Strategy and Operations Analyst

ADVICS North America, Inc.•Lebanon, OH

12h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for collecting, organizing, analyzing, reporting data, and developing improvement solutions as well as performing cost analysis of products in North America ADVICS group. Responsibility also includes helping develop a plan to expand the market, launch new businesses and products. This role will work with different departments to create a long-term company vision. This position reports to Assistant Manager.

Requirements

Ability to perform complex and confidential data analytics activities for executives, managers in multiple departments
Ability to collect, clean, maintain and analyze large data sets
Ability to manage multiple competing deadlines effectively and professionally
Ability to create reports and presentations for use at managerial and executive meetings
Skill in effectively participating in teams made up of peers, managers, and executives
Skill in communicating with others in different departments and to people outside the organization; verbally and in writing
Skill in MS Office products including proficient use of MS Excel and MS Outlook
Use of logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions.
Strong mathematical skills
Comfortable utilizing business case development and strategic thinking to solve problems
Skill in communicating with others in different departments and to people outside the organization; verbally and in writing.

Nice To Haves

Experience with data visualization software suites is a plus (Power BI, Etc.)
Spanish and/or Japanese language ability is a plus but not required
Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering field with 1-3 years experience
Prefer manufacturing experience

Responsibilities

Provide analytical support to leaders
Create and propose solutions to increase operational business efficiency
Lead teams to improve profit condition in various manufacturing locations
Support other teams with reports and analysis
Collaborate with group companies to further ADVICS Vision, objectives, and goals
Leverage insights to define, recommend and /or co-create strategic business solutions
Work with ADVICS global HQ(Japan) to develop long term strategies and goals
Develop and plan to new business or opportunity with various teams
Provide actionable insights and modeling to improve strategy and profit performance
Perform trending analysis and projections
Identify potential business issues and develop contingency plans to effectively mitigate risks
Create complex product costing models and analysis
Present costing analysis and profitability expectations to operational management teams
Lead product cost meetings including preparing documents, presentation materials, correspondence, and schedules
Assess cost effectiveness of products or projects, tracking actual costs relative to targets as the project develops. Evaluating the profitability and viability of our products.
Other special projects, tasks or duties as assigned by supervisor and/or management.