Trade Business Analyst

The Trade Business Analyst supports trade compliance and supply chain decision-making by translating business needs into clear requirements, structured data inputs, and actionable insights. The role focuses on scenario analysis, governance, documentation, and cross-functional coordination to deliver approved business cases and trade program outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Trade Analytics & Decision Support

• Define problem statements, success metrics, and analysis plans for trade/logistics decisions.
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis on costs, volumes, trade lanes, and channels.
• Validate data quality, assumptions, and modeling outputs.
• Develop trade/network visualizations and executive summaries.
• Maintain reproducible analysis outputs and periodic data refreshes.

Requirements & Stakeholder Management

• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and requirements gathering.
• Document assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and decisions with traceability.
• Translate business needs into prioritized requirements or user stories.
• Align with cross-functional partners (Trade Compliance, Legal, Finance, Ops, Network Design).
• Communicate status updates, risks, and recommendations clearly.

Program Governance & Documentation

• Manage run plans, milestones, RAID logs, and change control.
• Maintain version control of models, outputs, and documentation.
• Prepare standardized data request templates and assumption packs.
• Publish regular stakeholder updates and executive readouts.

Trade Operations & Process Support

• Track customs ruling requests and manage related documentation.
• Maintain product profiles, classifications, and compliance data.
• Support trade lane documentation and operational coordination.
• Assist tariff mitigation analysis, cost/benefit tracking, and forecasting inputs.
• Support process improvements, SOP updates, automation stabilization, and reporting.
• Requirements and assumptions documentation with stakeholder sign-off.
• Scenario analysis reports with risks, impacts, and recommendations.
• KPI dashboards, status reports, and standardized data packs.
• Maintained analysis repository and documentation.
• Updated product profiles, ruling trackers, SOPs, and monitoring reports.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis, trade compliance, logistics, or supply chain analytics.
• Strong requirements documentation, stakeholder alignment, and analytical skills.
• Experience with data analysis tools (Excel, SQL/BI tools, presentations).
• Ability to synthesize insights into concise executive summaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.