Senior Business Analyst (214076-886)

Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, LLC - A Yum! Brands Co-op; Louisville (KY); Híbrido; USD 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Vacation

Floating Holidays

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Descripción de la vacante

A leading restaurant supply chain company in Louisville, Kentucky is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to enhance supply planning through effective utilization of Blue Yonder. This role will involve maintaining system performance, managing data sources, and collaborating with teams to improve planning processes. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management. The position supports a hybrid working model offering various benefits.

Formación

• Minimum of 5 years business experience with supply planning data systems.
• Demonstrated abilities in business process improvement.
• Prefer APICS CPIM certification or Six Sigma Green Belt.

Responsabilidades

• Drive Blue Yonder operational health and continuity.
• Manage Blue Yonder user access and permissions.
• Represent the Central Planning organization in cross-functional initiatives.

Conocimientos

Supply Chain Management

Data analysis

Project management

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor’s degree

Supply Chain Management degree

Herramientas

Blue Yonder

Microsoft Office Suite

PowerBI

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, LLC, a Yum! Brands Co-op, is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the Central Planning Team. RSCS has invested in a broad scaled technology initiative with Blue Yonder (BY) to provide end to end visibility and ensure supply continuity for $7B+ in critical Yum! Brand food and packaging components which support 16,000+ restaurants and $20B in revenue across Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, and Habit Burger & Grill in the United States. Reporting to the Senior Director of Supply Planning, the Senior Business Analyst will support the end users in coordinating all technical aspects of the BY system (both Demand and Fulfillment). The overarching mission of the role is to maximize the effectiveness of the end users by keeping the BY system running at top performance and with the best data available. Further, the Senior Business Analyst will seek out and lead projects to help RSCS continuously evolve its supply planning capability to higher levels of capability and maturity.

Hybrid: 3 days in the office, 2 days remote.

Excellent Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Vacation, Floating Holidays, Maternity/Paternity Leave and much more.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Blue Yonder operational health and continuity. Ensure ongoing stability, usability, and performance of Blue Yonder to support day-to-day planning operations.
• Own the onboarding of new data sources, partners, and planning scenarios, ensuring changes are well-designed, validated, and smoothly adopted with minimal operational disruption.
• Manage Blue Yonder user access and permissions in alignment with internal audit and governance requirements.
• Maintain a strong working understanding of how planning data flows across systems to support accurate and reliable decision-making.
• Represent the Central Planning organization as a senior contributor in cross-functional initiatives and technology upgrades, advocating for planning process needs and system readiness.
• Function as a project coordinator and business representative in partnership with RSCS IT for new integrations, enhancements, reporting initiatives, and system improvements.
• Advance planning processes through enhanced Blue Yonder utilization by serving as the senior subject-matter expert and providing thought leadership on how the platform is used to support and advance supply chain planning strategy.
• Lead the definition, documentation, and continuous improvement of planning business processes, ensuring Blue Yonder capabilities align to current and future-state operating models.
• Partner closely with Plantensive, Brand, and Central Planning teams to shape planning assumptions and workflows, proactively identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, visibility, and planning quality.
• Implement the expansion and maturation of Blue Yonder utilization, recommending new use cases, features, or process changes that align with the evolution of planning capabilities.
• Serve as the primary owner for planning reports and insights: create business requirements for reporting needs, partner with the business analytics team to implement reporting functionality, identify opportunities to streamline reporting, and address ad hoc or weekly reporting needs as they arise.
• Maintain hands-on planning responsibility to inform analysis and insight: own planning responsibility for a defined category (approximately 30-50 items) to maintain a deep understanding of planning execution and business realities.
• Ensure supply across core and promotional sales, leveraging Blue Yonder to create and execute supply plans and adjust fulfillment forecasts as needed.
• Collaborate with suppliers, distributors and redistributors, internal procurement team, and concept hub teams to ensure consensus understanding, preparedness, and execution.
• Maximize supply flexibility while minimizing cost implications and risk of obsolescence; ensure the right products/ingredients are in the right location and at the right time. Monitor capacity utilization; mitigate risk of product expiration; maintain network inventory targets; resolve fulfillment plan inaccuracies.
• Stay current on industry trends and best practices in supply chain planning and digital enablement, proactively recommending improvements that increase planning maturity and business value. Perform additional duties as required to support operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Core Competencies

• Advanced understanding of Supply Chain Management (SCM) end-to-end business processes; including systems utilized.
• Strong investigational skills, attention to detail, accuracy, and ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Comfortable in an environment where answers are not clearly defined through documented SOPs. Must like discovering solutions through research and trial and error.
• Inspire trust and confidence, communicate effectively with internal and external audiences, and demonstrate ability to maintain outstanding customer relations.
• Professional and culturally astute communication skills (both written and verbal), including ability to generate and deliver executive-level presentations.
• Demonstrated abilities in business process improvement, innovation, and planning.
• Solid customer service and/or business consulting skills. Demonstrated abilities in developing relationships with colleagues, customers, executives, and vendors to influence, facilitate and enhance SCM best practices.
• Capable of being persuasive and able to lead teams through notable change.

Key Contacts/Interfaces

• RSCS Supply and Demand Planning Teams
• Blue Yonder Cloud Support Team
• RSCS and Brand IT Teams
• RSCS Data Management
• RSCS Procurement
• RSCS Commodity Risk Management
• Suppliers
• Distributors and Redistributors

Required Education, Experience and Skills

• Minimum of 5 years business experience, including two or more years managing supply planning data systems in an environment that leverages a high volume of transactional data for inventory, demand forecasting, and fulfillment planning.
• Prefer experience at an organization supporting supply planning, manufacturing, or distribution for QSR.
• Bachelor’s degree required. Prefer Supply Chain Management degree.
• Prefer APICS CPIM certification, Six Sigma Green Belt, or ISM CPSM certification.
• Required technical experience: Supply Chain Planning/ERP Solutions (i.e.: Blue Yonder, Oracle, SAP, Logility), Microsoft Office Suite, Analytics (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.), Coordination driving performance of third-party Cloud Service providers, Oracle SQL (queries to identify data issues), and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Prefer Blue Yonder Expertise: Comprehension of data models, tables, and columns and recent implementation or upgrade.