Applications Development Team Lead - EDI

APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEAD (EDI)

Hormel Foods Corporation

ABOUT HORMEL FOODS — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™

Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $9 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin’s®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the “Global 2000 World’s Best Employers” list by Forbes magazine for three straight years, is one of Fortune magazine’s most admired companies, has appeared on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s “The 100 Best Corporate Citizens” list for the 12th year in a row, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world’s most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit  www.hormelfoods.com and http://csr.hormelfoods.com/.

Hormel Foods Corporate Services, LLC seeks a full-time Application Development Team Lead – EDI responsible for managing and executing the assigned Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) programs – Onboarding, Migration, Releases, and Support across multiple platforms and EDI protocols. Duties include: Building relationships with external colleagues in the distribution network and customer supply chains; managing and executing multiple, competing demands; establishing priorities for team execution; interfacing with Hormel’s third party EDI provider as well as third party providers for multiple trading partners; reacting to the iterative nature of EDI testing and onboarding with many stakeholders and continuously pivoting as necessary to keep the team aligned with dynamic priorities; creating an engaging team that drives results for the organization; training, developing, mentoring, and ensuring success of assigned team members; performing quarterly and annual performance reviews; assisting in setting task and project priorities and establishing and adhering to project deadlines; working with the business (i.e. Manager of Business Applications) by understanding business processes and challenges; recommending solutions on how to solve; working with business to perform all steps in the Systems Development Life Cycle; troubleshooting issues with existing processes and programs; working with business to resolve, test, and migrate fixes to Production environment; maintaining and enhancing existing processes based on business input; ensuring proper testing and validation before migrating to Production environment; and directing the day-to-day work and priorities of the team assigned to support the EDI infrastructure and onboard new trading partners. Excellent understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies with ability to work with the vast array of information and to cope with rapidly changing information to work in a collaborative environment, including facilitation skills to lead requirements workshops. Responsible for automation of failed instances of EDI files without manual intervention in the tool and perform optimization for data flows with various applications; Participate in a continuous improvement process to reduce ticket volumes and improve overall production support service and efficiency by identifying recurring or potential issues & recommending solutions.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or a related field and 8 years related (progressive, post-baccalaureate) experience. Must also have 5 years of experience with each of the following: 1) Leading team of developers (offshore, remote, and on-premise), organizing and delegating workload of various Development and Production support activities around B2B and EDI Commerce, managing day-to-day operations, creating reports, managing external EDI partner expectations, and updating clients on activity progress these activities; 2) Developing business processes and EDI mappings (810, 880, 850, 852, 875, 855, 856, 830, 846, 943, 944, 940, 945, 210, 214, 204, and 867) for different EDI transaction formats (ANSI, EDIFACT, VDA, TRADACOMMS, XML, CSV), which includes all supply chain and other custom EDI transactions based on specifications provided in requirement document using Agile process; 3) Working with external EDI Providers, establishing various communication protocols for connectivity such as FTPs, FTP, SFTP, AS2, HTTPS, & VAN for B2B applications along with Fi