Senior Sourcing Data & Insights Analyst (Hybrid)

Grainger; Lake Forest (IL); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Grainger, a leading broad line distributor, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Sourcing Operations. You will partner with leadership to solve strategic issues, design dashboards, and drive data-driven decisions that improve operations and performance across Grainger's sourcing functions. Travel to local and international offices may be required.

The role emphasizes analytics, stakeholder management, and delivering measurable value through structured data analyses and KPI design.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience solving diverse and complex business problems
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with proven ability to translate information into recommendations and solutions
• Highly skilled at analyzing large data sets to drive fact-based decision making and recommendations
• Demonstrated ability creating visual reporting dashboards to evaluate business performance and uncover opportunities for improvement
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build presentations in PowerPoint and present to various levels and groups
• Broad business knowledge and understanding of profitability drivers
• Technical experience with data warehousing systems (e.g. Teradata, SQL, etc.), SAP, PowerBI, and Microsoft suite

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sourcing leadership to understand challenges and opportunities and formulate hypotheses
• Develop and design Sourcing dashboards to capture workflows and drive actionable insights
• Provide data-driven analyses to evaluate hypotheses and support strategic vision
• Lead data gathering and analysis to test hypotheses and inform decision making
• Perform ad hoc analytics to support strategy and communicate findings to leadership
• Collaborate across Grainger to gather internal/external voice of customer for metric design
• Manage the department's reporting and data landscape for leadership oversight
• Lead new reporting design and implementation initiatives
• Occasional travel to local and international offices and customer sites

Skills

Problem solving

Data analysis

Dashboards

Verbal & written communication

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field

Tools

PowerBI

SQL

Teradata

Microsoft Excel

SAP

Job description

Grainger, a leading broad line distributor, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Sourcing Operations. You will partner with leadership to solve strategic issues, design dashboards, and drive data-driven decisions that improve operations and performance across Grainger's sourcing functions. Travel to local and international offices may be required.

The role emphasizes analytics, stakeholder management, and delivering measurable value through structured data analyses and KPI design.