GCM Advanced Analytics

Description

The company builds technology that helps customers connect, protect, analyze and act on their data and applications across edge and cloud environments.

This expert-level role in Supply Chain & Operations involves planning, scheduling and coordinating demand and supply, business processes, and manufacturing or delivery of products and services in line with company policy and country regulations.

As the subject matter expert, you will solve complex business problems, help develop new ideas and methods, and set direction for process improvements and policies. You will lead or advise functional and cross-functional project teams, represent the organization to external customers, make independent decisions on how to reach objectives, and may mentor junior staff.

You will work with stakeholders to find process improvements that manage costs, bring new and existing businesses together, and adapt to change.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex supply chain processes, including supplier selection, onboarding, collaboration and management, supplier negotiation and costing, and contract management.
• Lead sourcing systems strategy, deployment, enhancement, governance and integration across SAP, Ariba, smart contracts, supplier portals, reporting platforms and future digital sourcing solutions.
• Lead strategic sourcing programs and transformation initiatives, covering roadmap, executive reporting, milestone tracking, resource planning and benefits realization.
• Manage sourcing projects and work with cross-functional stakeholders to complete them successfully.
• Lead cross-functional regional and global business unit planning teams to maintain and improve current processes.
• Lead change management, communications, training, user adoption and business readiness for sourcing process and technology changes.
• Set up and maintain governance for supplier, contract and material master data so it stays accurate, high quality, compliant and aligned across systems.
• Define, maintain and enforce sourcing policies, governance frameworks, operational controls, audit readiness and compliance across the sourcing organization.
• Document processes and evidence of process adherence to support TL9K audits.
• Coordinate testing, validation, user acceptance testing and deployment readiness for sourcing systems and process changes.
• Support mergers, acquisitions and business integrations through process harmonization, tool consolidation, data alignment, standardized reporting and organizational change.
• Work with cross-functional teams on advanced analytics, AI and machine learning, predictive modeling and intelligent automation to improve sourcing decisions, supplier management, risk mitigation, cost optimization and efficiency.
• Independently run complex demand and supply matching, connecting planning to execution and identifying issues and their impact.
• Identify process improvements, develop recommendations and give management insight.
• Define and review performance metrics regularly and act on improvement opportunities.
• Analyze large volumes of data to find trends and patterns in commodity and manufacturing markets, pricing, supplier selection and supplier performance.
• Identify valuable data sources and automate their collection.
• Work with Commodity Management and Manufacturing Operations to gather and document requirements, ensuring solutions are simple and intuitive to use.
• Present information using data visualization techniques and propose solutions and strategies to business challenges.
• Prioritize the backlog with cross-functional teams.
• Add creative insights and recommendations to priority projects.
• Analyze large volumes of data, build action plans and drive issues to resolution.

Requirements

• Typically 6-10 years of experience in a supply chain function, with a solid understanding of supply chain and product costing processes.
• Proven ability as a data or business analyst.
• Experience in data mining; knowledge of SQL, Business Objects, Agile, SAP and Oracle preferred.
• Experience with business intelligence and visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI.
• First-level university degree or equivalent experience in supply chain operations, project management, computer science, engineering or business management; advanced degree preferred.
• Excellent understanding of plan, source, make and deliver processes.
• Ability to identify advanced analytical tools, models and methods for key business decisions.
• Understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills; mastery of English and the local language.
• Excellent internal and external relationship management skills.
• Strong analytics background: analyzing business problems with advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), statistical analysis and financial modeling.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Very strong project management skills, including leading cross-functional teams across multiple geographies.
• Strong business acumen and technical knowledge in your area of responsibility.
• Ability to explain data insights at the right level of detail for every level of the organization.
• Business process design and re-engineering.
• Systems integration and testing.
• Program and portfolio management.
• Knowledge of accessibility.

Conditions

Hybrid role: on average 2 days per week in a company office.

Location: Puerto Rico.

Job family: Supply Chain & Operations. Job level: Expert.

The company is an equal opportunity employer that decides on qualifications, merit and business need, and complies with laws on arrest and conviction records.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing benefits covering physical, financial and emotional health for team members and their loved ones.
• Career development programs to help you reach your goals, whether that means becoming a knowledge expert in your field or moving into another division.