Demand Planning Business Analyst

Title: Demand Planning Business Analyst

Location: Portland, OR Area

Type: 6 month contract

Job: LA35402959

Here’s a chance to take your skills to the limit, learn new ones and enhance your resume. We are seeking a Demand Planning Business Analyst for our client, who is based in Portland and leading the way in retail, merchandising, supply chain and e-Commerce initiatives Worldwide!

This is a 6 month contract position with company-paid benefits available. You’ll want this company on your resume!

Project Scope:
Description

As the Demand Planning Product Analyst, you’ll be helping the Product Manager and Product Owner in delivering Demand Planning capabilities to our business users. The primary role of this product analyst will be to assist with the creation, enhancement and support of capabilities through collaboration with developers and end users.

Responsibilities:

• Interface with Supply Chain business users and testers in support of the product development and production support to help them solve issues.
• Discuss requirements with Supply Chain Product Manager and Product Owner to understand the gaps in existing solutions and to propose, assess and analyze the various solution options.
• Work with client’s business needs and goals in mind to help client’s business teams win.
• Support the Product Team to complete analysis in support of Epic to Story decomposition and defining acceptance criteria for stories.
• Help Product Owner/Manager refine business requirements and features into technical requirements.
• Translate end-user requirements into workable stories that are to be developed and implemented.
• Perform data analysis in Teradata, MySQL, and Oracle databases, to support the analysis, design and testing of the new features and solution.
• Work as a member of the Agile Team collaborating with the engineering work, system configuration work, and testing of applications such as SAP APO-Demand Planning, IBM Cognos, web-based applications on Angular-JS and Node-JS.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable end-to-end solutions and implementation.
• Drive meetings with teams on discussing solution options and clarifying the solutions to technical development teams
• Deliver quality inputs in meetings such as daily scrum, weekly status reviews, sprint planning and backlog review as part of Agile methodology
• Construct job-aids to assist end users readily easily use the applications and the new functions developed to ensure optimal usage.
• Create and prioritize Change Management tickets by working with Service Management teams to ensure timely and effective deployment of solutions into production environment

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or another relevant business/technology field.
• Prior knowledge and experience working with SAP products is preferred.
• Capability development experience in demand planning or supply chain planning or operations.
• Detail oriented and commitment to building high-quality solutions
• 5+ years of additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree
• Understanding and experience of Agile development frameworks (Scrum and Kanban)
• Hands-on experience building, configuring and supporting complex Demand Planning and Forecasting capabilities, with SAP experience preferred
• Hands-on experience building and supporting data extract and load processes between systems.
• Hands-on experience building and supporting operational reporting capabilities.
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners
• Strong understanding of customer needs and business strategy/process
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Storytelling and creation of supporting visuals
• Passion for improving Planning & Supply capabilities

**No Corp to Corp or 3rd party resumes can be accepted for this position.**

At IGNW (formerly InfoGroup Northwest), we use our deep technical insights, local market knowledge and rock-solid relationships and reputation to create exceptional business outcomes for people and companies every day. We are based in Portland, OR with global partnerships to deliver the industry’s top technical solutions and talent to every one of our clients. Our clients, consultants, contractors, partners and employees choose IGNW because we tackle the tough problems, and we care deeply about people while we do it.

We are proud to foster a great team working environment, to offer highly competitive compensation and to offer full benefits packages including medical, FSA, dental and vision. If you would like to learn more, join our team or explore how IGNW can benefit your business, please reach out today!!

Please note: Our clients may require that candidates pass a drug and/or background check.

To apply, please send your resume to: resumes@infogroupnw.com

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