Senior Data Analyst - Strategic Sourcing

Position Summary

This position will collaborate with Strategic Sourcing for STERIS to create an overall analytics strategy for the department. This role will be responsible for planning, organizing, and executing analytics in order to identify risk and create more effective and efficient ways related to strategic supply chain Management. The position will require prior experience with industry standard software tools and technologies. This involves gathering data requirements, report development, testing and support for analytical and operating systems, and potential development of supplier facing applications/portals..  The incumbent will be the Subject Matter Expert in the Supply Chain related applications, visualization in Tableau and/or Power BI, and will partner with the sites and sourcing teams to create new businesses processes and practices to help the Global Strategic Sourcing Organization operate in a World-Class manner. The position will require learning to implement the analytics processes on the department toolkits and generally staying abreast with changes in technology.

This is a hybrid role with the requirement of working onsite at our Mentor, OH location 3 days/week.

What You'll do as a Senior Data Analyst - Strategic Sourcing

• Provides an understanding of business and data requirements, and design visualizations for initial concepts and prototypes that can be presented to Strategic Sourcing, the business, and supply chain partners.
• Assist department leader with establishing overall analytical strategy and roadmap.
• Closely work with IT BI team to develop existing technology that enables quicker and better analytics.
• Performs detailed data analysis (determine data structures, content, and quality of the data through examination of source systems).
• Designs and creates data visualizations (reports and dashboards) using Tableau or Power BI as required.
• Responsibility for managing and executing Supply Chain systems and processes focused on sourcing, supplier relationship management, new product development, procure to pay cash cycles, Supplier facing forecasting along with system development/improvement. The individual will need to work as part of a regional and/or global team to improve and meet business targets.
• Develops and produces spend analysis, savings reporting, and other metrics to enable communications and decision making.
• Serves as SME (subject matter expert) on business intelligence database and online sourcing tools.
• Assists with Business Process development as it relates to systems for SS.
• Supports the training and usage of data analytics capabilities within the Supply Chain and operations teams.
• Work with Sourcing colleagues to continuously improve the department and achieve department goals.
• Identify and resolve data quality/integrity issues
• Troubleshoot BI and Analytics tools, systems and software; performance-tune applications as necessary
• Communicates and collaborates well with Supply Chain colleagues and the business leaders to strategize on impactful projects and deliver value added analytics to monitor key areas of the business.
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The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required

• Bachelor's Degree. 
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain or Operations or other related roles, OR
• Minimum 5 years of experience with advanced knowledge in data gathering, developing reports and dashboards, using industry standard software (Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop, or Power BI strongly preferred).

Other

• A working knowledge of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) applications (SAP, Oracle).
• A Mastery of data improvement and the transition of business requirements into relevant, shareable pieces of information.
• Exceptional planning, organization skills, attention to detail, communication and team skills.
• A history of effective Project Management.
• Ability to perform multi-source data consolidation.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to quickly recognize patterns and related activity.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem solving, organization, time management skills.
• Ability to understand client’s business needs and translate business needs into IT user requirements.
• Proficient in data analysis, defect identifications and resolutions.
• Ability to inspire and instill a common vision and framework.

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that support your health, well-being, and financial future. 

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive Pay.
• Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 added Holidays.
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and vision benefits.
• Long/Short Term Disability coverage.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Maternity & Paternity Leave.
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance.
• Tuition Reimbursement and continued educations programs.
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career.

STERIS does not accept unsolicited resumes/CV's from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. 

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