Sr Business Analyst, Sourcing

Grainger Businesses • Lake Forest, IL

5d • $73,400 - $122,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Analyst partners with Grainger’s Sourcing leadership team to address strategic and operational challenges. Acting as an internal consultant, the analyst develops insights and recommendations through analytics to influence the department’s strategy and operating model as Grainger transforms how it delivers value to customers. The role reports to the Sr Mgr, Sourcing Operations and requires occasional travel to local and international offices, customer locations, and field locations.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience solving diverse and complex business problems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to evaluate information and translate it into recommendations and solutions.
• Strong ability to analyze large data sets to support fact-based decisions and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to create visual reporting dashboards to assess business performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to build PowerPoint presentations and present to varied audiences and organizational levels.
• Broad business knowledge and organizational awareness, including understanding of business profitability drivers.
• Technical experience and proficiency with data warehousing systems such as Teradata and SQL, SAP, Power BI, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to work urgently in a deadline-driven environment while managing multiple conflicting priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Previous consultant experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sourcing leaders and key stakeholders to understand challenges and needs, assess existing processes, identify problems and opportunities, and develop hypotheses for potential solutions.
• Develop Sourcing measurement dashboards that capture core workflows and provide insights to support operations management, process changes, communications, stakeholder management, and quality improvement.
• Provide structured, data-driven analysis and discovery for Sourcing offer development and positioning, evaluating hypotheses and supporting the development of Sourcing’s strategic vision.
• Lead the identification, gathering, and analysis of information to test hypotheses and promote fact-based decision-making throughout the Sourcing organization.
• Perform ad hoc analytics to support strategy development and operations, communicate findings, and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Partner across Grainger to gather internal and external voice-of-customer feedback and inform metric design.
• Manage the department’s reporting and data landscape to support leadership oversight and ensure consistency.
• Lead reporting design and implementation initiatives, working with business partners to achieve desired outcomes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage starting on the first day of employment.
• Six free annual sessions with a licensed therapist.
• 18 annual paid time off days for full-time employees, prorated based on employment start date.
• Six company holidays per year.
• A 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, with no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Student loan refinancing.
• Free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs and nursing benefits.
• Up to 14 weeks of paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks of paid leave for non-birth parents.

What This Job Offers

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