Summary
We are enhancing our First Mile projects as a key component for ECOM, an origin integrated trading company. These projects have been a long-standing focus of our sustainability, traceability, and impact work. Recent updates in EU regulations and increased stakeholder pressures emphasize the importance of data capture within our supply chain's first mile.
Our First Mile technology project is crucial to increasing transparency and traceability, supporting business and regulatory needs with timely deadlines. We aim to deliver a digital product that supports ECOM's sustainable commitments across all commodities. This project operates in an agile environment, adapting to changing regulations and requirements over time.
The Role
The Commodities Business Analyst will join our global Transformation Team, providing commodity/business insights to assess, report, and deploy the First Mile product across different businesses and countries.
This role is based in London, with a global scope. The analyst will spend time in various origins to understand local business operations and analyze current processes to inform implementation and post-implementation analysis.
Responsibilities
Key tasks include:
* Developing cross-commodity business insights to optimize business processes
* Identifying future transformational changes, initially focusing on First Mile projects, with opportunities for further development
* Conducting discovery of origin as-is processes and comparing them to global ECOM process templates
* Building relationships with origin teams to facilitate integration and adoption of new first-mile technology
* Establishing processes to improve data standardization, quality, and coverage, with an initial focus on EU regulation compliance
* Preparing materials for various stakeholders
* Collaborating with Business teams to align on business requirements and ensure alignment with First Mile projects
* Making recommendations, proposing standardizations, and prioritization methodologies for Business teams within an agile project structure
* Coordinating rollout plans for various projects and communicating these with the First Mile Change lead, Service team, and First Mile Project Manager
* Providing updates and risks associated with activities assigned to the First Mile Product team in predefined formats
Skills & Experience:
* Minimum 2 years' experience as a business analyst in 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
* Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience within the commodity industry or in a supply chain environment
* Knowledge and experience of communications planning and delivery to support change initiatives, with the ability to clearly articulate messages to diverse audiences
* Proven numeracy, analytical, and report writing skills
* Ability to work independently and proactively
* Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with various teams in origin countries
* Strong attention to detail
* Fluent English required; Spanish or French speaking desirable