Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled Commodities Business Analyst to support our First Mile technology project, which aims to increase transparency and traceability in our supply chain. This is a key component of our sustainability, traceability, and impact work, and has become increasingly important due to recent EU regulations and stakeholder pressures.
The successful candidate will work within the larger global Transformation Team, providing commodity/business focus to assess, report, and assist with the deployment of the First Mile product in different businesses within the Group in various origin countries.
This role has a global scope, working with our different businesses to analyse from a commodities/business perspective by spending time in different origins to understand their business and record and analyse current ways of working to the point of implementation and post-implementation analysis.
Responsibilities
* Develop cross-commodity business insight to support the optimisation and development of business processes.
* Highlight future transformational changes, initially focusing on the First Mile projects, with an opportunity to develop further.
* Conduct discovery of origin as-is processes and compare and map differences compared to global ECOM process templates.
* Build relationships with origin teams to facilitate integration and adoption of new first mile technology.
* Build processes to improve data standardization, quality, and coverage, with a specific initial focus on EU regulation compliance.
* Prepare materials for various stakeholders.
* Work closely with Business teams to align on business requirements and ensure alignment with the First Mile projects.
* Make recommendations, propose standardisations, and prioritisation methodologies for Business teams within an agile project structure.
* Coordinate rollout plans for various projects and communicate these with the First Mile Change lead, Service team, and First Mile Project Manager.
* Provide updates and risks associated with activities assigned to the First Mile Product team in the format predefined for each project.
Requirements
* Minimum 2 years' experience as a Business Analyst within a project environment with a proven interest in working in a business process/transformation area.
* A degree in Business, Management, or related field or equivalent experience.
* Skills, knowledge, and experience within the commodity industry or in a supply chain environment is highly desirable.
* Knowledge and experience of communications planning and delivery to support change initiatives, and able to clearly articulate messages to a wide variety of audiences.
* Proven numeracy, analytical, and report writing skills.
* Ability to work independently and in a proactive manner.
* Excellent communication skills and ability to engage in proactive ways with various teams within origin countries.
* Strong attention to detail.
* Fluent English required.
* Spanish or/and French speaking would be desirable.