Senior Analyst- Supply Chain Advanced Analytics

General Mills; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills in Mumbai is seeking a data-driven analytics professional to support supply chain challenges through robust data modeling and insights. You will translate business questions into analytical solutions, build models, and communicate findings to stakeholders.

The role prioritizes data quality, model development, and proactive improvement of analytic processes, with responsibilities spanning data cleaning, exploratory analysis, and scenario testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics or related subject.
• 3+ years of experience in supply chain analytics.
• Strong ability to translate business asks into mathematical models and think creatively.

Responsibilities

• Understand business objectives and analyze supply chain challenges.
• Assess data feasibility and evaluate data completeness, availability, and accuracy.
• Process and cleanse data to ensure integrity and reliability.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover trends and root causes.
• Develop and implement descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive models using statistical methods or ML techniques.
• Perform scenario planning and what-if analyses to evaluate business impact.
• Mentor analysts and ensure analytical rigor in deliverables.
• Drive process improvements and automate workflows where possible.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Key Accountabilities

Analytics & Modeling:

• Understand business objectives Analyze supply chain challenges, define scope, and set success criteria.
• Data feasibility assessment – Evaluate completeness, availability, and accuracy of supply chain data.
• Data processing & cleansing – Handle missing data, outliers, and inconsistencies to ensure data integrity.
• Exploratory analysis – Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) to uncover trends and root causes.
• Develop & implement data science models – Apply descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analysis through statistical, optimization, or machine learning techniques to solve key supply chain problems.
• Scenario planning & sensitivity analysis – Perform "What-If" analysis to evaluate business impact under different scenarios.
• Independent problem-solver – Effectively executes tasks with minimal supervision while ensuring high productivity.
• Manages moderately complex projects – Handles challenging but structured analytical problems, ensuring timely and impactful solutions.

Process Improvement:

• Enhance modeling efficiency – Drive process automation, identify opportunities to automate workflows and eliminate redundant tasks
• Mentorship & validation – Guides analysts, reviews their work, and ensures analytical rigor in deliverables.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university (Full Time) in Business Analytics or a related subject area
• +3 years of related experience in Supply chain analytics
• Strong analytic ability to translate business ask into mathematical model and ability to think “out of the box” & strong analytical skills.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, leveraging advanced functions for data analysis, visualization, and effective business storytelling

Preferred Qualifications

• Post graduation in Industrial Engineering, statistics or Supply Chain operations
• Professional Certifications for supply chain and Data science
• Learning Agility – driven by curiosity and a passion for continuous learning, always seeking to understand the "why" behind concepts