Material Analyst for Business Tranformation

Gulfstream • Savannah, GA

15h • Onsite

About The Position

This role focuses on supply chain management activities to ensure accurate part inventories at optimal stock levels, meeting global demands. The Material Analyst will collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to define and implement master data requirements, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across enterprise systems. Responsibilities include root cause analysis of data quality issues, facilitating data governance, developing validation rules, and supporting system implementations. The position also involves contributing to planning, procurement, logistics, and inventory management, analyzing performance indicators, managing inventory investment decisions, and performing lifecycle planning for inventory items. Additionally, the role requires developing replenishment plans, preparing reports, reviewing technical documentation for spares requirements, conducting audits, and participating in training.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related curriculum or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• 2 years experience in at least one of the following areas of specialization: Demand planning inventory management, Procurement, Operational logistics across distribution networks.
• Experience in demand planning and managing inventories across distribution networks.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Products such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• This job requires one to be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.

Nice To Haves

• APICS certificate (Association for supply chain and operations management) preferred.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with aircraft parts and regulations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the planning, procurement, logistics and inventory management of parts throughout the business unit.
• Apply sound judgment, experience and specialized supply chain management knowledge to meet performance metrics.
• Demonstrate ability to anticipate emerging trends and their potential impact to the business.
• Analyze key performance indicators to ensure supply chain service level goals are achieved.
• Demonstrate understanding of the financial and logistical impact of inventory investment decisions.
• Perform lifecycle planning on rotable and perishable inventory items as required.
• Prepare recommendations for changes to supply chain tactical plans in response to changing business requirements.
• Assist in determining whether excess inventory is subject to re-distribution, sale or disposal.
• Develop and maintain relationships with other functional areas to understand problems relating to shortages, distribution, customer provisioning, service center demand, and over-the-counter sales.
• Recommend solutions.
• Develop replenishment plans which highlight future inventory imbalances.
• Take appropriate actions to re-balance inventory levels while minimizing associated logistics costs.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports pertaining to current status of group/individual workload, inventory levels, associated logistics considerations, and overall customer fill rate.
• Review engineering drawings, vendor part catalogs, and purchased on assembly items to determine initial spares requirements in support of new and existing product lines.
• Complete audits as appropriate to area of specialization.
• Participate in training new staff members and impart business knowledge, skills and experience.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify, define, and prioritize master data requirements across functions.
• Partner with Business Technology teams to translate business needs into sustainable master data solutions.
• Analyze, enrich, and maintain master data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency across enterprise systems.
• Perform root cause analysis on data quality issues and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Facilitate cross-functional data governance activities to support standardized business processes.
• Develop and maintain data validation rules, workflows, and monitoring processes to improve data integrity.
• Communicate complex data concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support system implementations, enhancements, and integrations by validating master data readiness and quality.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to automate data management activities.
• Create clear documentation, business requirements, and process maps to support master data management and user adoption.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level