Robotics Supply Chain Strategist: Data-Driven & Strategic

Tennant Company; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Tennant Company in Minnesota invites aStrategic Supply Chain Analyst Robotics to join the Robotics Venture Supply Chain team. The role focuses on data-driven strategies for Robotics categories, risk visibility, and supply continuity, blending strategic material planning, sourcing, and category management with advanced analytics.

You'll develop dashboards and insights using Power BI and Excel, support allocation and last-time-buy analyses, and drive cross-functional decisions to protect revenue

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Finance, Business, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of applicable work experience in supply chain analytics, strategic sourcing, procurement, materials management, or a related field, preferably within a manufacturing or production environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including experience with financial and operational modeling.
• Experience working with ERP material and planning data, such as SAP MM/PP, J-Cube, or comparable systems.
• Experience developing actionable dashboards and insights using Power BI, Tableau, or a comparable data visualization platform.
• Working knowledge of material master and procurement planning parameters, SIOP, inventory controls, supplier capacity, and procurement processes.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize incomplete or conflicting data, translate findings into executive-ready recommendations, and effectively manage multiple concurrent priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support allocation process for constrained autonomy category parts across programs, plants, builds and demand priorities by reconciling critical data inputs and recommending allocation scenarios; communicate changes to affected stakeholders to ensure production is protected with highest business priority
• Track and validate autonomy category forecast changes can be met by supply base, surface risks early to ensure timely actions protect long term supply continuity.
• Provide data analytics for last time buy scenarios timely, track completion of the last time buys in order to mitigate risk and protect working capital.
• Analyze critical categories of Robotics parts across the network for optimum inventory positioning strategies, taking into consideration market trends, modeling total cost impact, collaborating with stakeholders to execute changes. Develop analytics for risk assessment of supply for critical Robotics parts to drive action that protect revenue generation and growth.
• Leverage existing tools (ERP, Power BI, advanced excel) for reporting and create new ones to enable Robotics specific insights, enabling leaders to receive timely, decision-ready insights with reduced manual reporting and faster escalation of exception

Skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Data analytics

Dashboard development

Executive-ready recommendations

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Finance, Business, or related quantitative discipline

Tools

SAP MM/PP

J-Cube

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Tennant Company in Minnesota invites aStrategic Supply Chain Analyst Robotics to join the Robotics Venture Supply Chain team. The role focuses on data-driven strategies for Robotics categories, risk visibility, and supply continuity, blending strategic material planning, sourcing, and category management with advanced analytics.

You'll develop dashboards and insights using Power BI and Excel, support allocation and last-time-buy analyses, and drive cross-functional decisions to protect revenue