Planning & Reporting Senior Analyst, Distribution

Michael Kors Stores California•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

As a DC Planning & Reporting Senior Analyst you will be responsible for facilitating effective decision-making and business operational performance by analyzing metrics and designing reports that impact the planning and distribution center operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams for data gathering and analysis, help develop end-user performance reporting to drive improvement opportunities across the supply chain and DC Operations. The role will be very hands on and entrepreneurial and requires past experience in analytics and warehousing. You are empowered in this role to drive operational performance improvements - identify problems, work with appropriate teams and individuals to determine solutions, and implement those solutions.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Analytics, Info systems or related disciplines.
3-5 years of experience developing business and/or technology solutions and managing multiple technical consulting projects.
Ability to read/write SQL
Experience with Reporting Systems such as Power BI, Tableau, and Microstrategy
Microsoft Excel expertise
Demonstrated ability to understand complex information and communicate compellingly to executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
Excellent Communication Skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with Warehouse and Labor Management Systems, preferably Manhattan
Analytical and modeling skills as well as the ability to communicate complex ideas and datasets graphically.
Ability and flexibility to work with multiple systems and produce coherent and exhaustive reporting.
Excellent critical thinking, project management, analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
Demonstrate a high level of intellectual curiosity combined with a results-driven mindset.
Highly self-motivated and strong problem-solving skills including the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects.
Ability to combine strong quantitative skills with excellent interpersonal skills.
Ability to think pragmatically and drive execution of concepts.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Guide business process sessions, foster problem-solving, and conduct analyses with stakeholders.
Articulate the outcomes effectively to senior leadership.
Responsible for leading and driving cross-functional alignment within flow, KPI visualizations, labor planning and actualization to plans, ensuring financial goals are met.
Establish operational and cross-functional partnerships to strengthen business and strategic project initiatives.
Analyze system, operational data, and flow to proactively identify solutions and improvement opportunities and provide recommendations.
Analyze and assist in the business planning process from a financial perspective for operations: budgeting, target setting, review KPI’s, forecasting, and analysis.
Collaborate with the Information Technology team to address system issues and document business technical requirements for identified process improvements.
Manage the extraction and analytics of large data sets to proactively identify improvement opportunities and/or unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
Develop comprehensive labor plans and scenarios in collaboration with finance, facilities, human resources, and operation teams.
Field operation requests: develop technical requirements, and/or write SQL to produce desired report/metric/dashboard in MicroStrategy, Power BI or Tableau.
Anticipate and address operational and strategic requirements proactively, while innovatively improving and creating new metrics, dashboards, and reporting tools to empower effective decision-making.
Establish strong working relationships across all levels to ensure comprehensive project satisfaction and to effectively manage expectations related to functionality and deliverables.