Job Function
To provide expertise, advice, support, report on, and lead complex supply chain solution projects that optimises organisational value chain integration and performance, underpinned by Imperial/DP World's supply chain and logistics capabilities.
The Senior Consultant is experienced in leading cross-functional teams, conducting analysis, providing recommendations and guidance towards the delivery of strategic multiple large-scale supply chain solutions projects. Expected to work closely with clients to understand their business needs, identify opportunities for improvement and design solutions to optimise their supply chains. Manages and balance the requirements between business objectives and project requirements. Recognise trends, patterns, or themes in complex data, and leverages experience to solve complex problems. Understands the importance of project governance, stakeholder management, commercial models, and managing project teams.
Key performance areas
- Grow Imperial/DP World clients and revenue
- Overseer quality of analysis and solution team's outputs
- Design the test methodology and success criteria for value-chain improvement solutions across multiple capabilities and regions
- Facilitate cross functional business improvement and solutions development workshops
- Obtain and document client requirements to enable design of integrated fit-for-purpose business solutions that improve client's value chain
- Support management of prospective client pipeline by evaluating and qualifying solution leads
- Project team performance managementNature of position
- Permanent
- B.Eng Industrial or BCom Logistics (Honours) or BCom Supply Chain Management (Honours) [NQF level 7 or higher]Skills and experience required
- 8+ years' relevant work experience (operations and/or solution design role)
- Applies supply chain management knowledge, solves problems in the supply chain using this knowledge.
- Proven track record of leadership and managing project teams
- The ability to inspire, motivate and direct individuals to take ownership of-, and achieve desired outputs.
- Establishes an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect between team members.
- Clearly articulates a goal and purpose to ensure alignment of team members towards a desired objective.
- Manages performance of team members.
- Provides performance feedback to team members in a constructive manner
- Proven track record of delivering successful projects
- The ability to ensure high standards of accuracy, quality, and service delivery to meet and exceed client expectations.
- Applies knowledge, tools, and technical expertise to support value creation, tailoring it to the specific needs of the client.
- Thorough understanding of capabilities offered by Imperial/DP World.
- Understanding of financial and management accounting (commercial models).
- Demonstrated understanding of supply chain costs, cost drivers and cost efficiencies levers.
- Ability to review business analysis process and deliverables in order to recommend improvements.
- Exceptional analytical skills.
- Creating & delivering professional presentations.
- Written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
- Time management: comfortable working under pressure with stringent deadlines and complex deliverables. Flexible hours to achieve deliverables (sometimes required to work in addition to/outside of normal business hours).
- Plan, manage and account for own time according to tasks' priorities with a high attention to detail.
- Self-motivated and proactive.
- Able to think logical and objectively with the ability to be innovative in approach and solution design / problem solving.
- Willingness to travel (predominantly Africa, ad-hoc).Personal and workplace competencies
- Business acumen: The ability to understand financial and economic concepts and principles; to identify, create and/or exploit opportunities, and evaluate business growth and sustainability.
- Client centricity: Invest in building relationships, understand client requirements and ensure high standards of quality outputs. Ensure continuous tracking of trends, market information and development to meet future client needs.
- Improvement orientation: The ability to explore, identify, learn and implement new and creative ways to improve processes, value chain effectiveness, service delivery and cost optimisation.
- Interpersonal effectiveness: Establish effective interpersonal relations with key stakeholders to enable functional integration. Establish a culture that values and embraces diversity and inclusiveness of people and ideas.
- Strategic orientation: Analyse and evaluate the commercial environment and business factors through systematic processes and incorporating these insights towards building a viable operational strategy at a multiple value chain level. Develops and implements solutions at a functional level to address actions emanating from insights, either to mitigate critical risk or capitalise on opportunity.
- Supply Chain Management
- Solution Design
- Analytics
- Team Management
- Time Management
- 5 to 10 years Supply Chain Control
Equity statement
Imperial is committed to Transformation, which encompases Employment Equity, Diversity and Inclusion when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applicants.
Should you not have received a response within 4 weeks of the closing date of this advert, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Employer & Job Benefits
- Medical Aid
- Retirement Fund
