Senior Consultant, Commercial Solutions at DP World

Job Function

• To provide expertise, advice, support, report on, and lead large scale / 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.
• Oversee 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 management.

Requirements
Qualifications Required:

• B.Eng Industrial or B.Com Logistics (Honours) or B.Com Supply Chain Management (Honours) [NQF level 7 or higher].

Experience and Skills Required:

• 8 - 12 years' relevant work experience (operations and / or solution design role).
• Proven track record of leadership and managing project teams.
• Proven track record of delivering successful projects.
• Demonstrated understanding of supply chain costs, cost drivers and cost efficiencies levers.
• Willingness to travel (predominantly Africa, ad-hoc).