EDI Specialist

Minimum Requirements

• 4+ years of EDI or related experience

Critical Skills

• 4+ years of experience in EDI trading partner management in a distribution model including map development in Sterling Integration/ITXA, setting up communication channels with trading partner using B2BI Axway.

• 2+ years of experience preferred pharma distribution industry.

• Experience interacting with customers on various levels including technical, business and management.

• Ability to tailor communications to the intended audience.

• Excellent customer communication skills, verbal and written

• Good understanding of EDI transaction sets used in a distribution business, their function, structure and application (i.e. 850, 855, 832, 810 and 856).

• Knowledge of X12 transaction enveloping and addressing.

• Ability to evaluate a customer's needs and provide recommendations on an integration strategy to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for client customers.

• Business analysis, problem solving, and strong customer service skills are required.

• Working knowledge of JD Edwards

• Working knowledge of Unix & Shell scripting.

• Working knowledge in Axway B2Bi c

• Good understanding of communication protocols like AS2, SFTP

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Project/program management skills
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical distribution or similar distribution businesses
• Experience in Health Care industry
• Experience with JIRA

Key Responsibilities

• Interface with the Customer Experience Operations organization and teams responsible for supporting back-end systems such as SAP and the Connect web portal.
• EDI Specialists will rotate 24x7 on-call responsibilities across their team.
• Support of automated transactional integrations with customer systems including pharmacy, Specialty/3PL and MMS market segments, ERP, Supply Chain and other third-party software systems.
• Transaction research within a custom portal environment, comprised of a proprietary trading partner management system.
• Document pre- and post-processor, map development in Sterling Integrator translator, Cyclone Interchange gateway and S/FTP mailboxes.
• Use JDE user interfaces to set up transactions for EDI receipt/delivery and to provide support for existing transaction integrations for trading partners.