Software Manager at the Place

The Place is a trademark of Smackers Limited. It is a profitable player in the QSR industry in Nigeria with great prospects and staff strength of +1400 employees. Currently, our operations span across 17 locations (15 stores and 4 central operation units) in Lagos, Nigeria, with rapid expansion plans to penetrate more locations in the short to medium term.

Our current management team consists of experienced hands with over 60 years of experience that spans industry as well as management consulting in foremost multinational professional services companies.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Plan, direct, and coordinate all activities related to development of business applications for the company.
• Articulate in detail the design, processes/ concepts for needed technology solutions; and manage supervise system integrators front-end, back-end and full-stack developers or off-the-shelf functional and technical implementation consultants to deliver
• In particular, specify, design and implement use of technology to provide better and efficient services to customers such as:
  • End to end online ordering and delivery (STP)
  • Multiple variations of customer reward/ loyalty concepts
  • Customer’s ability to place orders and making direct payments across multiple channels in different parts of the business, etc.
• On an ongoing basis, research on how restaurants in more advanced environments (such as the Western World) have deployed technology and make regular presentations to the CEO and executive team on potential value propositions for the company on this basis
• Review similar solutions across other industry players and use these learnings to detail what will create optimal value for the company
• Stay up to date with advances in technology and industry best practices
• Lead the implementation of analytics and business intelligence applications with capabilities such as:
  • Aging of product stays on display
  • Time interval from food request to delivery
  • Trends in customer purchase patterns and behavior, etc
• Implement and manage intranet, workflow and knowledge sharing solutions and other related business efficiency and productivity solutions
• Manage relationships with external application software vendors from point of initiation, solution delivery, service level management, issue resolution and termination.
• Familiar with the policies, procedures and technical issues related to software solution delivery.

Required Skills and Experience

• Must be familiar with modern programming languages, full-stack development, responsive web and mobile applications, coding and technology delivery processes
• Must possess exceptional troubleshooting skills and be able to assess complex applications.
• Proven experience of system analysis, design, development and implementation, and end user support.
• Industry knowledge from Hospitality Industry, Quick Service Restaurant, and Online delivery will be a plus.
• Must have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Range of 5 to 8 years of relevant experience
• Relevant Bachelor’s degree, or an advanced degree in a related field.
• Knowledge of Design Thinking / Human Centered Design will be a plus
• Knowledge and proven practice of Agile Frameworks such as Scrum will be a plus
• Any other relevant certification

Application Closing Date
22nd February, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates shoul:
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