Vacancy Details
Employer: Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited
Minimum Requirements:
Essential:
- Grade 12 - Matric or Senior Certificate and a B. Comm, B.Eng., BSC Eng, BSC Informatics or related degree.
- Minimum 5 years of experience as an SAP ABAP developer.
- SAP certification
- 5 – 8 years’ experience in a similar role
Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Development Strategy:
- Ensure alignment of team skills with current and future technological and business requirements.
- Utilize Information Technology solutions to optimize cost management and enhance business profitability.
- Set and supervise target and budget goals, maintaining rigorous cost control across functional areas.
- Cultivate an IT service-oriented culture fostering relationships, innovation, and exceptional client service.
- Manage design, delivery, and ongoing improvement of solutions to enhance automation and innovation levels.
- Lead by example, setting coding standards and inspiring others to follow suit.
- Demonstrate proficiency in software development methodologies, effectively documenting and handing over solutions for support.
- Lead discussions on adopting new technologies and improving internal coding standards.
- Promote best practices and innovation through critical assessment and challenging of design assumptions.
Project Management:
- Take ownership of assigned tasks and projects, ensuring alignment with business expectations.
- Communicate effectively, willing to work overtime to meet project deadlines.
- Implement IT projects aligned with strategic objectives, utilizing specific performance metrics for progress tracking.
- Implement business improvements based on thorough data analysis and benchmarking.
- Oversee IT projects to ensure timely implementation and effectiveness.
- Prepare business cases for project and technology updates.
Stakeholder Partnerships:
- Ensure stakeholders understand and are trained in the effective use of delivered solutions.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders, contributing to business requirements.
- Foster a conducive environment for software development and mentoring.
- Report on project deliverables to keep stakeholders informed and ensure deadlines are met.
- Cultivate objective relationships with stakeholders, providing input to business requirements.
Team Management:
- Provide technical guidance and ensure adherence to development standards.
- Mentor junior and intermediate developers, reviewing code and ensuring logical soundness.
- Promote a culture of accountability, innovation, and performance management.
- Assist in setting objectives and tracking progress.
- Ensure efficient resolution of customer IT services within agreed timelines.
- Manage team leave and ad-hoc duties.
- Facilitate creation of accountable, full-service teams meeting stakeholder needs.
- Support peers through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching.
- Plan and manage team performance, skills development, diversity, talent, and culture.
Competencies:
- Cognitive Skills - Makes timely, informed decisions that consider the facts, goals, constraints, and risks. Identifies, collects, and organises data for analysis and decision-making.
- Business Acumen - Presents a clear vision about what needs to be achieved. Understands and analyse current position and resources required to execute.
- Communication Skills - Communicates in a confident and forceful manner to achieve the required goal without being aggressive.
- Interpersonal Skills - Builds constructive working relationships characterised by a high level of acceptance, cooperation, and mutual respect.
- Quality Orientation - Acts as a role model to others and talks to others about the need for high standards and quality. Develops systems and procedures to manage data and info and shares these with others.
- Self-Management Skills - Proactive, resolves problems and queries independently. Working under pressure. Accountable & Dependable. Maintains composure in highly stressful or adverse situations. Displays emotional resilience and the ability to withstand pressure on an on-going basis. Manage personal development to enhance competencies.
- Leadership Skills - Enables cooperative and productive group interactions. Leads a conversation in a group. Provides direction and guidance to a group of people and to encourage cooperation between team members to attain an objective.
- Management - Manages team in ways that improve their ability to succeed.
- Technical skills - Basic computer skills (Word, Excel, and Outlook), SAP ABAP.
Special conditions of employment:
- South African Citizen
- MIE, clear criminal, and credit
- Valid driver’s license and own reliable transport
Remuneration and benefits:
- Market-related salary
- Medical aid
- Provident fund
- Staff account
ONLY SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN CONTACTED WITHIN TWO WEEKS AFTER THE CLOSING DATE, PLEASE CONSIDER YOUR APPLICATION AS UNSUCCESSFUL.
Dis-Chem Pharmacies is an equal opportunity employer. Dis-Chem’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process aligned to Dis-Chem's Employment Equity & Transformation Strategy. Dis-Chem actively supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities.
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