Product Specialist - HQ Sandton at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Work closely with the scrum master, scrum team, and external customers and stakeholders to deliver technology products that our customers love and that create value for our business
• Manage multiple projects on multiple sites by ensuring clear delegation of duties and effective communication
• Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure and communicate effectively to a wide range of stakeholders
• Act as the point of contact for identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving operational and technical issues during project implementation
• Provide hands-on support in creating, testing, and refining applications to ensure alignment with operational objectives
• Continuously monitor the performance of logistics planning systems and processes post-implementation, identifying and addressing areas for improvement
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions
• Accurately document requirements, testing results and training materials
• Work with the technical development and operations team to improve planning products
• Define training methodologies and roll out strategies
• Support the business throughout the change process
• Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings and performing requirements analysis. Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports
• Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements
• Performing user acceptance testing
• Train and support users throughout roll out and post go live

Minimum Requirements:

• Proven track record delivering projects within agreed timelines
• Technology related B Degree or business-related qualification advantageous
• Well-articulated and structured communication skills is a mandate as the person will be pivotal in communicating with business from across the globe and development team.
• Understanding of ABInBev Logistics and Planning principles
• Retains the pulse of domain or business area by remaining connected to various stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Strong understanding of Agile & Scrum with a proven track record of delivery
• Business Analysis skills
• Requirement documentation and elicitation