Business & Supply Chain Analyst

As part of the Sourcing Center of Excellence team, the Business & Supply Chain Analyst will provide Procurement & Sourcing Teams with analytical support for the sourcing/purchasing efforts,  ad hoc projects, ongoing strategies, and leadership reporting.

 

Main responsibilities for this role will be to support the Marine and Technical, Port Operations, and Logistics procurement operations & strategic sourcing teams for our North American brands. However, this position may  also support other  key spend areas and categories, including but not limited to: Destination Development, Shore Excursions, IT, Food & Beverage, Hotel, Marketing, Air Travel, Retail, and ESG. 

This position will provide a great opportunity to learn about the operations across our brands as well as in a wide variety of spend categories and sourcing markets.

This role is responsible for working on a daily basis with key stakeholders across our Brands to provide analytical support for sourcing, procurement and supply chain initiatives, conducting in depth analysis and making recommendations that drive business improvements. Positive relationship building with the ability to be influential without direct authority, resilience to ambiguity and an ability to work in a fast paced quickly changing environment are required.

This role will typically be challenged with non-harmonized data from various systems, data analysis, critical thinking, problem-solving and document preparation. The position will interact with all levels of the organization including executive leadership and will directly contribute to critical business decisions leading to maximize revenue opportunities and business change. 

The position will be responsible for the following areas:

• Project-level Analytical Support
• Support Procurement Operations & Sourcing Efforts
• Financial Tracking and Reporting
• Systems, Data management, and Dashboard Development

Essential Functions:

Analytics:

• Work closely with the North America & Australia l Procurement Operations and Sourcing  teams (responsible for each spend category) to identify business opportunities, define/ clarify a problem statement, and develop an analysis plan
• Gather, organize, reconcile, clean-up large data sets from various systems and conduct relevant analyses and recommendations
• Identify insights, synthesize results, and prepare management presentations
  • Prepare presentations summarizing data analysis and potential opportunities
  • Show financial impact as well as implications for each involved brand
  • Presentations should be clean, easy to follow, and ready to use at executive level (CFO, CPO)
• Gather and standardize data from various systems to create dashboards & reports across brands. Dashboards should have key performance indicators or analytics matrix, be interactive so end user can select specific categories and time periods, crisp details, and comprehensible. 
• Ability to understand end to end process and create process maps to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities across the supply chain.
• Support in master data maintenance and governance activities 
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders from our Brands to gather business needs and provide reporting solutions while keeping them updated of progress
• Sample analyses include (not exhaustive): cost-benefit analyses, buy vs. lease, ship vs. buy-local, “what if” analysis, custom spend reports
• Conduct market research and ability to synthetize and present findings

Support Sourcing & Supply Chain Effects:

• Support Category Leads across multiple spend areas to successfully implement sourcing efforts
• Support throughout the 7-Step Sourcing Process, from data analysis, market research, RFP, to vendor negotiations and implementation
• Analyze and recommend improvements in the procurement operations & strategic sourcing teams aiming to achieve the best total landed cost of goods and services 
• Partner with other business teams to develop innovative, cost-effective solutions within a global supply chain network

Financial Tracking and Reporting

• Work with Category leads, PMO, and Finance teams to make sure savings are accurately measured and validated
• Monitor savings, identify risks, and escalate when appropriate
• Report on value-add initiatives

Systems and Data management:

• Work with systems team to continuously improve systems by (e.g., improved functionality and fixing of bugs/issues)
• Ensure procurement data is available, reliable, and comparable across all Brands, e.g.,:
  • Item Taxonomy & Hierarchy
  • Item Descri