Global Logistics - Business Analyst

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Objective Global Supply Chain Logistics is continuously looking to improve our processes, reduce costs/spend, reduce supply chain/supplier risk, and improve quality. The focus of this role includes working with third party transportation systems and data across multiple systems, organizing data, synthesizing data to create BI dashboards, managing third-party partners, leading data integration initiatives and working across teams to help improve quality and cost of transportation and duty expenditure.

The incumbent will have the opportunity to lead projects to enhance our global supply chain control tower, information management system(s), and lead supply chain optimization projects (including duty savings, global route planning, sourcing to lowest landed costs, asset tracking, quality improvements, freight audit and cost reduction etc.). The incumbent's initial focus will be to work independently to conduct duty savings analysis to enable strategic procurement to help lower landed costs and manage carrier/customs invoice payments with objective to reduce duty.

The Business Analyst represents the business in the overall Data Governance Program at the domain level. They are accountable to manage a set of variables or information. The Business Analyst position is responsible for working with Data Owners from multiple product leads on the team, across the enterprise and with outside vendors to resolve problems, implement process improvements, train end users and provide solutions to a wide range of technical problems of moderate complexity.

They implement data management procedures, support EDI integrations, the flow of information between dispersant systems, analyze data quality, develop database systems, produce tableau and BI reports and create documentation to ensure data integrity, security and maintenance processes run appropriately.

Dimensions The Business Analyst typically manages multiple assignments simultaneously with urgent deadlines impacting cost, and margin. They are responsible for analyzing multiple sources of the same data for data accuracy, building dashboards, managing digitalization and data flow btw suppliers and carriers and Solar Turbines, as well as defining and maintaining data quality metrics and following up to explain trends, root causes of anomalies and identify opportunities for improvement.

Role Definition Works closely with one or more teams in translating business and design requirements into functional specifications needed by the Global Logistics team to support cost reduction and quality improvement initiatives with focus on digital transformation and analysis.

• Data analysis on duty savings opportunities, transportation network optimization, and supplier strategic sourcing opportunities with goal to lower landed costs
• Provide oversight of data domains and standards within third party systems
• Lead payment process for duty, custom broker and freight payments
• Development of Tableau and PowerBI dashboard
• Create and manage supply chain global business intelligence dashboards
• Reconciliation of accounts payable, forecasting accruals, and future liabilities.
• Support digital twin initiative on product, freight flows, to understand landed costs
• Manage logistics carrier EDI specs, end to end data flows btw dispersant systems
• Collaborates with one or more cross-functional digital product teams to gather and analyze business requirements for digital initiatives, including Transportation Management, Freight Payment enhancements
• Ensures business and functional requirements are captured and organized.
• Conducts stakeholder interviews, workshops, and user…