Location: Grossbeeren, Germany
Department: Supply Chain Technology
Reports to: Platform Lead

About the job

ASOS is one of the global top fashion and beauty destinations, headquartered in the UK, expanding globally at a rapid pace. We believe fashion can make you look, feel and be your best and, with technology in our DNA, we deliver the latest trends to our digital-obsessed ‘twenty-somethings’ market. Our award-winning Tech teams sit at the heart of our business. We deliver technical innovation and pioneer incredible solutions which are crucial to our continued success. We’re brave, creative and authentic; we’re extremely ambitious and thrive on the individuality of our amazing employees. Our values encompass everything needed for our tech people to be the thought leaders of tomorrow.

We are looking for a Business Analyst / Product Owner within the Supply Chain Technology team - Warehouse platform, with a primary focus on supporting the continuous improvement of warehouse systems including our state-of-the-art multi-million Euro warehouse automation technology, which currently supports the fulfillment of over 31m orders a year to our EU and selected non-EU markets and is targeting more growth.

We have got a mixture of small and large, exciting projects and space to innovate within the Warehouse Platform space that are critical to the commercial success of ASOS so it is a great time to join the team!

The successful candidate will primarily be based at our Eurohub warehouse located in the south of Berlin -  (Grossbeeren), just south of Berlin. You can reach us via train (RE4 – 22min from Hauptbahnhof Berlin) or bus (711 / M11 / X11) or by car.
 

Responsibilities

• Work with internal and external stakeholders, 3PL and suppliers to capture, analyse and validate business requirements for strategic new implementations for a range of systems within the automated fulfilment centre

• Be the link between Tech and the business by understanding the commercial impact when implementing new warehouse processes

• Collect, analyse, and transform the business needs into technical requirements

• Use a strong and broad range of analytical skills to ensure data-driven decision making underpins all our projects

• Understand and consider the relationship between the WMS and other connected systems in the ASOS tech landscape (website, finance, and cross platforms)

• Support internal and external development and testing teams when assessing solution design and implementation for the project

• Work in collaboration with project managers, solution architects, software developers, QA engineers and solution analysts

• Keep up to speed with industry innovations and analysis on developments and trends, cascading to the wider team to ensure that ASOS are leading the way with the latest innovative solutions

• Be an active member of our product owner / business analyst community

We would love to meet someone with…

• Substantial experience in Warehouse/Fulfilment centre operations, preferably within a retail environment

• Experience of working with WMS or ERP projects is highly desirable

• Experience across the full IT project lifecycle in both structured and agile environment

• Able to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, proactive and solution oriented

• English is necessary, German is a plus, any other European language is a benefit

• An understanding of process design & modelling, BPMN

• Proactive, can-do attitude with a hands-on approach

Nice to have

• Working or supporting software testing, UAT, familiarisation with software testing cycle

• Experience in 3PL management and/or team lead position would be great

• Being a Product Owner in a Technology department

• Positive attitude with a sense of humour

What's in it for you?

• There are loads of great things about working for ASOS, including:

• ASOS Germany facilitates over 1 billion Euro turnover each year and we keep growing. We ship to all continental European countries and Russia. Each day we ship over 300.000 units from our warehouse in Grossbeeren. Our highly automated warehouse is one of the best warehouses in Europe and we are about to set up the next European warehouse shortly.

• We trust your judgment and we give you the power to decide.

• We are an impactful, diverse, inclusive, and very international team. We speak many languages in the office, English being the one that we speak the most.

• We learned that you do not have to be in the office to work and to perform. We have trust in you, and we have generous partly remote setup solutions, apart from Black Friday when we all need to be on-site.

• Our HQ is in London and other warehouses give you the opportunity to travel there and meet your business partners.

• 25 days holiday + 1 day extra for each year you are with us + 1 extra day for your birthday! We also give you an extra day off if you would like to do some non-work-related, non-profit work for society.

• We have a dog-friendly office!

Benefits

• Amazing staff discount on clothes & beauty products

• Sample Sales! Reward yourself with some nice clothing for very little money

• Urban sports club for free

• Free German lessons if you like

• “Management Offsites” on which we travel with the whole team for 1.5 days and have a lot of fun – 3 times per year!

• We support your BVG ticket with 30€/month

• If you like, you can have your very own “Swapfiets”

• Subsidized meals in the canteen, Schnitzel Thursdays!

• We have also developed a nice tradition to celebrate your birthday and your ASOS anniversaries with team brunches and cake

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