Supply Chain Operations Business Analyst

Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Supply Chain Operations Business Analyst, based in Chicago, IL.

The Lactalis USA (LUSA) Supply Chain Operational Excellence team embraces problem‑solving and leadership as the keys to continuous improvement, driving overall business transformation.

As a Supply Chain Operations Business Analyst, you will carry out responsibilities such as, but not limited to, maintaining oversight of the reporting processes, key performance indicators, and decision support capabilities for US supply chain teams. You will be responsible for providing insights that drive efficiency and flexibility across our supply chain network.

The role also includes extracting and combining data from multiple sources and presenting through reports and dashboards – creating complex supply chain analyses that can be used to align stakeholders, drive the team’s ability to make informed cross‑functional decisions quickly and improve results.

• Creation and maintenance of supply chain reporting dashboards. Provide cross‑functional users reports compiled from multiple locations including SAP, customer and vendor reports and other data sets to provide a complete view of our supply chain performance.
• Work with Assistant Director, Performance Management & Analytics and business unit Supply Chain teams on the monthly performance review cycles, including associated data and presentations. As needed, attend monthly review meetings with supply chain leadership team and track action items.
• Prepare reports on supply chain/logistics performance measures.
• Perform moderately complex analysis of information, problems, and/or data under general supervision. Make recommendations for the review of senior staff members.
• Track, monitor and measure the benefit of implemented solutions for moderately complex issues, applying company policies and procedures in the resolution of a variety of issues. May also perform gap analysis.
• Communicate perceived risks to senior staff members and leadership with recommendations for mitigation.
• Compute metrics involving moderately complex issues.
• Develop, analyze and disseminate moderately complex reports.
• Build productive internal/external working relationships to work collaboratively and ensure alignment with subject matter experts on analyses.