Job Description
The Role
The Strategic Business Analyst plays a critical role in enabling datadriven decisionmaking across GPSC by identifying analyzing and translating complex supply chain risks into actionable business insights. This role partners closely with Purchasing Creativity Teams and enterprise risk functions to assess emerging risks develop mitigation strategies and support leadership through clear analysis structured frameworks and strategic recommendations. The position blends analytical rigor strategic thinking and crossfunctional collaboration to strengthen endtoend supply chain resiliency.
What Youll Do
Strategic Analysis & Business Insight
- Analyze multiple internal and external risk signals to identify prioritize and communicate businesscritical supply chain risks and opportunities.
- Consolidate enterprise risk information into clear decisionready insights that support leadership planning tradeoff discussions and strategic direction setting.
- Develop structured business analyses scenario assessments and executivelevel narratives that connect risk exposure to operational financial and strategic impact.
Risk Frameworks & Decision Support
- Support the design development and implementation of enterprise risk and resiliency tools that enable consistent analysis and reporting across GPSC.
- Establish and manage a repeatable systemized approach for tracking risk indicators signposts and mitigation effectiveness across Purchasing and Creativity Teams.
- Document risks assumptions mitigation plans and changes to ensure traceability governance and transparency.
Functional Strategy & Alignment
- Coordinate with Creativity Teams SMTs and enterprise risk partners to translate identified risks into aligned mitigation strategies and business recommendations.
- Partner with GPSC Enterprise Risk & Resiliency Management to ensure material risks are escalated appropriately and monitored at the enterprise level.
- Support thirdparty resiliency engagements by synthesizing external insights and integrating them into internal strategic analyses.
Scenario Planning & Organizational Preparedness
- Design and facilitate scenario planning and tabletop exercises to test organizational readiness and inform leadership response strategies.
- Develop playbooks and strategic response frameworks for highimpact risk scenarios (e.g. geopolitical disruptions pandemics regulatory changes).
Communication Reporting & Enablement
- Plan organize and deliver clear concise and visually compelling reports and presentations for leadership teams and stakeholders.
- Translate complex analytical findings into practical guidance that enables both strategic decisionmaking and tactical execution.
- Develop processes documentation and training materials to strengthen analytical maturity and crossfunctional integration across the supply chain.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Engineering Risk Management or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in supply chain purchasing logistics value chain engineering risk management or related analytical roles.
- Experience developing and delivering formal presentations reports and/or training materials.
- Strong ability to communicate complex analysis clearlyfrom strategic intent to tactical implicationsacross leadership forums team settings and oneonone discussions.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking analytical problemsolving and ability to operate with autonomy in ambiguous environments.
- Proven project management skills including prioritization deadline management and crossfunctional coordination.
- Strong analytical strategic planning and synthesis capabilities.
- Ability to influence without authority and facilitate alignment across diverse stakeholders.
- Drive for results and ability to lead change in complex evolving environments.
- Curiosity creativity and willingness to challenge the status quo to improve processes and outcomes.
- Proficiency with MS Office tools (Excel PowerPoint Word) Power BI Teams and SharePoint.
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This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week or other frequency dictated by their manager.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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