Supply Chain Operations Business Analyst

Description Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose. At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed. As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together. In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz. At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued. Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. From your PASSION to ours Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Supply Chain Operations Business Analyst, based in Chicago, IL. The Lactalis USA (LUSA) Supply Chain Operational Excellence team embraces problem-solving and leadership as the keys to continuous improvement, driving overall business transformation. As a Supply Chain Operations Business Analyst, you will carry out responsibilities such as, but not limited to, maintaining oversight of the reporting processes, key performance indicators, and decision support capabilities for US supply chain teams. You will be responsible for providing insights that drive efficiency and flexibility across our supply chain network. The role also includes extracting and combining data from multiple sources and presenting through reports and dashboards - creating complex supply chain analyses that can be used to align stakeholders, drive team's ability to make informed cross functional decisions quickly and improve results. Requirements From your EXPERTISE to ours Creation and maintenance of supply chain reporting dashboards. Provide cross-functional users reports compiled from multiple locations including SAP, customer and vendor reports, and other data sets to provide a complete view of our supply chain performance. Work with Assistant Director, Performance Management & Analytics and business unit Supply Chain teams on the monthly performance review cycles, including associated data and presentations. As needed, attend monthly review meetings with Supply Chain leadership team and track action items. Prepare reports on supply chain/logistics performance measures. Perform moderately complex analysis of information, problems, and/or data under general supervision. Make recommendations for the review of senior staff members. Track, monitor and measure the benefit of implemented solutions for moderately complex issues, applying company policies and procedures in the resolution of a variety of issues. May also perform gap analysis. Communicate perceived risks to senior staff members and leadership with recommendations for mitigation. Compute metrics involving moderately complex issues. Develop, analyze and disseminate moderately complex reports. Build productive internal/external working relationships to work collaboratively and ensure alignment with subject matter experts on analyses. From your STORY to ours Bachelor's degree is required. Majors in Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, or other Business Discipline are required. 2+ years Supply Chain experience is required. Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Access), intermediate and above skill level in Excel. Preferred experience with SAP Advanced database and/or SQL experience preferred Experience in a data and BI development environment At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career. Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affimative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations. #J-18808-Ljbffr Lactalis USA