Senior BI Analyst/Developer, Supply Chain Analytics COE

Suntory Global Spirits is a world leader in premium spirits with beloved iconic brands, rooted in more than 200 years of heritage and craftsmanship. Our values are deep-rooted, and we aspire to live our purpose to ‘Inspire the Brilliance of Life’ in everything we do. Our ambition is to become the World’s Most Admired Premium Spirits Company. We want to be Most Admired not only for our incredible brands, but also for the brilliant experiences we foster, the ways in which we bring people together, the impactful marketing and innovation we deliver, and for the positive impact we have on the world around us. When you’re on our team, you can build a career of personal and professional growth across functions, business units and geographies. At Suntory Global Spirits, our employees work together to Unleash Their Spirit and realize their full potential each and every day.

Senior BI Analyst/Developer, Supply Chain Analytics COE  

The following position is open in Illinois, United States.

What makes this a great opportunity?

As a world leader in premium spirits, Suntory Global Spirits inspires human connections. Consumers from all corners of the globe call for the company's brands, including the iconic Jim Beam and Maker's Mark Bourbon brands and Suntory Whisky Kakubin, as well as world renowned premium brands including Knob Creek, Basil Hayden's and Legent Bourbon; Yamazaki, Hakushu, Hibiki and Toki Japanese Whisky; Teacher's, Laphroaig and Bowmore Scotch Whisky; Canadian Club Whisky; Hornitos and Sauza Tequila; EFFEN, Haku and Pinnacle Vodka; and Sipsmith and Roku Gin. 

The Role
Suntory Global Spirits has committed to implementing standard global process leveraging industry best practices across our Supply Chain to deliver operational excellence. This will require a Supply Chain transformation program to evolve our global way-of-working across Supply Chain Planning & Fulfilment supported by a best in class Analytics capability. The Supply Chain Planning & Fulfilment Center of Excellence (CoE) is essential to the development and implementation of this business transformation program. 

The Senior BI Analyst/Developer leads the creation of sophisticated data models and comprehensive reports. This role is pivotal in driving the strategic use of data across the organization, supporting decision-making, and mentoring junior analysts.

This position is primarily accountable for the development of advanced data models and reports, development of comprehensive dashboards and delivery of analytics projects within Supply Chain Planning and Fulfilment. Partnering with the CoE and IT, this role is pivotal in embedding best practices and driving innovation in our analytics capabilities.  You will join workshops to understand use cases and support design discussions to translate requirements into a robust user experience ensuring data standards and best practices are followed. You will lead development of sustainable models, developed around source of truth datasets and best in class visualizations that impress users and make insight generation simple. You will ensure that data governance and standards are a key priority by developing in line with internal process and best practice and flushing out opportunities to improve process and data quality. You will support innovation and our vision to become a best in class analytics capability by identifying opportunities in our modelling and report building to build on the solid foundation already set.  

Role Responsibilities

This position will report to the Director - Supply Chain Analytics COE
Key Responsibilities Include the Following
Analytics Project Delivery:
•    Lead the development of advanced data models and reports in line with technical implementation standards and best practice. 
•    Own on-time delivery of assigned deliverables and escalate issues which prevent progress.
•    Partner cross functionally and contribute to design workshops to ensure solutions address business needs.
•    Develop mock ups to support the discovery/requirements process, drive alignment on the target solution, clear deliverables and level of effort.
•    Highlight technical constraints to drive conversations around trade-offs and prioritization.
•    Highlight changes in requirements, to drive priority decisions and maintain alignment across the project stakeholders. 
•    Working with key stakeholders to ensure that solutions being developed are fit for purpose and sustainable
Data Quality and Governance:
•    Own the integrity and quality of your developments ensuring they are documented to remove risk and dependencies.
•    Adhere to data standards, naming conventions, and data c