Business Operations Leader: Analytics & Strategy

Medline Industries, LP; Northfield Township (IL); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

Medline Industries, LP, headquartered in Northfield, IL, seeks a Manager of Business Operations to lead a team of operations analysts and specialists. This hybrid role focuses on inventory management, analytics, forecast/demand planning, and cost optimization to inform leadership decisions and drive performance.

You will guide cross-functional efforts, develop operational strategies, and ensure consistent, high-quality analytical support across divisions.

Qualifications

• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience controlling and coordinating concurrent projects, competing priorities and critical deadlines.
• Experience and skills in influencing, leading and directing individuals in multiple functional areas.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team, creating and maintaining a motivated workforce, both domestic and overseas. Provide leadership and guidance to BOA’s and Managers, foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, offering strategic guidance and recommending innovative solutions to address their challenges and opportunities.
• Responsible for developing and executing business operational strategy aligning with business goals and priorities.
• Implement best practices for process improvement and operational expense optimization. Ensure new processes are in alignment with standardization focus of the organization.
• Collaborate with senior leadership among cross functional teams to ensure optimal visibility to business performance is in alignment with cross department needs.
• Hiring staff, recommending pay increases, performing performance reviews, training and development of staff, estimating personnel needs, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring consistent application of organizational policies.

Skills

People leadership

Data analysis

Project coordination

PowerPoint

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or related field

Tools

SAP

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Medline Industries, LP, headquartered in Northfield, IL, seeks a Manager of Business Operations to lead a team of operations analysts and specialists. This hybrid role focuses on inventory management, analytics, forecast/demand planning, and cost optimization to inform leadership decisions and drive performance.

You will guide cross-functional efforts, develop operational strategies, and ensure consistent, high-quality analytical support across divisions.