Technology & Innovation Advisor at Society for Family Health (SFH)

Job Profile:

• The Technology & Innovation Adviser (TIA) plays a crucial role in driving innovation and success by spearheading initiatives for designing, development, security, infrastructure, testing and implementation of technological systems to drive process efficiency.
• The TIA provides multi-platform hardware and software support and identifies innovation opportunities around technological applications, fosters collaboration and partnerships, manages, and mitigates risks, and communicates and enables an innovation culture in the organization.

Job-role: The successful candidate will perform the following functions:

• Explore the industry for technology advances that are relevant for the organisation’s business; identifies innovation opportunities and follows through to develop the ideas in collaboration with business partners and external stakeholders.
• Innovate and articulate technology into the transportation and payment processes of 3PL activities
• Identify and execute initiatives for business processes improvement through the application of technology and more efficient use of resources.
• Managing and mitigating risks by creating robust risk management strategies and contingency plans to manage unexpected situations. Also ensures intellectual property is protected during the innovation process.
• Collaborate with relevant personnel to ensure all learnings are documented and used for subsequent projects.
• Data clean-up, management, and transformation on the various electronic data collection platforms for data quality improvement
• Manage the activities of the platform and the effective use of the software, resolve bottlenecks, and provide information appropriately, troubleshoot and manage the backend of the website.

Qualifications/Experience:

• BSC Computer Science, BSC Software engineering and or any other degree with any relevant certification.
• Four to seven years of relevant experience delivering digital/technology-enabled business innovative solutions and transformational change across industries, platforms, and lines of businesses within the supply chain or 3PL industries or equivalent experience as a management consultant.
• Demonstrable ability to evaluate, explore and implement digital/technological opportunities.
• Good experience leading project management including budgets and strategic shifts.
• A track record of designing and launching successful products and/or services (preferably in supply chain/logistics contexts).

Skills and competencies: 

• Highly organised with superior problem-solving and synthesis skills, strong presentation and communication skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Good knowledge of digital delivery in terms of product, technology, and people buy-in, supported by data driven insights.
• Comfortable facilitating project planning, generating critical insights and delivering effective communication.
• Strong people management, collaboration, and relationship management skills
• Strong negotiation skills and good understanding of risk management procedures
• Flexibility and adaptability