American Red CrossRemote
Business Planning Analyst II, Supply Management
United States of America
Full Time
2 days ago
$66,000 - $73,000 USD
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Key skills
Business Process EngineeringProcess MappingValue Stream MappingData AnalyticsData VisualizationMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft SharePointPower BISmartsheetMicrosoft ProjectSupply ManagementProject ManagementAnalyticsBICommunicationCollaboration
About this role
The American Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network, and they are seeking a Business Planning Analyst II to support their Supply Management team. This role involves leading business process engineering efforts to enhance operational efficiency and provide data-driven insights for program execution.
Responsibilities:
- Lead business process engineering initiatives, redesigning workflows to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Develop and maintain detailed process maps (current and future state) to document workflows and identify improvement opportunities
- Conduct value stream mapping to evaluate end-to-end processes, eliminate waste, and improve cycle times
- Analyze processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for standardization
- Create data analytics and visualization tools to validate improvements and quantify business impact
- Provide program planning and decision support through data analysis, reporting, and insight generation
- Analyze financial and supply management data including budgets, cost drivers, supplier performance, and operational metrics
- Apply project management principles to manage multiple priorities and initiatives
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 3 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required
- Ability to develop project plans
- Demonstrated proficiency in collaboration, facilitation, planning, and problem-solving
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint)
- Ability to work on a team
- May travel and participate in meetings and conferences throughout the Red Cross system up to 10% of the time
- Experience working in supply management or education related to supply management
- Business process engineering and optimization skills
- Process mapping and value stream mapping experience
- Strong Data analytics and visualization (e.g., Power BI/Smartsheet and MS Project) experience
- Continuous improvement methodologies. (Lean/Six Sigma preferred)
- Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
- Strong Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills