Supply Chain Analyst- Release Management

Schedule
Monday- Friday 7:30am- 4:00pm; Weekends and Evenings as needed

General Summary

Responsible for retrieving, interpreting, and analyzing data to drive key business decisions and actions, measure program efficacy, support all software applications, and contribute to strategic direction. Will help drive the success of WellSpan and Supply Chain by providing business analyses and analytical solutions to guide management and operational decision-making. The individual will work on projects and products dealing with operational performance metrics tracking, predictive and prescriptive analytics, demand forecasting, supply planning, supplier data collaboration, process automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning modeling, financial and business assessments of potential strategic initiatives and other ad hoc requests. The solutions will lead to transformative, strategic recommendations. Works collaboratively with associates across different levels, functions, business units and regions to support all data and analytical products. Works with other teams across the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACoE), participates as a catalyst for maintaining the product life cycle, focusing on system strategic goals and objectives, assisting customers with formulating appropriate data and analytics questions that will lead to analyses which will reveal relevant insights. Assists stakeholders with interpreting results in the form of interactive graphs, charts, and other analytical tools. Collaborates with developers and end users to ensure technical requirements and specifications reflect appropriate business logic. Engages with various groups within WellSpan to gather business requirements while ensuring that these requirements align to the various transactional and analytics products existing or currently underway. There will be opportunities to enhance business processes and the requirement to build test scripts and support functional testing. This position will leverage the analytics spectrum to tell a story with the data, working with subject matter experts (SMEs) and leadership at all levels to ensure the application of the most appropriate approach for each business need. This position requires the soft skill of storytelling through data, by turning technical information into easy-to-understand non-technical action items. Confidence in presentation of findings and excellent communication skills are desired. This position requires the ability to view business problems from varying perspectives and continuously display curiosity and "out-of-the-box" thinking.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Works with partners across the WellSpan business domains to gather detailed business requirements. Point person for collation of requirements and subsequent sharing and obtaining of sign offs. Defines testing approach and strategy and helps execute this strategy during test phases of projects.
• Works with internal and external SMEs to define the functional and technical design to support business processing requirements for transactional processing and data and analytics products.
• Works with the Leadership and Process Owners to ensure optimal performance and delivery throughout the lifecycle of the product. Tracks and communicates status to wider team and leadership as needed.
• Collaborates with the team on test plan development, designs test strategy and coordinates the functional testing process.
• Assists customers with formulating appropriate process design and data questions to meet business and strategic needs.
• Able to take a business question or need and turn it into a process design and/or data question for the purpose of transforming functions and analyzing data to extract an answer or resolution to that question or need.
• Supports the ACoE data and analytics strategy, processes, technical architecture, and design of subject areas.
• Collaborates with developers and end users to ensure technical requirements and specifications reflect appropriate business logic, formulating product enhancement requests where appropriate.
• Supports system-wide data integrity, quality control and standardization as identified by system leaders and/or system level teams.

Common Expectations:

• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings, and workshops.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

Minimum Education:

• Associates Degree Required
• Bachelors Degree Preferred

Work Experience:

• 3 years Relevant experience Required and
• Information Technology/Computer Science/Data & Analytics Required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Business Analysis
• Project and Change Management
• Data Story Telling, Teamwork
• Written and Verbal Communication
• Process Documentation
• Customer Service.

Benefits Offered:

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Education assistance
• Financial education and support, including DailyPay
• Expanded Paid Parental Leave

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