EDI Administrator

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda
Honda has a clear vision for the future, and its a joyful one.

We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals.
At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.

We strive to be a company that serves as a source of power that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize the joy and freedom of mobility by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a zero environmental footprint.
We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.
If your goals and values align with Hondas, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

Role Description:
This department provides for the acquisition, development, maintenance, and support of information technologies and tools required to facilitate the internal clients business operations and interaction with external business partners.

The scope of operations encompasses 8 offices in 3 countries

USA, Canada, and Mexico.

This position provides daily operational support for EDI related activities including transaction monitoring, error handling, creation and maintenance of translation maps, creation and maintenance of job streams, establishing and supporting trading partner relationships.

Key Accountabilities

EDI operations management
Monitor daily communication and translation functions to ensure accurate and successful transfer of documents
Research missing or delayed documents through the VAN and internal translation processes
Ensure all outbound documents are properly acknowledged
Error log monitoring and resolution, communicate accordingly
Trading partner management
Work with trading partners to set up new relationships and add documents; establish and maintain meeting cadences; communicate meeting minutes
Process test files when received to provide feedback on their accuracy and completeness
Provide test data when requested within 2 business days
Create required translation maps and business processes based on requirements
Application development
Participate with other COE & ISD associates in design discussions when projects contain an EDI component
Support testing of developed software and software updates
Use your own experience and knowledge of available capabilities to recommend solutions
Ensure documentation and communication of systems solution
Project management
Maintain list of open or available EDI projects via Clarity and/or ITSM
Track and document status on multiple concurrent projects
Organize and prioritize time to complete tasks on schedule
Provide regular project status updates to supervisor and management
Strategic planning
Develop relationships with internal customers and trading partners to understand needs
Conceptualize and plan potential solutions to meet customer and trading partner needs

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Required Experience
Minimum 2 years of experience using a major integration platform such as Sterling GIS, Sterling Integrator, or SAP Process Orchestration
Familiarity with ANSI X12, EDIFACT, SAP IDoc, and XML document formats for data exchange
Ability to create and maintain document translation maps between formats (ANSI X12, EDIFACT, XML, flat file, CSV, etc.)

Required Education
College degree in Computer Science or Information Systems (or equivalent work experience).

Other job-specific skills
Proven ability to set priorities among multiple concurrent projects
Experience researching document exchange issues using tools provided with EDI software and VAN
Ability to work as part of a team to design and implement solutions
Experience creating implementation guides
Strong written and verbal communications skills
Familiarity with C# or similar object-oriented programming language.
Experience with job streams using Sterling BPML (creating, monitoring, scheduling)

Job Dimensions

No. of direct reports: 0
No. of indirect reports: 0
Financial dimensions: 0

Decisions Expected

Prioritization of daily activities to meet agreed objectives and requests to re-prioritize activities, revise schedules, or get additional resources to achieve agreed objectives
Determining need for conference calls and meetings and proposed meeting times, locations, attendees, and agenda as necessary
When to escalate an issue to Supervisor and a proposed course of action based on understanding of situation
Establish contacts with outside trading partners for initial setup and issue resolution
Resolve daily EDI operational issues through mapping changes or scheduling system restarts

Working Conditions

Additional Position Factors:
Workstyle: Hybrid
Travel: 10%
Overtime as needed
Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.

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