Looking for a highly motivated business data analyst to work with subject matter experts and stakeholders in developing our supply chain scheduling systems. This position requires a proactive, highly motivated individual with an aptitude for creativity, critical thinking, and modeling. This person will be expected to take ownership and drive positive change.
The successful candidate must be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, is analytical, detail-oriented and possesses the ability to work well with internal and external cross-functional teams.
Primary Responsibilities
- Create strategy for the development of functional requirements with business users and IT members for possible solution provider/vendor assessments
- Lead the interviews, brainstorming sessions, workshops, etc for gathering necessary requirements from user groups
- Work cross-functionally with other internal departments to ensure new products/features align with enterprise strategy
- Assist in partnering with the business and technical team on solution design with a focus on streamlining workflow and standardizing the event processes
- Leverage modern technologies to improve analytical capabilities to support operations
- Dashboarding and visualization as mandatory requirements
- Provide analytical support
- Analyzing data for patterns and trends
- Visualizing data to make it easier to understand
- Presenting data in such a way that it tells a compelling story
- Develop and deploy metrics to answer key business questions
- Communicate complex analysis and insights, both verbally and in writing
Qualifications for Business Data Analyst
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Computer Information Systems, or other business/analytical disciplines or equivalent experience in a related field
- Ability to write detailed use cases and functional requirements and to work with development members to confirm application design
- Experience developing and analyzing key metrics to drive the build vs buy decision
- Strong data analytics skills to drive rapid decision making
- Excellent presentation, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Optimistic, self-motivated, and assumes ownership for deliverables in a fast-paced environment
- Strong presentation, written and verbal communication, and collaboration skills
- Proven history leveraging tech to automate and enhance business processes
- Experience managing projects through different software development lifecycles including Waterfall and Agile
- Proven experience developing, implementing, and supporting business intelligence and data visualization tools including Tableau, PowerBI or similar for large datasets
Preferred Qualifications
- Supply Chain knowledge and experience is a plus
- Experience with value chain analysis and strategy (volume, revenue, profit analysis and decision-making management)
- Experience with forecasting or scheduling
- Understanding of best practice analysis and visualization techniques