Business Analyst, Senior Advisor

** Overview:*
* At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer's and partner's needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You'll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about-locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

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* What We're Looking For:

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* Business analysts act as advisors to the business and support sound decision making through the use of data driven insights, coupled with strong business acumen. They work with stakeholders to understand business challenges, design queries and reports  to understand root cause and advise and consult with leadership to implement solutions. Business Analysts support the operations they are aligned with by providing reporting, interpretation and data-based recommendations to business leaders.

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Duties / Responsibilities:

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* - Working directly with business stakeholders, designs complex reports using data from multiple disciplines and potentially impacting multiple business units. Delivers report in format to aid stakeholders, including executive staff, outside the functional area (power point, PDF, etc).

- Demonstrates the ability to translate complex analytics into strategic business direction. Is considered to be a high level contributor/ specialist and influential trusted advisor

- Demonstrates strong executive level communication which includes the right focus, level of detail and tone for all exchanges

-  Capably navigates executive level stakeholder management and alignment

- Represents analytics in executive strategy discussions. Defines how analytics teams can support execution against strategy

-  Reviews delivered reports for data accuracy. Works independently to resolve quality issues of complex scope directly with business stakeholders. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

-  Demonstrates expert level knowledge of KPIs, team roles, and business processes in assigned area as well as interconnections with data and processes in adjacent areas and across enterprise systems and functions

-   Demonstrates understanding of and is a key contributor to Zebra's analytics strategy

-  Uses business acumen to look beyond the data to generate recommendations for a wide variety of moderately complex problems to review directly with business stakeholders.

-    Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles

-  Intimately understands system relationships and data flow. Uses industry best practices for data management

- Maintains data quality and governance is assigned systems.  May be responsible for data governance processes and quality in assigned area of responsibility. Leads governance initiatives and performance optimization

-  Coaches junior level analysts in data governance, report design and analysis, and data presentation as well as in technical and organizational effectiveness

-  Demonstrates advanced understanding of data governance, enterprise systems, and multi-domain integrations

-  Demonstrates advanced knowledge of strategic data policy and compliance frameworks

-  Architects highly complex, multi-unit analytical frameworks

-  Role models and drives innovation and embracing advancing technologies to fuel maturity and evolution of analytics, including AI, machine learning and predictive analytics. Drives a data culture.

-  Operates with full autonomy, provides thought leadership and executive-level analytics strategy

-  Coaches junior level analysts in data governance, report design and analysis, and data presentation as well as in technical and organizational effectiveness

- Drive consistency and scale of process, tools, and policies for Indirect Procurement both internal to Indirect Procurement as well as across the Zebra organization.

- Focus on organizational level KPIs and measurements

- Drive KPI improvements and operational efficiency

- Enable our teams to operate more efficiently through data access, analytics and business insights, and automation roadmap

- Drive Global Procurement transformational roadmap and strategic initiatives (ex. Vendor segmentation, Spend mapping, Indirect operational maturity)

- Partner with cross functional teams representing the Procurement organization in large scale transformation activities (ex. Acquisitions, Guided buying, SRM systems)

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* Job Requirements:

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* -  12+ years experience

-  Bachelors degree or equivalent experience, Advanced degree…