Job Description

Job Title: Assistant Manager - IT Transportation

Location: Bangalore

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BUSINESS CONTEXT AND MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Transportation is a key Supply Chain process and comprises critical steps of O2C, M2D and P2P processes such as shipments planning & execution and freight settlement, primarily over SAP and OTM systems.

In that space , the Transportation SME & Dev-ops manager is responsible for ensuring the delivery of Innovation into our landscapes is of high design quality, deliver projects on time and in full with in the agreed project timeline & budget, adherent to business needs, aligned to all global guidelines, introduced in a timely, affordable and sustainable manner, at acceptable risk to ongoing operations and consistent with long-term plans for the evolution of our key landscapes.

Accountabilities and responsibilities.

Drive the end to end delivery of all agreed IT-related projects for the Transportation area, from Feasibility phase to completion on time in full within agreed timeline & budget.

- In the Ideas phase, provide support to Business Engagement in driving clarity of business requirements, high level design, cost and timeline estimates to facilitate the production of high-quality charters

- Assist/Lead during Feasibility and Capability phases for the translation of business requirements into a functional specification and specific work packages for call-off from service design and service introduction functions

- Drive ensure the end to end project delivery with on-time and on-budget execution of application changes for all key projects and programmes with no or minimal impact to business & system resilience

- Ensure the Project Delivery is adhered to the Global Project delivery methodology, standard change & release management process.

Manage & ensure resource with right skill set is working to deliver the projects

Support the process excellence team and the Business partners to undertake Transportation innovation projects

Support the BAU issues and co-ordinate with the Support team and Business stakeholders to ensure the right response & resolution is provided for the issues.

Closely work with Process excellence team & Business Program Managers to get the right support from business on getting the required clarify on business requirements & through UAT execution on all the required business scenarios.

Support the Application Landscape team for the functional area, driving application convergence as required (Local
Regional
Global)

Help ensure agreed changes are correctly integrated with solutions in other functional areas

Help ensure Technical and Security standards established by S&T are implemented and adhered during design and implementation

Help ensure solution resilience and provide functional expertise on both technical and functional fixes/changes.

The specific areas of focus and responsibility for this role are:

Business Processes:

- Transport Planning (Bulk plan & shipment approval)

- Transport execution (appointment, tendering, reporting & track & trace)

- Freight calculation and settlement (in SAP)

Main Associated Technologies / Applications (current view):

- SAP ECC

- OTM (Oracle Transportation Management)

- PI (middle ware) / Mule soft (middleware)/ Solance (middleware)

- LBC (rate management system)

- Track & trace system

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIY

Lead a team of SMEs with appropriate levels of business analysis skills, IT technical expertise and project delivery experience

Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in Key Business stakeholders, Process excellence team, Geo IT, SME's from other application like SAP, PI & Mulesoft, Landscape, Change & RM team and with strategic suppliers and 3rd party IT service providers

Work with key stakeholders to build and maintain a strong governance process for Innovation to ensure high quality project and programme delivery

Support Business stakeholders and process excellence team in clarifying business requirements, developing appropriate high-level designs, costs and time estimates for the production of high-quality project Charters by the Business Engagement organisation.

Help co-ordinate and manage business IT projects in the ERP including minor enhancements for area of responsibility in an effective and efficient manner, delivering the best possible business value.

Help agree priority and own sequence of changes and linkage to specific releases; identify synergies between projects and change requests in similar process areas for more effective delivery.

Help drive simplification to support the lowest possible TCO for each component in the systems landscape.

Provide change impact assessment to drive scope of testing programme and improve quality and reduce risk/impact of change; ensure cross-functional design risks are identified and mitigated

Understand and interpret IT strategic architecture, ensure all projects follow the principles, guidelines and standards set out by the CTO Organization

Assist develop and maintain the roadmap for IT systems architecture change/refresh in line with destination architecture and aligned with business priorities for change projects and programmes

Help develop, maintain and enforce detailed design guidelines describing how each component of the IT landscape will be used

Help develop and review Quality-control business requirement documents (BRD's) generated by business process owner, to ensure appropriate completeness and clarity to drive strong functional specifications

Specify packages of work to be called-off from the individual service towers and other providers

Create and maintain project work packages based on business requirements documents

Agree project work packages with IT suppliers (external and internal) within agreed budgetary guidelines

Develop functional specification and conceptual design (developed by IT Service provider for each project or change/group of changes)

Participate in functional and technical design reviews (QA process) with strategic IT suppliers and/or other 3rd parties when/where appropriate

Perform post go-live reviews to ensure IT design and process issues are captured for learning and future improvement.

Deliver above responsibilities within an agreed financial charging structure and budget

DIRECT REPORTS

Project delivery & AM vendor partner team of ~20 members

KEY INTERFACES

Transportation Users and Stakeholders

Other Enterprise Solutions Teams

o Other SME (PI/Mules oft/SAP) and Project Teams

o Business Partner Team

Information Management and Analytics

Business Operations

Strategic IT Suppliers and their Unilever Management Teams

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Proven experience coordinating big bet projects and programmes.

Proven experience in coordinating and maintaining teams in a diverse and extended environment.

Appreciation of IT systems landscapes and impact of architecture decisions on quality and delivery.

Good knowledge of process area and IT solutions in area of responsibility.

Experience in the Application Development Life Cycle.

Experience with project management mythologies and tools.