Description:
The group analyst will examine workflow and utilizing analytical and quantitative methods to understand, predict, and streamline business processes, and enhance supply chain processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage supply chain data and related analytics by designing, producing, analyzing, continuously improving, and presenting monthly logistics and supply chain metrics, measuring operational and financial performance against customer specific objectives
- Design and produce monthly internal reports and metrics to measure performance against targets/budgets, and to measure internal operational performance, identify trends and issues, and to measure internal efficiency
- Identify, prioritize, structure, and solve complex supply chain problems using data mining, analytics, and business judgment
- Summarize findings into useful information with implication for increase revenue, cost reduction, and/or driving supply chain business decisions
- Plan and implement supply chain optimization projects related to inventory management, cost optimization, and route planning, to meet business requirement
- Responsible for developing models to recommend inventory deployment configurations and optimize ordering parameters
- Regularly track KPIs and report on supply chain performance
- Create dashboards, reports, and analysis that explain trends – what happened, what may happen, and why
- Evaluate route schedules or load plans, including historical activity and shipment trends to provide recommendations for improvements to routing efficacy and solution efficiency
- Handle reoccurring analysis and tasks aimed at driving continuous cost savings initiatives
- Examine current processes to identify shortcomings and implement or recommend improvements to drive out waste
- Responsible for planning and documenting standard operating processes
- Collaborate with internal subject matter expert to resolve supply chain related problems and support implementations
Key Requirements:
- Arabic or/and European languages are highly desired
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Industrial Engineering, or Information Systems
- Ability to analyze large and multi-dimensional data sets using SQL (PL/SQL or T-SQL), Excel, and other analysis tools
- Fundamental understanding of transportation, supply chain and logistics concepts, and familiarity with data warehousing and architecture concept/tools is a plus
- Working knowledge of Data Mapping and Data Mining experience and the ability to follows process and standard procedures
- Quantitative and analytical skills: must be highly numerate and possess the ability to perform statistical analysis on large data set, to provide analytical support for projects, new businesses opportunities, and proposals
- Problem solving skills: They are expected to be naturally curious and with proven ability to identify and resolve problems
- Critical thinking skills: They require an affinity for data and resourcefulness in obtaining data and must be able to relate with abstract to make decisions in situations where complete information is not available
- Master Data: keen understanding of Master Data Management and data structures within
- Project management skills: They also require project management skills to provide leadership for minor projects through to completion.