Solution Manager Commercial Inventories

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

As a Solution Manager, you are the referent for the commercial inventories applications and solutions.  

You define and establish target solution, starting from an initial conceptual vision and evolving into a more concrete solution specification. You make high-level design choices according to the business strategy; dictate the standards, guidelines, best practices, and patterns and identify impacts on the information system. You will have to understand business requirements, prepare or review specifications, work effectively with other functional and technical team members, make recommendations, and converge all requirements into one/several solutions.

When specifications are set and solutions defined, you will also ensure the delivery of the solution hand-in-hand with the rest of the team.

In this position, you will have three main roles covering a large scope of responsibilities:

You are the gatekeeper of the commercial inventories processes and it integration with the rest of the ecosystem :

• Understand the business needs and translate into a solution.
• With other team members, you design cross processes flows.
• Work closely and confidently with various departments.
• You are ensuring maintenance and enhancement of your process.

You act as trusted partner for long term & continuous improvement:

• Manage business relationship to define target priorities and business value.
• Ensure communication and be responsible of oneself indicators (measurable KPIs).
• Animate, inform, communicate, enhance, anticipate and perform with the other domains to ensure end-to-end design.
• Elaborate action plans for continuous improvements of the solution and solving recurrent incidents.  

As a summary:

As commercial inventories solution owner, you will be ensuring :

• Business Process Expertise: In-depth knowledge of the business processes under his scope and knowledge sharing with other team members.
• Vision and Strategy definition: defining the vision for the processes / solutions under his scope, ensuring it aligns with the company's strategic objectives.
• Design Oversight : Design / solutioning choices are aligned with the defined product vision and meet the business requirements and adheres to SAP best practices.
• Gate keeping / Quality assurance: Change process is followed and the predefined criteria are met before move to production (successful testing, successful NRT, impact communication & change management conducted, transition to RUN performed).

QUALIFICATIONS TO PERFORM THE JOB

Experience (describe basics and preferred qualifications)

 IT Skills

• [Must] Experience in IT best practices.
• [Must] Medium experience in SAP MM-IM (Inventory Management).
• [Must] Basic experience in SAP Integration (IDoc, Web Service, etc.)
• [Plus] Basic experience in SAP PP (Production Planning)
• [Plus] Basic experience with test campaign executions & automation tool.
• [Plus] Basic experience with JIRA and ServiceNow.
• [Plus] Basic experience on SAP BTP, SAC and Datasphere

Business Skills

• [Must] Medium experience on inventory management business processes understanding.
• [Plus] Basic experience in soft commodity trading practices.

Soft Skills

• [Must] Great relationship and ability to work with multiple teams.
• [Must] Ability and flexibility to work independently as well as in a team.
• [Must] Ability to learn fast and adapt to new solutions.
• [Must] Ability to demonstrate Critical Thinking.
• [Must] Strong analysis, synthesis & communication capacity (written & oral).
• [Must] Flexibility/adaptability in a quick changing background scenario & no uncomfortable feelings in front of ambiguity.
• [Must] Business customer focused and high proactivity.
• [Must] Analytical and problem-solving Skills
• [Must] Be fluent in English, written and spoken.
• [Must] Be able to work under pressure and tight deadlines.

 Skills & competencies /Specific knowledge/ Abilities (including any physical demands)

See above

 Minimum years of experience: 10 years proven experience in IT projects and in an international multi-cultural environment.

 Reporting Line: Service Manager based in France

 Languages skills:

English (Fluent)

Additional Information for the job

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We offer

• A workplace culture that embraces diversity and inclusivity
• Opportunities for Professional Growth and Development
• Employee Recognition Program
• Employee Wellness Programs - Confidential access to certified counselors for employee and eligible family members, along with monthly wellness awareness sessions.
• Certified Great Place to Work