Lead Global Application Analyst

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Job Description

The Lead Global Application Analyst is responsible for ensuring that the Orchestr8 (O8) system configurations are accurate and meet business requirements to help create a competitively advantaged supply chain for Fortune Brands Innovations. Responsibilities include partnering and collaborating effectively across all levels of Supply Chain globally to advance a center-led approach of governance and help achieve sustainable customer experience, cost and inventory productivity outcomes. Collectively, these activities will create value by capturing synergies, improving overall supply chain performance, and enabling business growth.

This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule based in North Olmsted, Ohio. 

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

• Gatekeeper of overall O8 configuration integrity. Responsible for ensuring that O8 system configurations are accurate and meet business requirements. The scope of this role includes the O8 Supply Planning and Demand Planning modules across FBIN and relevant parameters in the host ERP system.
• Owner of master configuration document. Responsible for keeping the master configuration document updated.
• First contact point for power-users, planners, and buffer managers for system configuration related questions. Also partner with O8 and FBIN IT to seek guidance and solve problems. Manage Jira tickets with internal and software teams.
• Provide governance oversight and expertise to buffer managers and planners related to various configurations. Oversee diagnosis of major issues, enabling users to be more self-sufficient.
• Develop and validate analytics products to advance business processes in collaboration with supply chain planning, supply chain analytics, software developers and software implementation teams. May include manager reports, buffer quality reports, configuration reports, etc.
• Deep dive specific problems to analyze and identify solutions that impact service levels and inventory. Provide feedback to members of the organization impacted by the problem to brainstorm and communicate the solution.
• Identify and execute continuous improvement analyses and actions in O8 including performing simulations to refine the master configuration for optimal service, inventory levels and maximized efficiency.
• Responsible for convening the Change Review Board, comprised of key supply chain leaders, when needed to seek approval for key recommended changes to the configuration. Also document the change, expected benefits and decision.
• Provide key configuration decision support to DDP implementation project team for various business units in FBIN. Lead buffer calculations, forward plan validation and master data validation for new implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, IT or other related field is required. (Master's Degree is preferred) 
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in roles of increasing responsibility, including continuous improvement experience. Supply Chain Planning experience required.
• Experience utilizing an ERP system (SAP or Oracle preferred) is required. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with natural curiosity to investigate and validate data.
• Use functional expertise and experience to proficiently function in highly varied and complex situations that are non-routine in nature.
• Advanced MS Excel skills. 
• Able to travel domestically and internationally up to 10-15%.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience utilizing Orchestr8 (O8), DDMRP or other advanced planning software preferred.
• Previous experience in inventory modeling, master data management, supply chain systems, DDMRP buffer management, Lean/pull replenishment planning.
• SQL and database skills preferred.
• Supply Chain expertise gained through training, certification, and/or industry associations (e.g.