Business Analyst

S&OP Planning - 3P & SWA, S&OP

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Overview of the role
The S&OP Role will be responsible for continuous improvement projects along with forecast planning across the IN Supply Chain Transportation S&OP team . The long-term goal of Business analyst (BA) role is to make planning processes more lean by automating manual tasks, creating dashboards to derive actionable planning insights.
Secondary goals are to create forecasting models for provide the right viz to our Ops stakeholders.
This will require collaboration within the SWA, SC teams, LM Teams, and RoW Analytics teams to deliver on the above goals.
The person should be a self-starter who is passionate about discovering and solving complicated problems, learning complex systems, working with numbers, and organizing and communicating data and reports.

Key job responsibilities
• Scoping, driving and delivering complex projects across Transportation S&OP teams.
• Performs root cause analysis by understanding the data need, get data / pull the data and analyze it to form the hypothesis and validate it using data.
• Find scalable solution for business problem by executing pilots and build Deterministic and ML model (plug and play on readymade ML models and python skills).
• Performs supporting research, conduct analysis of the bigger part of the projects and effectively interpret reports to identify opportunities, optimize processes, and implement changes within their part of project.
• Ability to convince and interact with stakeholders at all level either to gather data and information or to execute and implement according to the plan.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and problem solver
• Communicate ideas effectively and with influence (both verbally and in writing), within the team.

Key Performance Areas:
• Data analytics and Data Sciences
• Machine learning
• Project/Program Management
• Automation initiative conceptualization and implementation
• Big Data analytics
• Defect Elimination


A day in the life
Monday - Work on analyzing data on Forecast vs Actuals before WBR
Tuesday - Creating dashboards etc for assigned projects
Wednesday - Forecasting support
Thursday - Forecasting support
Friday - Working with teams to share the analytics reports and their insights and build modifications as per requirements

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 2+ years of complex Excel VBA macros writing experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience with SQL or ETL

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with Tableau
- Experience using very large datasets

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Experience Level

Entry Level