Senior Business Analyst

6 days ago


Lake Forest, Illinois, United States Grainger Businesses Full time
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our team at Grainger Businesses. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play a critical role in providing insights that help Supplier Management to prioritize work, identify opportunities and risks, and use standard tools and reports that support standard work.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop tools that help weigh decisions, recommendations, and actions against their material impact on the bottom line
  • Collaborate and work with team members across supplier management to improve cost management, ensure reliable supply, and ignite profitable growth
  • Help to improve standardized processes across multiple departmental projects that help guide efficiency gains for team members
  • Help with strategic planning, review, and implementation to ensure portfolio recommendations are deployed across the business
  • Use data and market insights to meet end-to-end needs across the business to improve customer and team member experience
  • Ensure new tool development enables standard work and is additive to the productivity and effectiveness of Supplier Managers
Requirements:
  • BS/BA degree in engineering, technology, marketing, or business preferred. MBA preferred
  • 5+ years business experience with a working knowledge of Supply Chain Management, Cost Accounting, Finance and Economics
  • Experience managing large data sets and utilizing advanced analytical tools to construct compelling narratives
  • Comfortable building and delivering presentations to management, staff, and field audiences
  • Must understand Grainger's business direction, customer requirements, supply management-marketing strategy, and demand generation fulfillment process
  • Experience driving and demonstrating results financially, strategically, and managerially
  • Clear understanding of suppliers, customers, Grainger's strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Can apply thought process to construct executable plans
  • Clear knowledge of the negotiation process and important stages: Set expectations. Maintain relationships.
  • Change Management skills - inspiring teams to welcome change, embrace new directions, and future opportunities. Anticipate change and prepare for it by defining goals, responsibilities, and time frames
Benefits:
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
  • Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year
  • Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period
  • Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations, and tuition reimbursement
  • A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical, and social wellbeing programs

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.



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