Job Vacancies at Mercedes-Benz

About the Job

The Opportunity

• We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Executive Secretary to join our team. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the core focus of this role is to provide administrative support to the CEO & Executive Management Team; as well as offer business administration to ensure professional and effective running of the office in compliance to the Company's related policies.

Functional Overview: Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Support with meeting arrangements for the CEO and the Executive Team.
• Support with diary management: ensure that all appointment requests, events and changes are noted accurately. Ensure that the CEO/Executive Team have all relevant correspondence prior to the appointments.
• Effectively coordinate meeting logistics. This includes meeting packs and supporting documentation. In addition, provide status of invitations and replies as well as road maps when required.
• Travel arrangements: effectively administer travel arrangements in line with company policies and procedures. All correspondence including itinerary to be given to the CEO/Executive Team, and or other relevant stakeholders within agreed time frames.
• Office supplies: administer office supplies for all the respective divisions in line with company policies and procedures. Approved office supplies to be purchased within allocated budget and according to company policies and procedures.
• Administer/payment of purchase requisitions/invoices for all the respective divisions.
• Customer/Stakeholder assistance: communicative assistance to be provided to internal/external customers when required. Ensuring that all requests are conveyed to the relevant stakeholder timeously and eloquently.
• Administer all expenditure claims, ensuring that all expenditure complies with company policies and procedures.
• Project Involvement: Supporting with coordinating, executing and initiating projects to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the set timeline.

What Qualities Are We Looking For?

• Our mission at MBFS SA is to provide a consistently outstanding brand and customer experience through outstanding preparation, attitude and teamwork. Our purpose is to create an effortless experience by providing ease and convenience in all our interactions with others.

In order to achieve our goals and be part of our team you will demonstrate the following key Attributes :

• Accuracy & Attention to detail
• Corporate values
• Customer service orientation
• Initiative & Process orientation
• In addition, we look for the demonstration of the following key Skills:
• Business writing
• Problem solving
• Computer literacy (MS Office)
• Time management
• Decisiveness & Negotiation
• Ability to establish relationships
• Events Coordination & multitasking
• General Office Administration
• Interpersonal skills & Vitality

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About the Job

Job Description

• We are looking for talented individuals in the SAP technical environment to support with a Mercedes-Benz Maintenance based product. This individual will also be responsible for managing BASIS related topics.

Job Requirements

• Management and support of SAP Clients, Transports, Users, Roles and Gateways
• System and Interface monitoring of a multi-tier SAP landscape with multiple integration points for ABAP, Java and other SAP/non-SAP systems
• Responsible for user management (Examples: User creation/changes; Role management; Housekeeping; End user support; Governance; LDAP, IDM)
• Responsible for Printer and Job Management (Examples: Printer Creation/Changes; Installations; Job Creation/Planning/ Checking; Consulting)
• Responsible for monitoring (Examples: RFC; Logs; Queues; Jobs; PI Channels; IDOCs; AIF; SolMan)
• Responsible for shared 3rd party tasks (Examples: SharedPI; Intense support; Transports; SAP OSS; Virtual Forge; EDC; Axway CFT)
• Ensure innovative solutions align and support strategic implementation according to overall business strategy
• Manage and evaluate innovation pipeline assisting strategic decision-making and Go-to-Market process
• Design, research, develop, analyse and suggest new concepts as well as strategies
• Lead and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types
• Manage and attain customer expectations and ensure delivery to fulfil expectations
• Exercise decision-making and independent judgment while being aligned with customers and management
• Promote innovations to support business requirements through activities that test, pilot and implement innovative concepts for optimal customer experience
• Manage ideas from design stage through to implementation
• Roll out and analyse the effectiveness of initiatives that leverage multiplatform technologies
• Initiate, develop and maintain a range of working relationships, within IT, the business and CoC
• Perform all outputs in compliance with the Company's Integrity Codes & SHEQ requirements
• Perform delegated SHEQ tasks and duties and Inform superiors about deviations

Knowledge:

• Experience with NetWeaver Fiori/Gateway, Solution Manager, Web Dispatcher, Business Objects
• Experience using SAP ERP 6.0 and SAP Solution Manager 7.2
• Good Linux, Oracle and HANA knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to foster an environment for ideation, prototyping and production
• Demonstrated business acumen to take from design to implementation and preferably experience scaling a concept
• Must have IT Development and Systems Knowledge
• Experience with software development methodologies and practices (Agile, Scrum, etc.)
• Experience in Data Analysis and Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Must have an excellent ability to multi-task effectively working on several projects synchronously
• Experience in rolling out initiatives that leverage multiplatform technologies
• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally
• Ability to perform the minimum required physical and mental requirements of the function
• Working Model
  • Knowledge and application of agile project management methods (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and tools (e.g. Azure DevOps); DevOps concepts and tools; innovative methods like design thinking.
• Security
  • Knowledge of commercial and open-source security tools; computer and network security, authentication and security protocols; IT security architecture; testing techniques and tools.
• Customer Support
  • Knowledge of help desk and support services; incident and problem management
  • Experience with incident systems, ticketing systems (e.g. ServiceNow) and monitoring tools; in providing 24/7 on-call support for high-availability systems; customer relationship management

Outputs

• Liaise directly with various Mercedes-Benz manufacturing plants worldwide to provide product and service support.
• Manage and coordinate system upgrades/bug fixes and support with product testing.
• Design and model solutions for customer innovation and experience.
• Design, research, develop, analyse and suggest new concepts as well as strategies.
• Lead and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types concurrently.
• Coordinate all cross-functional activities, represent customers internally and collaborate with leaders in varied areas on allocation across projects and resource planning.
• Ensure to exercise decision-making and independent judgment while being aligned with customers and management.
• Promote innovations to support business requirements through activities that test, pilot and implement innovative concepts
• Roll out and analyse the effectiveness of initiatives that leverage multiplatform technologies
• Performing all outputs in compliance to the Company's Integrity Codes & S.H.E.Q requirements and to perform delegated S.H.E.Q. tasks and duties & to inform superior about deviations

Qualification and Experience

• Minimum NQF 7 – BSC/BCom/BTech in Information Technology or B. Eng. (Industrial Engineering) or relevant equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in IT/Manufacturing, or
• At least 6 months participation on our MBSA Graduate Development Programme

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About the Job

Job Description

• To improve efficiency, reduce waste, identify and implement solutions, meet project deadlines and accurately document the necessary requirements to be done in accordance with local / global strategic planning and standards in compliance to the Company's Integrity & Anti Bribery Codes, Conflict of Interest Policy & S.H.E. requirements and to perform delegated S.H.E. tasks and duties & to inform superior about deviations

The Job Requirements

• Experience in Quality Assurance processes, software lifecycle, testing, planning, execution and defect tracking
• Experience with test automation tools (Selenium, SoapUI, Postman, HP UFT, etc.)
• Experience in container technologies such as Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Demonstrated business acumen to take from design to implementation and preferably experience scaling a concept
• Must have IT Development and Systems Knowledge
• Experience with software development methodologies and practices (Agile, Scrum, etc.)
• Experience in Data Analysis and Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Must have an excellent ability to multi-task effectively working on several projects synchronously
• Experience in rolling out initiatives that leverage multiplatform technologies
• Ability to perform the minimum required physical and mental requirements of the function
• Must have an excellent ability to multi-task effectively working on several projects synchronously
• Experience in rolling out initiatives that leverage multiplatform technologies
• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally
• Ability to perform the minimum required physical and mental requirements of the function
• Experience with agile methodologies and with Linux OS
• Public cloud deployment models

Outputs

• Design, develop, implement and continuously improve software quality, testing tools, testing processes and testing environments through the application of appropriate testing methodologies and processes. Align test management strategy to industry best practices and frameworks.
• Design test plans on software applications based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Participation in various phases of the software development process activities including analysis, development and technical support .
• Implement, track and report on all testing activities to assure full coverage of functional and non-functional requirements
• Plan, design, create, execute and maintain test automation scripts that meet the business needs.
• Responsible for test planning, design and the creation of test data.
• Participate and provide feedback on any activities where QA practices and risks are to be considered from the writing of user stories, pre-development testing notes and executing QA testing activities in accordance to processes and quality guidelines so as to identify defects / quality concerns in projects.
• Coordinate and perform manual and automated testing activities and ensure a highly effective and well-documented test environment.
• Distribute test management knowledge to team members.
• Initiate, develop and maintain a range of working relationships, within IT, the business and CoC
• Perform all outputs in compliance with the Company's Integrity Codes & SHEQ requirements
• Perform delegated SHEQ tasks and duties and Inform superiors about deviations

Qualification and Experience

• Minimum NQF 7 – BSC/BCom/BTech in Information Technology or B. Eng. (Industrial Engineering) or relevant equivalent or At least 6 months participation on our MBSA Graduate Development Programme.
• Minimum 3+ Years’ experience in IT
• Experience with test automation tools.
• ISTQB/ISEB Certification will be advantageous.