EDI Project Manager
Summary
Manages EDI projects for logistics customers, implementing and maintaining automated document exchanges (orders, invoices, etc.) via secure connections and structured messages.
As Project manager in the EDI team, you will take in charge the implementation projects of new EDI flows with customers, take part of the maintenance of existing EDI flows and support users & counterpart teams on incidents.
What is EDI?
EDI “Electronic Data Interchange” consists in designing & implementing messages that allow automatic transmission from ours or customer’s system and integration in customer’s or ours system of data contained in pdf documents as : orders, order confirmations, dispatch advices, invoices, certificates. Data are held in a structured message & transmitted via a set-up secured connection.
It implies for each flow to fully understand how we are working with the customer, which are the specificities to be taken into account and to make sure throughout the implementation process that all is well taken into account. You will also learn to understand each EDI standard and type of connections.
We work closely with the commercial team, the customer EDI teams, with our back office assistance teams. We work as a team with our EDI subcontractor in an agile mode with regular frequent meetings and all collaborative means possible such as hangout, Drive, Smartsheet. Team language is English.
Agility is our keyword.
Responsibilities
Take in charge EDI implementations for new customers
- Organize project with stakeholders
- Review business processes & design target messages to implement
- Drive project with all stakeholders
- Design & accept implemented solutions
Perform change management
Manage evolutions for EDI integrations
- Analyze current process, gather business requirements, propose solutions
- Produce the functional specifications documents for IT and suppliers, perform the user acceptance tests of the developed mappings, deploy the solution, communicate, train the users
Manage the functional support for EDI integrations
- Support the commercial team to identify the cause of errors, and assist if necessary
- Collaborate with IT support (level 1) & customer IT teams to ensure that all the incidents raised are correctly handled
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, IT, Business Analysis, or a related field
- Strong technical knowledge of EDI; experience with SAP is considered an asset
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience
- Fluent in English (required); knowledge of French and/or German is a plus