Temporary EDI Business Analyst

McCormick & Company, Incorporated
, a global leader in flavor, is seeking an
Temporary Business Analyst – EBC (Electronic Business Collaboration)
for its Corporate Headquarters located in
Sparks, MD
. With $4 billion in annual sales, the company manufactures markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavorful products to the entire food industry – retail outlets, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Every day, no matter where or what you eat, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. McCormick Brings Passion to Flavor™.

As an employer recognized for our exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick & Co., Inc. offers a wide variety of benefits, programs and services which address the needs of employees and their families. McCormick’s benefits include, but are not limited to tuition assistance, medical & dental, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), paid holidays and vacations.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This posting is for a Temporary EBC Business Analyst in McCormick Shared Services. The eBC mission is to provide the foundation and support for consistent and accurate transactions sustained through GS1 global industry standards and best practices ensuring our customers, suppliers and business partners a competitive edge.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ability to effectively partner with the business and internal technical teams to ensure requirements are properly captured, documented, and agreed upon by all.
• Can work well cross functionally across the business and IS Teams
• Manage daily activities, issue resolution and communication across IS and business teams for the GDS platform
• Arrange and manage meetings with business and/or internal technical teams, providing minutes of those meetings.
• Working closely with Sales and other partners, contribute to project planning activities and provide regular status communications on GDSI issues and implementations.
• Coordinate with GDS development resources to and communication issues, resolutions and general updates
• Prepare change management documentation.
• Proven ability to manage business critical projects while proactively identifying and addressing urgent challenges.
• Need to be consistent on meeting customer and business expectations; which includes participating in recurring meetings and meeting project deadlines.
• Document relevant processes to be performed/completed by the Business.
• Willingness to execute master data updates in a manner that ensures accuracy and timeliness.
• Demonstrate the ability to receive a task and drive it to completion while working with team members to ensure success.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3-6 years’ experience with project management.
• 3-6 years’ experience with GDS systems support.
• Understanding of GS1 CPG standards, the fundamental structure of how they work, and complete understanding of GDS and GS1 industry trends.
• Working knowledge of database functionality to execute data blending and table management.
• Lead process mapping exercises and make recommendations to management on the appropriate enhancements and necessary changes based on business needs as well as current industry practices.
• Strong customer interaction skills leading to positive change.
• Proactively identify and initiate process improvements based on needs of the business and relevant industry standards.
• Team player with strong communication skills that can work well across the business and IS Teams.
• Must possess strong interpersonal and communication skills and be detail oriented. Ability to understand verbal and written communications, interpret and translate business and technical communications to ensure that both sides have common understanding.
• Familiarity with SAP ECC and/or SAP CRM is required.
• Ability to proactively understand details of various systems and applications, interactions between those applications, as well as to understand how various business rules affect system processes.
• Versatility and flexibility to understand and work with a wide variety of applications including SAP and Data Warehousing.
• Must possess ability to logically think through both requests and options to provide solutions that will satisfy needs into the future, minimize manual work and prevent errors.
• Must be highly motivated and possess the ability to work independently or with various team members, in various locations and/or remotely, and be able to handle multiple concurrent assignments within reason.
• Ability to produce quality deliverables within a scheduled timeframe.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.