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eCommerce Operations Consultant
The ecommerce operations consultant will work with Javelin Group clients to develop fulfilment, delivery, supply chain and contact centre strategies and support the implementation of recommendations as required. Using their in-depth experience of ecommerce operations experience and systems knowledge they will provide expert input into systems design, process improvement, implementation and commercial due diligence.
Typical projects are 1-3 months in duration, with a combination of on-site and office-based work. Some travel will be required, and some work away from home. The work is typically done in 2–5 person teams.
Education
Degree at 2.1 level and above. Candidates with a good academic background will be considered if they can demonstrate relevant industry experience.
Work Experience
- Experience of ecommerce operations for a retailer, a service provider, or as a consultant
- Successful project delivery experience
- Experience of process mapping, research and analysis
- Experience of report/presentation preparation and delivery
Person Requirements
- Practical, proactive and implementation focused
- Exceptionally bright, articulate, literate and numerate
- Excellent interpersonal and client facing skills and professional at all times
- Self-motivated, disciplined and able to work on own initiative
- Strong analytical skills coupled with strong attention to detail
- Confident use of MS PowerPoint, Excel and Word
- Good team player
- Foreign language skills desirable but not essential
- Located within commuting distance of London (or prepared to relocate)
Salary and Benefits
The salary will be highly competitive. Substantial bonuses and share options are available. The company also offers health and life insurance.
Please apply with CV to recruitment@javelingroup.com and include the job title in the subject line of the email.
Retail Technology Consultant
Working closely alongside highly experienced Javelin Group technology consultants you will be part of a team delivering assignments with leading retail and brand clients, advising them on technology strategy and technology package selection in support of achieving their business and IT objectives. The role will involve gathering, analysing and presenting information on business requirements, processes, application functionality, cost and the impacts of these on organisation and existing technology. The consultant will normally work as part of a 2 to 3 person team, under leadership of a technology consulting manager or director. Your responsibilities will include:
- Understanding a client’s business, its ambitions, drivers, processes and constraints and gather information about its current portfolio and IT applications and systems.
- Using a mix of market-leading tools and techniques developed by Javelin Group and unique approaches tailored to the assignment, you will help the client choose the optimum technology solutions and design the implementation programmes required to deliver the change.
- Developing PowerPoint reports and present the contents to a senior audience of IT and business professionals within the client up to director level.
- While most of your time will be spent discussing and analysing major applications, and you will also be required to describe, underlying infrastructure and other IT terms such as: outsourcing, data centre, requirements capture, as-is and to-be architecture, PCI-DSS, ERP, SOA, RDBMS, ITIL, ESB, HTTP, LAMP, Java, agile, waterfall.
Projects are typically 1 to 6 months in duration with a combination of on-site and office-based work. Travel to client sites is an important aspect of the work and you should expect to be staying away from home approximately 1 to 2 nights a week and occasionally more intensively than that.
Education
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a numerate subject or subject requiring the analysis of a significant quantity of data and the drawing of conclusions.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Previous experience of working in an application development or systems integration role within an enterprise IT department, ideally in a retailer. Alternatively you may be working between business departments and the IT department to provide specifications, direction and management of systems changes required
- Experience of business technology and how it impacts on a company’s ability to operate and a solid understanding of the core components of an enterprise’s technology portfolio
- Able to describe major trends in ecommerce and participate in a discussion of how they impact large retailers
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build good client relationships
- Engaging, confident, articulate and literate. Fluency in spoken and written English
- Professional at all times in personal appearance, language and manner
- Quick thinking with high attention to detail in both written and numeric work
- Ability to learn new concepts and apply them
- Strong desire to work in retail consulting
- Confident user of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Fluency in another European language
- Understanding of retail applications and retail business processes
- Understanding of ecommerce technology and business processes
- Experience in a consulting role (internal or external)
- Experience of business analysis and/or project management
Please apply with CV to recruitment@javelingroup.com and include the job title in the subject line of the email.