Senior Supply Chain Analytics Lead

WD; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

WD, a leader in data infrastructure, seeks a detail-orientedSupply Chain Analyst to drive cross-functional initiatives across logistics, planning, ERP, revenue and external audits. You will document processes, build analytics, and support system enhancements while identifying operational risks and opportunities for improvement.

You will collaborate with internal teams, suppliers and auditors to ensure accurate data, timely reporting and optimized inventory management across global warehouses.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Finance, Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 3-5+ years of experience in supply chain, Business analysis, Logistics, internal/external audit, revenue operations.
• Experience with ERP systems like Oracle, SAP.
• Exposure to Risk, Control and Audit tools
• Fluent withdocumenting process flows with Visio or Lucid Chartand implementing cross functional SOPs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Familiarity with BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar.
• Exposure to SOX, internal controls, or audit remediation.
• Experience supporting system automation and digital transformation initiatives with AI
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Implementing manufacturing and/or business process improvements that will increase capacity, reduce lead-time & eliminate non-value added.
• Planning supply and customer order fulfillment by analyzing and resolving daily supply plan mismatches to customer demand and orders
• Producing weekly material and capacity plans for the logistics warehouse.
• Driving closure of excess and obsolete inventory on a weekly basis.
• Driving daily closure of inquiries from internal customers.
• Performing reporting and analytics tasks by consolidating shipments, orders, inventory, forecasts, and related hub transactional data from a variety of business information systems such as Oracle to provide for an account overview for management reporting.
• Executing Oracle ERP quarterly activities and maintain production/inventory system for accurate data.
• Building reports and models to track actual orders against forecasted quantity.
• Measuring the performance of each supplier from an engineering, roadmap alignment, cost, quality, and delivery perspective.
• Measuring and analyzing cycle time for repetitive functions, such as mass production, order fulfillment and transportation.
• Providing accurate data for monthly business process updates and periodic customer sales forecast updates.
• Participate in ERP enhancement by requirements gathering, solution design, user acceptance testing (UAT), implementation, and post-implementation validation.
• Participating in fiscal period close by providing manufacturing variance analysis and inventory reserve validation.
• Perform monthly and quarterly inventory reconciliations across global warehouses, co-ordinate in variance investigation between systems.
• Performing variance analysis on how order fulfillment changes affect the supply chain inventory.
• Planning for inventory readiness to meet new product development activities to facilitate on time product launch and uninterrupted mass production.
• Securing that backlog is booked, scheduled, and shipped to meet the customer expected dock dates.
• Leading data collection of inputs from logistics operations/supply chain/engineering teams and coordinating cross functional review processes to set material standard cost to serve.
• Conferring with teams about product specifications, vendors about purchases, management personnel about manufacturing capabilities, and staff about the status of projects.
• Resolving daily supply plan mismatches to demand, producing weekly material and capacity plans for the factories, weekly closure of excess and obsolete inventory, and daily closure of inquiries from internal customers.

Skills

Supply Chain

Business Analysis

Logistics

Audit

Revenue Operations

Education

Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Finance, Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

WD, a leader in data infrastructure, seeks a detail-orientedSupply Chain Analyst to drive cross-functional initiatives across logistics, planning, ERP, revenue and external audits. You will document processes, build analytics, and support system enhancements while identifying operational risks and opportunities for improvement.

You will collaborate with internal teams, suppliers and auditors to ensure accurate data, timely reporting and optimized inventory management across global warehouses.