Job Details

Role: BA with Supply Chain

Location: Remote/US

Duration: 6+ Months

Job Description:

Domain: Healthcare

Position Summary
The Business Analyst (BA) provides cross-functional leadership and support for management, deployment, and analysis of enterprise Master Data (ERP) and the development and maintenance of data feeds and export solutions to various reporting databases (DDM/COGNOS, SFDC, Customer Portal, GDR, etc). In addition the BA will support development and maintenance of Operational reporting, analytics, and metrics/KPIs as well as support Commercial Operations data management functions for price/cost maintenance and analysis. Reporting to the PCS Director, IT the BA will work closely with IT and across the organization to ensure accurate and timely availability of business data and data interchanges as well as support the enablement and improvement of BI solutions. This role requires an individual with self-motivation, excellent facilitation and analytical skills, and a broad understanding of the key business technology systems and applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Summary Responsibilities - All Areas

• Work closely with PCS IT leadership to provide business requirements and operationalization support for:
  
  • Key operational and/or commercial improvement projects involving ERP or integrated system development.
  • Required legacy ERP (A+) enhancements
• Solicit, analyze and document business process activities and business requirements
• Develop and document functional requirements for business solutions
• Create and execute test scripts, capture defects, verify fixes and report updates
• Support functional, end-to-end, regression, and smoke testing
• Troubleshoot issues, identify problems and develop practical solutions
• Support change management processes
• Draft required updates to SOPs and develop training materials

• Works with Operations functional leadership and IT to define and provide the most effective and efficient reporting strategy and structure for the operational and cross functional reporting needs, such as metrics/KPIs, open order review tools and metrics, supplier performance, and ad hoc operational data analysis
• Provide data analysis needed to support PPI projects, process improvement initiatives, and development of new business and IT processes
• Work closely with Sr IT Analyst and functional leaders to clearly define user requirements and assist in determining appropriate application of technology to address process improvement initiatives
• Participate in Operational Leadership meetings and business reviews and provide required data analysis support for cross functional projects and initiatives.

• Work closely with IT and functional business leadership to develop and maintain data management solutions and data integrity in the PCS ERP as the primary single point of reference.
• Ensure proper extension of ERP data to integrated applications such as SFDC, Overdrive, EDI, Customer Portal, etc.
• Support the development of quote to cash data solutions to enable the business growth of intercompany and supply chain services transaction models.
• Supports and enables PCC's BI strategy by ensuring BI and reporting data sources/applications (COGNOS/DDM, SFDC, Power BI, GDR, etc.) are maintained and updated as needed to support the reporting and BI needs of the business.
• Serve as an operational business process and data subject matter expert (SME) for training, process improvement, and data improvements. .
• Develop and maintain methods for monitoring the key data feed/integration processes to ensure timely and accurate execution of these processes and work with IT and functional leadership to quickly resolve associated problems.
• Work with IT and Commercial Operations to support company price/cost maintenance functions and applications including annual price roll, nightly ERP pricing jobs, and resolution of vendor rebate discrepancies.
• Support the Sales and Finance functions with Sales territory and account alignment/changes

• Ability to think strategically about business strategies, process, and priorities
• Experience transforming underlying data into functional data sets in order to generate meaningful insights
• Previous experience accessing, manipulating and interpreting data to inform decision-making.
• Advanced skills in data visualization and analysis tools - experience with Power BI or Tableau preferred. Working with large, multi-dimensional data sets to uncover meaningful insights
• Must be able to work effectively / multi-task as a member of a Team and in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced knowledge and experience IT systems including Excel, Cognos/EDW, Infor A+ ERP, DAX, SQL, DBU and other data management tool sets
• Excellent analytical and teamwork skills, ability to organize and analyze large sets of data into meaningful and concise reports and propose solutions to management
• Must be self-confident, assertive, and self-motivated with ability to work independently with minimal supervision

1. Be an Industrious, Reliable Team Member
2. Have a "Customer Service" approach to relationships with internal and external associates
3. Be Vigorous and Enthusiastic
4. Be detail oriented and be accustomed to working on multiple tasks
5. Be people sensitive, friendly and accepting of varying cultures, and be effective working with superiors, peer group, and subordinates
6. Collaborative in nature and in approach to the business world
7. Be comfortable in an environment where open communication is part of the corporate culture.
8. Be Genuine - Have strong personal integrity and be open and honest in all dealings