Job Description

HM's Top Needs:

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   Blue Yonder  /  JDA Technical  /  Deployment experience with ESP (not WMS Not TMS)
   
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   Functional experience  (as a planner/ buyer / scheduler)
   
3. Worked on large projects

Education Required: Bachelors

Years’ Experience Required: 5+

Role of a Supply Chain Project Analyst   Blue Yonder ESP / IO rollout

Expertise in supply chain management, project leadership, and collaboration to drive continuous improvement and innovation in supply chain processes.

• Role Overview and Purpose: The position requires a supply chain subject matter expert with strong project management and collaboration skills to support and optimize the company's global supply chain through process and technology improvements. The analyst will work within the Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence to develop and execute strategies that enhance innovation, growth, and profitability. 
• Key Responsibilities: Responsibilities include identifying system and process improvement opportunities, leading corporate projects, gathering business requirements, analyzing problems, collaborating across teams, developing training materials, and overseeing testing and implementation of system enhancements. The role demands innovative thinking and cross-functional coordination. 
• Qualifications and Experience: Candidates should hold a bachelor’s degree in relevant fields, with knowledge in multiple supply chain areas such as demand planning and materials planning. Experience with SAP, APO, or Blue Yonder systems and certifications like APICS, Lean Sigma, or Project Management Professional are preferred. The role typically requires 10 years of work experience or 8 years with an advanced degree. 
• Skills and Physical Requirements: Essential skills include enterprise ERP, advanced planning solutions, quantitative aptitude, systems thinking, Microsoft Office proficiency, project management, and agile development. The position requires up to 25% travel, including international trips. 

The Project analyst will join a team working to redefine the business processes and technology used to plan the supply chain.

Project analyst will work in the Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence organization and be responsible for providing analysis, leadership and support working in the development and execution of continuous improvement and long-term strategies that will optimize the company's innovation, growth, and profitability goals.

The project analyst will support the end-to-end supply chain through the innovation, design, implementation, continuous improvement, maintenance, and support of Supply Chain Systems. This position will work to build communities of users, develop, and deploy and drive and adoption standard processes “global design.”  They will work closely with core process teams (IT), business groups, and commercial teams(regions) to understand requirements and solutions and provide governance. The position is a project manager / analyst role; it provides the opportunity to work across regional, functional, and commercial franchise boundaries. This position requires innovative thinking, consulting skills and collaboration. Applies mastery of in-depth knowledge in one area or broader expertise in many areas of the supply chain function. Considered an internal expert within an area.

Responsibilities

·         Identify improvement opportunities for current systems, planning, and reporting methods.

·         Support or lead corporate projects / initiatives- develop the approach, communicate plans and tasks to operational, divisional, and global participants, manage projects / initiatives to timeline, and successfully achieve projects’ / initiatives’ goals.

·         Communicate relationships and constraints between people, processes, business requirements and systems

·         Work independently on development and execution of plans

·         Lead or co-lead business requirements gathering and design sessions for new platforms, applications, and enhancements

·         Prepare / Review Detailed Requirements Documents and use cases

·         Evaluate causes as well as effects of business problems, analyze options, and propose solutions

·         Collaborate with varied business or system analysts, project team and business performing through project and organizational needs

·         Supply expertise on subject matter on supply chain processes and applications.

·         Develop process and training documents

·         Understand and stay current in trends in the solution space to ensure solutions meet long-term objectives

·         Lead/Coordinate testing and implementation of key system enhancements

·         Lead/Coordinate efforts of project estimation for review with cross organization technical as well as business teams

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