Business Analyst

Project Title:  Business Analyst
Project Location: Beaverton, OR 97005 
Project Duration: 11 Months Contract with possible extension 

Project Description:
Analyzes complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers.
Constructs forecasts, recommendations and strategic/tactical plans based on business data and market knowledge.
Creates reports for management/leadership on business performance and develops metrics to measure various characteristics of the business.
Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions.
Applies in-depth understanding of advanced mathematical concepts, operations and/or economics to solve new and complex problems and develop innovative strategies.

Responsibilities:
Lead to the accomplishment of key goals across consumer and commercial analytics functions. Work with key stakeholders to understand requirements, develop sustainable data solutions, and provide insights and recommendations.
Document and communicate systems and analytics changes to the business, translating complex functionality into business relevant language.
Validate key performance indicators and build queries to quantitatively measure business performance.
Communicate with cross-functional teams to understand the business cause of data anomalies and outliers.
Develop data governance standards from data ingestion to product dictionaries and documentation.
Develop SQL queries and data visualizations to fulfill ad-hoc analysis requests and ongoing reporting needs leveraging standard query syntax.
Organize and transform information into comprehensible structures. Use data to predict trends and perform statistical analysis.
Use data mining to extract information from data sets and identify correlations and patterns.
Monitor data quality and remove corrupt data.
Evaluate and utilize new technologies, tools, and frameworks centered around high-volume data processing.
Improve existing processes through automation and efficient workflows.
Build and deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.
Work independently and take initiative to identify, explore and solve problems.
Design and build innovative data and analytics solutions to support key decisions
Support standard methodologies in reporting and analysis, such as, data integrity, unit testing, data quality control, system integration testing, modeling, validation, and documentation.
Independently support end-to-end analysis to advise product strategy, data architecture and reporting decisions.

Education:
Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 2-4 years directly relevant work experience
Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 1 yr; Masters + 0-3 yrs; Associates degree + 1-3 yrs; High School + 3-5 yrs.

Notes:
This team is working on a special project with Supply chain and technology partners.
This role will be managing the business side of the project through data analysis and business knowledge of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations.
They need someone who can drive a project on their own with some input from cross function partners.

Must Have:
3+ YEO in project management within the business side of Procurement, Supply chain, or Materials and Operations.
Strong excel - VLook ups, data visualization and dashboards
Data aggregation - pulling data from different sources

Nice to Have:
Experience with Tableau, SQL, Anlteryx
Process Mapping, process evolution from start to end
Process changes related to how to allocate volume to Suppliers