Sr. Strategy & Planning Analyst

LyondellBasell.

Come Join An Inclusive Team:

The purpose of this role is two-fold. (1) This position aligns commercial organizations globally to deliver trusted “commercial” Digital Intelligence for execution of business strategy, aimed to maximize the profitability of the O&P business segment. Responsible for creating a step change in aptitude, speed, and accuracy of Business Intelligence, Decisions Processes, Reporting and Execution by: (a) supporting the existing business self-service data analytics culture, (b) coordinating IT architecture and software applications for seamless data access, (c) creating user-friendly data applications and processes to solve business problems for the commercial organization. (2) In this position, you will also be responsible for providing business unit and senior management with the relevant analysis necessary to understand and improve performance. You will serve as a business unit focal point for preparing the long range plan, defining and evaluating strategic opportunities and risks, and tracking performance improvement progress.  You will conduct evaluations and make recommendations that support Business unit strategy, marketing, commercial, and capital decisions.
 

A Day In The Life:

Regional Analyst with Global Responsibilities – Identifies and evaluates the commercial needs for business data analytics and create standardized solutions aligned across all regions globally. Supports in driving a culture towards new analytical tools, applications, automation, mobility, and architecture to advance data analytic capabilities of the O&P commercial organization. Partner with IT – Establish key working relationships with the LYB IT organization to ensure the O&P commercial organization’s data analytics landscape of projects, initiatives, and future considerations are well known, identified, and resourced. 

 

Technology Implementation:

• Power BI and DAX Coding – Develop sophisticated Power BI dashboards with advanced DAX coding to deliver commercial digital intelligence to support the execution of O&P Business Strategy.
• Microsoft Azure & Applications– Leverage full offering of Microsoft platforms to advance data processing, promote application utilization, and visualizations thru Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, etc to advance commercial data analytics and decision making. 
• Data Source Management – Collective organizational management of O&P commercial data sources. Pursue adding seamless access to new data sources to increase data integration and drive cross data-source analysis; creating new business insights and visualizations. 
• Software/Infrastructure – Manage and drive software & infrastructure requirements for the organization by understanding the business needs, software development requirements, and working with IT & Digital Transformation team to enhance processing & analytical capabilities related to: visualization applications, advanced analytics capabilities, commercial data storage, metadata management, etc.  
• Change Management – Follow change management processes when implementing new applications with user base to ensure organizational understanding and acceptance of change and standardization.
• Drive Digitalization Culture – supports a digitalization culture within the global O&P commercial organization by demonstrating, inspiring, marketing, training, and enabling a business self-service data analytics culture.  
• Training & Documentation – Provide training to the organization. Maintain documentation and data governance and management for the global commercial O&P organization. 
• Industry Best Practices – evaluate new tools and techniques that could potentially bring value to the O&P commercial organization’s processes & analytical capabilities.
• Strategic Planning - You will provide O&P Americas senior business management with strategic, market, industry, economic and technology analyses necessary to understand and improve business performance. Other activities include evaluating and preparing recommendations and presentations related to commercial opportunities, market/product/customer/plant profitability, strategic marketing and sourcing decisions, capital projects, revenue growth/cost reduction, and industry data compilation/interpretation/analysis.  The position requires interaction with various functional groups throughout the organization including Business Finance, Strategic Planning & Transactions, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, NetZero, and with external consultants.

You Bring This Value:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required in a quantitative field (such as: Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, MIS). Master’s degree or Business emphasis preferred.

Work Experience & Qualifications: