Supply Chain, Lead Analyst
About The Position
The Supply Chain, Lead Analyst supports Supply Chain objectives by promoting operational consistency and successful initiatives across the organization. The role provides analytical support to initiative and operational leaders and is responsible for delivering tactical initiatives. It involves extensive collaboration across Supply Chain, other enterprise functions—including Store Operations, Merchandising, Technology, and Finance—and external partners. The analyst uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop Supply Chain capabilities, identify operational trends and issues, and provide actionable recommendations to leadership. The role develops performance reporting and tracking for initiatives against Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), supports project planning and risk mitigation, and helps manage cross-functional implementation and change adoption. It may also serve as project manager, support portfolio intake, conduct competitive and market analysis, and develop analytical solutions and operational reporting that improve business performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent years of experience in lieu of the education requirement, if applicable.
- 7+ years of overall experience in supply chain, logistics, operations, analytics, or project coordination roles.
- 7+ years of strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into business insights.
- 7+ years of ability to manage work across multiple projects and teams in a fast-paced environment.
- 3–5 years of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- 3–5 years of strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
- 3–5 years of strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
- 3–5 years of initiative and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with retail or e-commerce supply chain environments.
- Lean Six Sigma Certification-IASSC.
Responsibilities
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis to support the development of Supply Chain capabilities.
- Analyze Supply Chain data and provide actionable performance recommendations to leadership.
- Identify operational issues and trends and support timely resolution of issues affecting operational execution.
- Develop reporting and tracking mechanisms or tools to monitor Supply Chain initiatives against Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Support development and tracking of project plans to ensure timely delivery of desired outputs.
- Identify risks to strategic Supply Chain initiatives and support development of risk mitigation plans.
- Manage cross-functional relationships to enable successful implementation of Supply Chain initiatives.
- Develop or oversee change management plans to drive initiative adoption, including facilitating onsite or virtual training when needed.
- Collect post-project or post-event feedback to support continuous improvement.
- Perform ad hoc competitive and market analysis.
- Serve as project manager when needed and communicate initiative status, issues, risks, lessons learned, and accomplishments to sponsors, business leads, and stakeholders.
- Support the Supply Chain portfolio intake process as needed.
- Analyze operational problems and implement analytics solutions using modeling, analytical reviews, data mining, and other methods.
- Act as a subject matter expert and liaison for cross-functional efforts.
- Assist with design and development of value-added operational reporting and analysis across Supply Chain.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
