Application Development Lead

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The Application Development Lead role combines leadership and technical expertise by focusing on coaching and developing team members, ensuring expectations are met for both technical execution as well as effective and timely communication, and providing performance feedback. This position also plays a hands-on technical lead role in Finance OPM development areas. This role exemplifies Schreiber Foods' culture and values by fostering a positive and inclusive environment.

What you’ll do:

People Leadership:

• Team Development: Build a higher performing, strong, and capable team by recruiting, training, and mentoring team members.
• Fostering Collaboration: Encourage cross-team collaboration to drive cross-training and efficiencies in the team's support efforts.
• Performance Management: Setting clear goals and expectations for each partner, providing regular feedback, and conducting performance reviews to ensure continuous improvement.
• Building a Data-Driven Culture: Promoting a culture that values data-driven decision-making and ensuring that employees at all levels embrace and utilize analytics in their daily operations.
• Leadership by Example: Demonstrating strong leadership skills by being a role model in using data to drive decisions and encouraging innovative thinking within the team.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engaging with key stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure that the support teams are delivering results that support business objectives in an effective and efficient manner.

Behaviors & Culture:

• Being a partner centric leader who is growing the skills and capabilities of his or her team
• Ensure the values and culture of Schreiber Foods is represented across the team
• Ensure equity through diverse teams that are inclusive and value different ideas and perspectives
• Provide avenues for partners to grow and develop, allowing for stretch assignments in roles with timely and adequate coaching and feedback
• Bring outside perspectives to ensure that a global mindset is created on the team
• Set an example for caring, partnership, ownership, excellence, and simplicity.
• Demonstrate a mindset of continuous learning, being curious, taking risks, delivering quality results, and leveling up the team.

Delivering for the Business:

• Technical leadership & execution in Oracle Process Manufacturing
• Implementation and Support in Oracle Process Manufacturing
• Facilitate and ensure each development team has sufficient members trained to sustain coverage
• Use business and system knowledge to drive processes improvements
• Work with Team Leader(s) and Product Managers(s) on resource management
• Facilitate cross functional trainings as part of resource development plan
• Reporting development metrics across Application Support teams
• Facilitate collaboration with Development teams and incident delegation across teams to improve end user support experience

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, Business Administration or related field
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology roles (8+ years of experience in Oracle Process Manufacturing, 5+ years of experience in people management)
• Strong technical background, including knowledge of system architectures, development tools and processes
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated interpersonal and teaming skills
• Ability to drive towards results
• Solid understanding of business concepts
• Strong project management skills
• High energy
• Ability to motivate to improve performance and hold partners accountable

Technical Skills: (Describe any special skill and/or competency requirements applicable to this position.)
 

• Strong process manufacturing (OPM) knowledge and concepts.
• Hands-on implementation/Support experience in Oracle Process Manufacturing Modules like OPM Financial, Process Execution, Product Development, Process Manufacturing, Process Quality, Inventory, WIP & BOM modules. Any additional knowledge of Procurement, Warehouse Management Systems, Order Management, Planning, modules will be added advantage.
• Understanding of standard and average costing methods, cost rollups, and cost management in a process manufacturing environment.
• Deep understanding of creation of formulas, recipes, Ingredient Picking Workbench, Production Scheduler Workbench, standard/average costing, cost rollups, rules setup etc.
• Ability to relate the product functionality to business processes, and thus offer implementation advises to customers on how to meet their various business scenarios using Oracle Process Manufacturing Modules.
• Strong technical debugging skills using SQL, PLSQL, Reports etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Leadership Skills:

• Ability to manage personnel performance and career development of direct and indirect reports
• Ability to influence and gain alignment
• Ability to provide open, honest, and timely feedback to other.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• Proven experience coaching and growing other junior team members, software developers
• Proven experience in configuration and trouble shooting
• Experience with complex business systems and processes across commercial, supply chain, operations and financial domains

Our Preference:

• Experience with agile scrum
• Experience with FMCG/Food/Dairy Industries
• Oracle Certified: Manufacturing or SCM Certification