Supply Chain Analyst V

Description:
Ensures others apply best standards and practices in Supply Chain and Logistics, ensures theirs and others compliance to relevant guidelines, and resolves and addresses inventory, asset, and vendor/suppliers deficiencies. Makes recommendations to streamline current systems to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes, and creates and executes research plans to develop new/existing business operating models according to supply chain future state. Oversees the audits of suppliers, conducts corrective actions based on interpreting needs identified from audits, and facilitates business reviews. Supports strategic decisions making by leveraging results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes for projects, while assessing customer satisfaction levels.

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.


• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.


• Performs asset accounting tasks by: performing support tasks to guide transfers and disposals, requesting consultative direction as needed; maintaining records of dispositions in the accounting system, requesting consultative direction as needed; driving the implementation of policies and procedures to achieve accountability for the misuse of assets by proposing strategies for cost reductions and using expertise; and proposing strategies for cost reductions.
• Ensures ongoing quality customer services by: resolving complex customer issues pertaining to vendors/suppliers reporting, billing, and merchandise independently; resolving complex backorder problems, delivery delays, repairs, customer concerns, and returns; driving processes for product returns for credit or exchange and recalls; and preparing complex reports (e.g., key metrics, cost and daily analysis) to customers.
• Ensures adequate levels of inventory are maintained by: resolving complex problems in the receipt and distribution of inventory, and administering transactions and requests for supplies, equipment, and services; conducting quantitative/qualitative analyses to forecast demand to minimize obsolescence or expiration, requesting consultative direction when needed; driving the application of strategies for maintaining automated inventory and ordering systems to support inventory reconciliation; confirming complex and long-term reorder levels are updated, maintained, and adhered to so that proper product rotation remains valid, and inventory levels are accurate; and working collaboratively as a prime contact on projects requiring coordination across organizational lines to maintain the inventory control system (e.g., ensure accuracy of product line, proper level of stock, rotation of product, cleanliness of product/carts).
• Maintains and improves supply chain and operations by: driving complex and long-term activities (i.e., shipping logistics, carrier, and inventory system evaluation) to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes for increased efficiency; developing and driving research plans to identify new/existing business operating models according to supply chain future state functional and technical design; and, as a prime contact on projects requiring coordination across organizational lines, driving and monitoring processes to determine end-to-end sourcing, procurement, and logistics.
• Exercises and develops purchasing strategy that is consistent with the overall national sourcing strategy by: facilitating complex purchase requests and sourcing substitute items if needed immediately by requesting department; driving purchase standardization, quality, amounts, or equivalency; resolving complex purchase-related problems and driving the implementation of cost savings, independently; driving the development, recommendation of order quantities, and driving the implementation of product evaluations and trials, using expertise; and evaluating enterprise supply usage data, contract data, and evidence-based data to select new products and equipment.
• Complies with state and federal regulations, and company policy/procedures pertaining to purchasing, inventory management, and distribution by: implementing best standards, practices, and enforcing relevant guidelines (e.g., parking and shuttle); analyzing quotations for new stock and non-standard items, and fulfilling contracts to ensure compliance using expertise; producing non-standard reports for compliance monitoring (e.g., Joint commission, Sarbanes-Oxley [SOX]) and audits, requesting consultative direction as needed; driving corrective action and resolving deficiencies independently as necessary on a timely basis and in accordance with company policy; and coordinating the administration of programs of information, organizing data, training, and education for managers/product users on standards programs, product selection, and expected compliance.
• Manages suppliers/vendors performance and relationships by: guiding the resolution and escalation of problems with suppliers/vendors, ensuring they comply with policies and regulations; guides others and supports the onboarding of new suppliers/vendors, aiding in the administration of standard and non-standard contract negotiations with suppliers/vendors, when needed, and serving as a point of contact and escalation for suppliers/vendors; advising on corrective actions based on interpreting needs identified from audits; resolving complex suppliers/vendor issues; and hosting business reviews to ensure suppliers/vendors meet operational and cost targets.
• Provides technical analysis and reporting services for others by: evaluating analyses and reviewing results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes for complex and long-term projects; preparing and analyzing data from customer service surveys tools to assess satisfaction levels and drive quality improvement procedures; utilizing tools, techniques, and assumptions to ensure complex analyses are appropriate to support operational and business decisions; and reviewing reports in response to business needs for selected departments documenting complex analytical results.