Business Analyst, Inventory

The Business Analyst will join a team to generate insights that will guide our operational strategy and day to-day-execution. The Business Analyst role will be gathering customer insights, mining data, making recommendations, and helping senior leaders make key business decisions. This position will work closely with the operations team to shape the structure and support the business.

This position requires high judgment, excellent analytical abilities, a creative mind to invent solutions to improve the customer delivery experience; it also offers broad exposure to various business, financial, and technical teams across DSV.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

OTHER DUTIES

• Performs other duties as required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• None

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education and/or Experience

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  • Bachelor's degree.
  • 2 years' experience in Warehouse or Distribution Operations
  
  
  
  

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Professional Designations

• None

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES

Computer Skills

• Must possess excellent computer skills but not limited to MS Office Suite (including Excel, pivot tables and formulas), windows, or Visio.

Language Skills

• English (reading, writing, verbal)

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to handle basic statistical control methods.

Other

Accountability

• Willingness to take personal responsibility for actions and the delivery of results
• Ability to adhere to standards
• Internally motivated and works well under pressure

Quality

• Strong problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to follow proper communication channels to initiate action
• Ability to effectively manage own time, multi-task, and prioritize for optimal output
• Continually seeking process improvement and innovation
• Impeccable attention to detail, passion for processes and systems.

Technical

• Ability to learn new systems and tools quickly
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to implement and validate corrective and preventative actions
• MS Office (Access, Excel, pivot tables) expertise

Communication

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, ability to coordinate and motivate self and others.
• Willing to ask questions to gain a better understanding of requirements and develop continuous improvement ideas.
• Comfortable communicating with individuals throughout all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a matrix environment. Must work well across multiple units across the company.

Business Understanding

• Understanding of the company's business strategy, vision, and operations as well as regional working relationships.
• Ability to gain knowledge and understanding of Client specific strategic objectives

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 2 years' experience in distribution operations preferred with emphasis in Logistics or Supply Chain Management, Business, or Sales and Marketing.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee rarely is exposed to cold, warm, hot humidity weather conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.