Business Analyst II - Supply Chain

Description

We are North America’s largest book distributor with over 70,000 customer store locations. We move over 325,000,000 books per year and work with over 700 retailers and 500 publishers.

If you want to end every day knowing that you helped deliver a book into the hands of readers across America, let’s talk.

We are currently recruiting for a Business Analyst II - Supply Chain for our Oak Brook, IL office.

The Business Analyst II- Supply Chain, works closely with the supply chain departments and is responsible for developing visualizations and providing analytical output on a project basis.

This role will have a significant focus on supporting KPI metrics for supply chain functional areas, developing ad hoc solutions and engagement with supply chain initiatives.

What You Will Be Doing :

• Strong analytical skills with ability to explore data, draw conclusions, and develop and present business metrics to Performance analytical story from data strong decision-making skills and ability to work autonomously on assigned to research large data sets to determine data integrity root model / strategy of Blue Yonder WMS data in conjunction with the Azure team.
• Supply Chain responsibilities will include : Maintain focus on Supply Chain specific Hoc analysis including optimization projects.
• Ability to prepare comprehensive reports accurately, and present complex ideas clearly and out data visualizations using various BI UI Pages for Business .

Build out of Blue Yonder WMS dashboards for additional DC’s go out of freight dashboards with exception alerts.

• Perform ad hoc analysis with large data sets to call out and present key actionable and communicate actionable patterns and exceptions and recommend actionable next steps.
• Communicate effectively with internal departments in order to gather requirements and provide status SMEs and stakeholders of progress and post-implementation of self-service of collaborative project management cadence of supply chain performance and goals.
• Ability to adjust quickly to business needs and embrace business requirements and remain adaptive, utilizing various analytical opportunities to skill project documentation and present business user summarizations.
• Ability to work well in team environment and develop close relationships with all areas of the collaborative work style, while partnering with cross-functional guidance and creative ideas that build on initiatives.
• Present business performance data to senior management regularly; review and analyze historical data by customer / category to implement strategic distribution decisions.
• Identify business opportunities and manage projects.
• Effectively communicate goals, status changes, and other information on a regular basis with upper management.
• Develop and implement plans across items, categories, and customers.
• Lead Fulfillment planners to elevate the team's performance.
• Build an alert / exception driven process for the Fulfillment Planning team.
• Administrator to Blue Yonder system, including parameter settings for safety stock targets and weeks of supply.
• Key Contributor to the Demand and Supply Forecast.
• Other duties may be assigned, directed or requested.

What You Will Need :

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field is required.
• Minimum two (2) plus years working with large data sets is preferred.
• Experience with Power BI and / or SQL is preferred.
• Experience with enterprise reporting and analysis tools is preferred.
• Experience with Blue Yonder Supply Chain (Demand / Fulfillment) solutions is preferred.
• Experience with Azure DevOps is preferred.
• Strong to advanced experience in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook is preferred.
• Creative thinker with strong analytical skills
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively.
• Solid attention to detail and ability to multitask.
• Team-oriented, hardworking, open-minded, and flexible.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and adapt to change.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to speak with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to create and write reports.
• Must be proficient in basic mathematics : addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Ability to do statistical analysis.
• Ability to deal with problems involving variables.
• The work performed is in an office environment.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate at low decibels.
• Must be able to work in a fast paced, team environment.

Salary : $70,000.00 - $87,000.00