Strategic Business Analyst

Jabil•Tampa, FL

About The Position

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe. JOB SUMMARY Reporting to the Director Business Solutions, the Strategic Business Analyst will coordinate and lead all quoting activities for the Strategic Business Team by providing strategic and tactical analysis for both internal and external customers. This role is responsible for leading all phases of the quoting process from inception through completion, including opportunity qualification, strategy definition, and acting as a key liaison between Sales and Purchasing. The Strategic Business Analyst will support the analysis and follow-up of quoted opportunities, ensuring value-added insights that assist Sales in successfully booking business. Additional responsibilities include global coordination across regions and multi-site customers, maintaining documentation, supporting training initiatives, preventing part and profit loss, driving incremental revenue growth, and contributing to the development of leading-edge solutions tailored to individual customer needs.

Requirements

Knowledge of or experience in the following fields (with experience of the supporting tools and metrics) are required:
Industry knowledge of electronic component manufacturers and part numbers
Independent broker experience is a must
Hands-on experience with quoting processes and strategies
Attention to detail with a continuous improvement mindset
Strong project management skills
Expert level of Microsoft office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) & adaptability to quickly learn new software packages.
Advanced PC skills, including strong spreadsheet capability.
Fluency in English (spoken and written)
Ability to read, analyze and interpret customer RFQ’s.
Ability to effectively respond to questions from groups of managers, internal clients
Strong and persuasive presentations skills
Ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects, meet deadlines, prioritize and re-prioritize workload.
Global experience & multi-Region expertise, global outlook
Bachelor's Degree required.
5 years work-related experience required, preferably in independent space
Five years + of data processing, analysis

Responsibilities

Qualify all opportunities directly with sales team and recommend quote strategies
Manage and co-ordinate the clean-up and upload of raw BOM ensuring data accuracy
Create a pre-quote synopsis of each opportunity to identify line count, value, commodity spread, top brands, product life cycle and lead time analysis.
Manage the workflow of sourcing opportunities with Purchasing teams and Business Development group and ensure deadlines are clearly defined, communicated and achieved
Seek out necessary experts to assist in resolving any delays to the deadline
Ensure projects drive improvement towards Jabil’s top corporate initiatives
Develop tools, models and databases for team to utilize in their work
Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy
Work with data owners as required, identifying data discrepancies & maintaining validation rules
Increase part count per customer, increase AVL expansion to existing customer base
Review costs to enhance/increase gross profit margin through data tracking (internal/external), delivering a competitive offer while preventing part & profit loss
Track, manage and review all quotations with analysts before presenting to sales
Provide a detailed executive summary of the final quote proposal to sales
Collaborate with sales to identify awards, non-awards/lost business, work with sales to gather customer feedback for re-quote or use for future metrics
May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned