Senior Consultant – Commercial Solutions needed 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 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 DP World clients and revenue.
• Overseer 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

Qualifications Required:

• B.Eng Industrial or BCom Logistics (Honours) or BCom 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)
• The ability to inspire, motivate and direct individuals to take ownership of-, and achieve desired outputs.
• Establishes an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect between team members.
• Clearly articulates a goal and purpose to ensure alignment of team members towards a desired objective.
• Manages performance of team members.
• Provides performance feedback to team members in a constructive manner
• The ability to ensure high standards of accuracy, quality, and service delivery to meet and exceed client expectations.
• Applies knowledge, tools, and technical expertise to support value creation, tailoring it to the specific needs of the client.
• Thorough understanding of capabilities offered by DP World.
• Understanding of financial and management accounting (commercial models).
• Demonstrated understanding of supply chain costs, cost drivers and cost efficiencies levers.
• Ability to review business analysis process and deliverables in order to recommend improvements.
• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Creating & delivering professional presentations.
• Written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
• Time management: comfortable working under pressure with stringent deadlines and complex deliverables.
• Flexible hours to achieve deliverables (sometimes required to work in addition to/outside of normal business hours).
• Plan, manage and account for own time according to tasks’ priorities with a high attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Able to think logical and objectively with the ability to be innovative in approach and solution design / problem solving.
• Willingness to travel (predominantly Africa, ad-hoc).