WMS Consultant

applications: peter.vandergrinten@uwv.nl •

Job description

We are looking for an IT professional that acts as a (senior) functional consultant in Business IT solution design. You are an expert in the areas of WMS, TMS and EDI. Working together with our Sales/Engineering and Operations teams, you are responsible for providing the best IT solution, optimizing the balance between cost and quality. Additional to providing these IT solutions, you have also the beautiful task to realize them. In this realization phase, you combine your project management skills with your detailed application and logistical knowledge, to guarantee a smooth implementation. You communicate sound and clear and stand for a high-quality result in a dynamic environment. Cooperation with internal IT specialists and business specialists is key. You will report to the manager of the Business IT Solutions team. Responsibilities • Collect, formalize and validate functional and non-functional business IT requirements; • Design functional specifications, starting from defined business requirements; • Identify stakeholders and their needs; • Present the IT solution, including cost / benefit; • Create and manage a master test plan; • Design, organize and monitor the overall IT project plan; • Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual project tasks; • Identify project risks and define action plans to mitigate; • Communicate project progress to all relevant parties; • Identify business advantages and improvements of adopting emerging IT technologies. Skills Knowledge (Knows / aware of / familiar with): • Any WMS, at a detailed level of configuration; • TMS and EDI (secondary); • Logistic warehouse processes in 3PL-environments; • Functional specification designing; • How business processes are integrated and their dependency upon IT applications; • The different sorts of tests (functional, integration, performance, usability, stress etc.); • Structured project management methodologies (e.g. Waterfall); • Existing and emerging technologies in the area of WMS, TMS and EDI; • Affinity with IT equipment and infrastructure;  Knowledge of SQL and reporting techniques. Other requirements: • Higher/academic working and thinking level, acquired by education or working experience; • Excellent oral and written communication in English; • Able to hand over knowledge to others; • Structured way of working, be able to set priorities; • Strong personality, motivated, convincing and stress resistant; • Self-sustaining team player; • Pragmatic and flexible; • Result oriented, sense of responsibility, take ownership; • A healthy, critical attitude; • Prepared to work in an international environment at different locations, if needed abroad. Willing to travel, no 9 to 5 mindset. What we offer: We offer a fulltime position in an interesting and challenging environment, where you have the opportunities to develop your own initiatives and to work independently within a team of committed colleagues.