Supply Chain Analytics Manager

Supply Chain Manager - Analytics

Position Summary

- Resourceful and motivated individual for leading the Strategic Analytics team. This team leads the initiative to harness customer data in addressing strategic issues that materially impact our client’s business.

- The primary responsibility for the Senior Manager role is conducting statistical analyses in support of our marketing and strategic initiatives.

- The successful candidate will have strong consultative skills in addition to quantitative ability. As well as also be exposed to the challenges of using statistics in a business setting, such as incomplete data, biased data, large data sets, low signal-to-noise ratios, high variance and multiple objective functions.

- Requires being creative and resourceful and we will utilize traditional statistical methodologies as well as newer techniques from computational statistics and data mining.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop statistical models to support marketing efforts, such as customer segmentation, acquisition and retention

- Develop statistical testing programs to measure and improve on-going performance of marketing campaigns

- Apply appropriate techniques, such as exploratory data analysis, regression, bootstrapping, trees, cluster analysis, survival analysis and so on

- Develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis

- Partner with Marketing and Finance to understand business problems and marketing strategies

- Partner with IT to implement models and tests

- Deep understanding of the inventory / spare parts management

- Past experience with tools in the inventory / spare parts management

- Appreciation of underlying business fundamentals in the supply chain domain as well as Operations Research area

- Deep project management expertise

- Client management skills

- Strong written and oral communication skills

- Team building and people management skills

- Proficiency with MS word, excel and PowerPoint

Supervisory Responsibilities:

- Manage a team of analytics resources to ensure that deliverables are met with quality and in a timely fashion.

- Performance management of the team

- Adhere to client SLA’s

- Past history of leading consulting project engagements in supply chain area is a basic requirement – preferably in a client-facing role and for supply chain modeling projects. A minimum 7 years of experience in supply chain space is desired with at least 4 years of work in inventory management or supply planning areas.

- Hands-on experience with at least one relevant industry tool is important (e.g. i2, Logic Tools, Llamasoft etc.).

Requirements:

- 6-8 years of general business experience, including 3-4 years of quantitative analysis in a business setting, including building statistical models

- MS in Statistics, Data Mining, Econometrics or related fields; MBA helpful, Engineering degree or a Supply Chain Degree or an Industrial Management Degree.

- Should have consulting skills/ project management experience

- Strong ability to extract strategic insights from large data sets

- Desire and ability to collaborate with business partners

- Industry certifications such as APICS CPIM / CSCP/ CFPIM would be a plus.

Technical Skills:

- Must be Proficient in SAS and SQL

- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills

- Systems administration skills a plus

Rush your cv to saurav.k@signaturestaffindia.com

Kumar Saurav
Associate Consultant
Signature Staff Private Limited
saurav.k@signaturestaffindia.com
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