Global ITP Implementation Analyst

AFL Telecommunications•Duncan, SC

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

AFL is seeking a Global ITP Implementation Analyst to join its Integrated Tactical Planning team at the corporate office in Duncan, South Carolina. The analyst works with cross-functional teams and independently leads smaller improvement initiatives while supporting larger global workstreams. The role translates business needs into practical solutions that reduce preparation effort, accelerate root-cause analysis, and improve teams’ ability to make and keep customer promise dates. The analyst identifies, implements, and supports adoption of AI-enabled and low-code automation solutions; improves ITP processes and recurring reporting; and helps teams use planning outputs and reporting to make decisions. The role coordinates readiness, testing, training, deployment, adoption, and sustainment for assigned changes, applying responsible AI practices and company standards. It does not own forecasts, supply plans, schedules, purchase decisions, customer commitments, data validation, or final technology and policy approvals. The position is based in Duncan, South Carolina, with a hybrid schedule and an expectation of working onsite three days per week. It supports global teams and may require travel and meetings across time zones. Onsite expectations may vary based on business needs, project activities, workshops, and team collaboration requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Project Management, or a related field; candidates with nontraditional backgrounds may be considered when project experience demonstrates the required capabilities.
Demonstrated practical use of AI in projects and ability to learn new AI capabilities and apply them to real business problems.
Relevant experience demonstrated through professional work, internships, project portfolios, or applied coursework.
Ability to collaborate across Commercial, Scheduling, Purchasing, Operations, Data Governance, IT, BI, and other functions while independently organizing work, removing barriers, escalating risks, and driving deliverables to closure.
Experience identifying business use cases and implementing process improvements, automation, or low-code solutions.
Strong Excel skills and ability to define reporting needs, interpret results, and communicate business insights.
Clear written and verbal communication, facilitation, collaboration, and change-leadership skills.
Commitment to responsible AI use, data privacy, information security, and human oversight.

Nice To Haves

Power BI experience, including simple report creation, Power Query, and basic DAX; advanced semantic-model development is not required.
Experience with Power Automate or similar low-code workflow tools.
Exposure to supply chain, manufacturing, planning, ITP, IBP, ERP/MRP, or enterprise process implementation.
Experience with Oracle or Kinaxis.

Responsibilities

Lead assigned ITP implementation and improvement projects with cross-functional teams, translating decisions into plans, owners, milestones, risks, and actions.
Identify practical AI and automation use cases, prioritize opportunities, build low-code solutions where appropriate, and coordinate specialists for more complex development.
Use AI to streamline meeting preparation and follow-up, summarize exceptions, support root-cause analysis, draft status updates and standard work, and surface potential solutions for human review.
Challenge manual ways of working, demonstrate improved approaches, and help teams adopt AI-enabled processes.
Define Power BI reporting requirements, work with BI specialists on complex solutions, and build simple reports using existing datasets, Power Query, and basic DAX where appropriate.
Interpret Power BI and other planning outputs to identify trends, exceptions, root causes, and decision needs, using AI-assisted analysis where appropriate.
Create and maintain project plans, process maps, standard work, decision logs, action trackers, risk logs, and implementation updates.
Support priority ITP meetings through preparation, facilitation, decision capture, action follow-up, and escalation of missed commitments.
Work with Data Governance and assigned data owners to clarify business impact and route data concerns.
Apply responsible AI practices, including appropriate data handling, information security, human review, transparency, and compliance with company standards.
Coordinate readiness, testing, training, deployment, adoption, and sustainment for assigned process and automation changes.