Jobs at UnoCasa Limited

Job Summary

• Support the strategy development process for Foods & Agri businesses and monitor implementation of strategic initiatives
• Support development of new businesses
•  Identify operational improvement opportunities and recommend initiatives to close gaps

Key duties and responsibilities
Strategy Development & Execution:

• Support BU management in articulating strategic aspiration and work with them to develop means of achieving the aspiration based on BU current position and resource constraints
• Support BU management in developing execution plans for strategic initiatives, assigning owners for the initiatives, and tracking implementation and impact
• Research and analyse macro, industry and competitive trends and communicate to the Executive Management Team

Business Development:

• Develop business case and investment rationale for identified opportunities
• Support negotiation of various commercial aspects related to the new business
• Transition to project team once investment decision has been taken
• Monitor project implementation and help unblock bottlenecks as required

Improvement initiatives

• Assess past performance trends and identify root causes for under performance
• Conduct detailed diagnostics to identify operational improvement initiatives
• Provide short-term support to get initiatives off the ground as needed
• Track and monitor initiative implementation

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
• At least five years’ work experience with reputable organisations
• At least two years strategy consulting experience with a global consulting firm (experience with a tier one consulting firm will be an added advantage)

Job Summary

• Manage the SAP BW project to deliver scope within time and budget
• Drive consumption of SAP BW reports across relevant user groups
• Prioritise Business Intelligence needs across the group and work with technical team to deliver these

Key Duties and Responsibilities
Project Management:

• Manage ongoing SAP BW projects to deliver agreed scope in terms of reports and analytics
• Provide regular progress update to internal customers and help the technical project team to overcome any bottlenecks
• Coordinate interaction between business, technical project team, and IT department
• Manage transition of projects into production environment

Change Management & Support:

• Drive consumption of developed BI reports / analytics through advocacy
• Work with report users to identify potential discrepancies in reports and identify root cause of these discrepancies
• Work with BU management to drive timely / accurate data entry and data clean-up to ensure integrity of BI reports
• Collate issues (bugs, minor enhancements) from users and pass to technical team for resolution

Requirements Gathering:

• Work with the business to identify new BI requirements and jointly prioritise these
• Work with users to develop detailed specification including fields, layout, calculations, validation, access, etc.
• Interface with technical team to kick-off development of new requirements
• Drive vendor selection process if development is to be outsourced to an external vendor

Key Requirements
Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• At least five years’ work experience in data management, business intelligence, or related functions
• Technical certification in a related subject will be an added advantage

Skills and Behaviors:

• Ability to work independently
• Strong business analysis and consulting skills
• Strong process and project management skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Quick learner with demonstrated ability to grasp the dynamics of an industry
• Ability to communicate effectively with middle- and top-management
• Excellent business writing and presentation skills
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite