R&d Specification and Data Management
1 week ago
Location: Durban
MAIN JOB PURPOSE:
Overview:
The Beauty, Wellbeing and Personal Care category brings purpose, joy and delightful experiences to consumers and customers across Africa by delivering exciting and value product offerings. Having high quality data that is globally compliant and readily reportable is key to R&D to service business needs.
Seeking a dynamic and flexible team player who has a keen eye for detail and data analytics methodology to manage compliance and governance of BWPC R&D data lifecycle in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and other business systems. The incumbent must bring the necessary technical skill / expertise, passion for winning and project management rigor to partner cross functional teams to lead end to end data compliance and governance and provide R&D teams with data insights for growth.
JOB SUMMARY
- Spec creation support to R&D teams in the execution and delivery of category program (Innovation, Renovation, Value Improvement, SC support)
- Lead delivery of specification hierarchy cleansing for BWPC R&D Africa
- Provide leadership for data management aspects in project scoping, risk evaluation, data change management and reporting.
- Proactive Data Quality review and reporting of BWPC R&D categories
- PLM Expertise and Super user support to R&D end users.
- Support for business audits on R&D data compliance
- Training Data Governance areas and PLM Ways of Working to R&D end users in BWPC
- Manage end to end R&D data interfaces in all systems inked to PLM (AWS, BPM / NeCO, SAP ECC, PIT)
- Partner with Global Digital R&D (DRD) teams to lead Africa input into Digital tool design, change impact assessment, risk mitigation and execution)
- Trouble shooting and Root Cause Analysis of business queries relating to specification, recipes and Bills of Materials (BOM’s)
- Fully operation with all relevant R&D and business digital tools that use R&D data,
- Be a leader and change catalyst for use of R&D digital tools in project delivery
- Partner with category teams in creation of new digital tools and R&D BWPC data insights that support delivery of growth in Africa
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- BTech / BSc Degree in the field of Maths / Science / Engineering IT / Data / Analytics.
- Experience and skills required:
- PLM or equivalent data management systems
- Data mining
- SAP (understanding would be beneficial)
- Demonstrate understanding of project management to realize the order, importance, and impact of appropriate project activities
- Knowledge about management of databases, Power BI, data analytics, reporting and interpretation of results.
- Understand consumer, business, and category needs and the relationship to data use and execution
- Preferable experience in leading teams / people and managing projects.
- An entrepreneurial mindset is beneficial
Experience in working with multi-functional, multi-located and multi-cultural teams
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