Job Description:
This critical Business Analyst role will be focused on driving continuous improvement across our entire supply chain and focused on our regional and central distribution facilities. You’ll be working on projects of diverse scope and complexity, related to improving every aspect of the order fulfillment and delivery experience for both internal and external customers. The right candidate will have a strong supply chain business background, experience gathering and documenting functional requirements for technology projects and relevant experience with Supply Chain, DC operations and fulfillment, eCommerce and home delivery as well as demonstrate stellar communication skills.
Responsibilities
*Be a trusted partner and peer to our regional and central distribution facility leaders to partner back with the core Product Management and technology teams to deliver recommendations that address business and process improvements.
*Partner with the Product team to effectively deliver projects and features and measure engagement/effectiveness of implementation through KPI’s and ROI
*Serve as a liaison between Operations and Product Management teams to ensure that the Business voice is heard loudly every day.
*Support regional and central distribution facilities teams by being the subject matter expert, able to answer questions and make clear recommendations.
*Partner with SC Product to define opportunities across the DC operations, transportation, yard management, order fulfillment and in home furniture scheduling, routing, and delivery areas of the supply chain.
*Define specific requirements and scoping for potential initiatives and support the Product (Product Playbook authoring, Requirements and Story writing)
*Partner with the Product and Operations leaders to forecast business benefits and other impacts on the business.
*Partner with the broader Supply Chain Product team to develop roadmaps through deep business engagement and assessing opportunities using a hypothesis driven approach and focused on measurable, high impact outcomes.
*Research market and industry trends and perform competitor product analysis in appropriate areas
Qualifications:
You have proven experience with the Supply Chain, DC operations and logistics experience or related organizations or roles. We’re open to candidates with diverse experience, but it is important that you identify as a positive, customer focused, solution driven person. In addition, for this role, you should have:
*You have stellar communication skills and the skills to be a great business partner and influence others.
*Experience working with the supply chain areas of logistics and operations, merchandising systems, Order Management, inventory accounting, manufacturing, and care center operations.
*Ideally you have experience in multi-channel retail. Consulting background is desirable.
Demonstrated ability experience to process map business functional processes and assess them for opportunities
*A proven ability to gather and catalog requirements as a jumping off point for developing business solutions
*Experience across multiple software delivery models including waterfall, agile, scrum and lean.
*You have a point of view on supply chain processes and can deliver value for the customer
*You care about the quality of your work and that is evident in all that you do.
*You have a bachelor’s degree or more in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience will be considered.
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