Supply Chain Analyst

Foods Connected; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid working environment

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Job summary

Foods Connected is seeking a Supply Chain Analyst – Protein to transform complex meat and protein data into tangible opportunities for Europe’s leading retailers and manufacturers.

You will join the protein and strategic procurement team, work on live customer projects, and contribute to value delivery through data onboarding, platform demonstrations, and workshops. This is a hybrid role with growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 2+ years’ experience in an analytical role.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and comfortable building models with large datasets.
• Strong PowerPoint skills for presenting insights clearly.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large customer datasets (yield, costing, carcass, supplier and market data).
• Build and maintain carcass balance, cut-out value and costing models; benchmark against market indices.
• Quantify opportunities such as yield improvement and cost reduction with ROI calculations.
• Produce market reports and trend analyses providing commercial context.
• Deliver client projects from kickoff to go-live including data onboarding and validation.
• Configure and demonstrate the platform; run customer workshops; present reports to clients.
• Build dashboards that provide ROI evidence and track improvements.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Strong communication

Client-focused

ROI thinking

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT US!

Foods Connected is an award winning cloud based software platform that helps retailers and food companies across the world manage their supply chain, quality control, and trading and planning management. Our software solutions are currently utilised by 10 of the largest food retailers in the world. As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business.At Foods Connected, we recognise that our employees are our most important asset and we value creating a great working environment to ensure our team enjoy, working together and solving problems for our customers. Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a Teams call discussing project statuses, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.

We’re always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our expanding team.

So if you’re driven, detail oriented, and passionate about working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment... we’re looking for you!

IS THIS SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU?

As our Supply Chain Analyst – Protein, you will turn complex meat and protein data into clear, quantified opportunities for some of Europe’s largest food retailers and manufacturers. You will work as part of the Foods Connected protein and strategic procurement team, on live customer projects on Protein Optimise and Strategic Procurement.

This is an analytical role at the heart of our customer work. With a growing customer base across Europe’s food retail and protein sectors, this role gives the right candidate direct impact on how we deliver value to new and existing clients, and a clear route to grow with the business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Customer Data Analysis & Insight

• Analyse large customer datasets (yield, costing, carcass, supplier and market data), ensuring data quality and flagging anomalies early.
• Build and maintain carcass balance, cut-out value and costing models, benchmarking performance against market indices.
• Quantify opportunities such as yield improvement and material cost reduction, showing calculations and assumptions.
• Produce market reports and trend analyses that give customers clear commercial context.

Customer Projects & Engagement

• Deliver client projects with the implementation team, from kick-off to go-live, including data onboarding and validation.
• Configure and demonstrate the platform, and run customer workshops.
• Be a regular, reliable presence for existing accounts, presenting reports and recommendations with confidence.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Build reporting and dashboards that give customers better insight, and evidence outcomes and ROI.
• Improve and standardise our analytical methods and templates; keep project plans current and flag risks early.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 2+ years’ experience in an analytical role, ideally within a food or meat manufacturing background; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, comfortable building models and working with large datasets.
• Strong PowerPoint skills, with the ability to build and deliver clear, concise presentations.
• Ability to spot continuous improvement opportunities and articulate their ROI.
• Quantitative and analytical, with a rigorous approach to accuracy.
• Clear communicator who can explain complex data simply to different audiences.
• Collaborative and client focused, building strong relationships across teams and with customers.
• Takes ownership and delivers high-quality outcomes with discipline and resilience.

Desirable

• Experience in the meat or protein industry (beef, pork, lamb or poultry).
• Understanding of livestock deconstruction, carcass balance, yield management and product costing.
• Experience analysing customer or production data in detail to identify savings and opportunities.
• Experience with software systems in a food industry context, covering production, supplier management or procurement.
• Experience supporting customer projects, implementations or workshops.

BENEFITS:

• Competitive base salary.
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid working environment.
• Generous holiday package: 25 days plus 10 public holidays & Your Birthday Off.
• Private healthcare and employee wellness classes.
• Clear career development and progression.
• CSR Day per year to give back to causes that matter to you