Job Summary
A company that operates as a local touchpoint for a major global freight forwarding and logistics network, helping local businesses manage the complex movement of goods across national and international borders, is seeking a Business Analyst / Product Owner to transform company system from a shipment visibility portal into an intelligent, intuitive digital platform.Responsibilities:
Roadmap Ownership: Define, evolve, and execute the product roadmap for myJAS and related digital customer experiences.
Strategic Alignment: Partner with IT, Commercial, Operations, and senior leadership to align product strategy with business goals.
Outcome-Focused Delivery: Prioritize initiatives based on customer value, adoption potential, business impact, and strategic importance—focusing on meaningful outcomes over feature requests.
Customer Insight: Deeply understand customer supply chain workflows, pain points, and digital expectations through direct engagement and data analytics.
Process Standardization: Analyze, redesign, and standardize business processes across global and local teams, ensuring cross-functional alignment.
Requirements Gathering: Capture user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements; build early consensus with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and operational leaders.
Intuitive Design: Champion a simple, modern customer experience across myJAS in collaboration with UI/UX designers.
Customer Advocacy: Participate in prototyping, user testing, and workflow reviews to simplify complex logistics processes.
Emerging Tech & AI: Evaluate practical use cases for AI (generative, agentic), automation, and predictive analytics (e.g., conversational shipment intelligence, proactive exception handling) alongside Engineering and Data teams.
Market Benchmarking: Monitor digital trends across freight forwarding (e.g., myDSV, DHLi, myKN) and broader B2B/SaaS sectors to identify key differentiators.
End-to-End Execution: Lead initiatives through the full lifecycle: discovery, design, build, test, launch, and continuous improvement.
Technical Collaboration: Partner with Architecture, Integration, Data, Cybersecurity, and third-party vendors. Coordinate dependencies with core enterprise systems (e.g., CargoWise, CRM, Finance).
Quality Assurance: Facilitate stakeholder workshops, write test scripts, lead functional testing, and coordinate release management.
Product Champion: Serve as the primary point of contact for myJAS across business and IT units, managing competing priorities and trade-offs.
Drive Adoption: Partner with Commercial and Customer Service teams to drive platform onboarding and active usage.
Training & Documentation: Produce clear user guides, process maps (BPM standards), and training materials; train champions and core users.
Value Tracking: Establish and track metrics (KPIs) covering active usage, digital transaction volume, self-service rates, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency gains.
Minimum Requirements:
5+ years in Digital Product Management, Business Analysis, Product Ownership, or Digital Transformation.
Proven experience managing customer-facing B2B digital products or platforms.
Strong grasp of Agile delivery, product discovery, backlog prioritization, analytics, and user journey mapping.
Functional understanding of APIs, cloud platforms, data integration, enterprise applications, and modern AI/automation concepts.
Excellent communication, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder management skills in a global, matrixed, and remote-friendly environment.
Product & Process: Product management software, MS Visio/BPM tools, basic SQL.
Collaboration & Productivity: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Teams, Zoom, and modern Agile management tools.
Preferred
Background in Freight Forwarding, Logistics, or Supply Chain Management (familiarity with shipment portals or CargoWise is a major advantage).
Knowledge of process improvement methodologies (Six Sigma/DMAIC), process-mapping tools (MS Visio), and basic data querying (SQL).
Multilingual skills (Spanish and/or Italian) and international business experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Logistics, Information Systems, or a related field.
Benefits:
Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)
IF you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to itcareers@hireresolve.za.com
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