GIC- Sr Analyst - SC Analytics - Network

RoleData Science

LevelSenior

LocationPowai, India

WorkOn-site

TypeFull-time

Posted67 months ago

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About the role

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success. Job Overview: The role involves building, maintaining, and executing optimization model, model automation workflow & decision support tools to help identify, analyze, and implement opportunities in the areas of End-to-End network design & optimization. This role requires strong analytical ability, problem solving, network modeling, database design & visualizations. This role also requires basic understanding of optimization & how optimization works. The incumbent will collaborate with peers & business leaders to understand the requirements and design the solution in identifying opportunities for manufacturing & distribution network and provides least cost sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution options. The incumbent works on strategic projects, new capability development and enhancement of existing capabilities. Responsibilities: 30% of Time Requirement Gathering & Data Collection
Understand Project charter- Business context, Scope, Outcome & success criteria
Understand decisions to be taken through the model – Sourcing, Inventory targets, Capacity optimization, Network change, service risk analysis, Plant/DC Open/Close, Greenfield location, Customer realignment or supply chain design
Understand data availability & build customized data template to collect data
Performed data cleaning- Outlier, Missing data etc & provide summary & insight 40% Model Building & Scenario Evaluation
Develop different modeling approaches/techniques to solve the business problem at hand and recommends the best approach
Develop story map & wireframing for decision support tool
Build data workflow & Use appropriate tool to build the model – Data guru & Supply chain Guru
Build the baseline and validate it with business /stakeholder
Analyze large set of business data, derive useful insights & communicate the same to project manager and/or client
Build /Evaluate multiple scenarios through the model
Carry output validation 20% of Time Model result analysis & presentation
Build data workflow and design data base to record the model output
Carry out the result analysis and provide business insights to project manager/stakeholders
Build presentation, methodology documents & assumption documents
Communicate effectively with broad audience i.e. client/stakeholders/cross functional teams
Use advanced optimization & simulation tools to build the models & run different sensitivity (what-if) scenarios 10 % of Time
Take small routine decisions and seek supervision when needed
Interact with cross functional teams/stakeholders on regular basis to share opportunity areas and help them to reduce the losses.
Drive innovation in providing solutions to business problems Education Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors Preferred Degree Requirements: Masters Preferred Major Area of Study: Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain Preferred Professional Certifications: CSCMP, APICS Experience Minimum years of related experience required: 2 Preferred years of related experience: 5 Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed: Demonstrated Model building skills in software’s like LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru, Data Guru, Simulation tools, R Demonstrated skills on data management tools & SQL, Tableau Can work independently and take decisions without seeking help from Supervisor Strong analytic ability to translate data into actionable information Experience in dealing with large data sets and tools like MS Excel, SQL, Tableau Ability to think “out of the box” & strong analytical skills Competencies/Behaviors required for job: Deliver outstanding results – Completes tasks, activities and projects in a timely and effective manner. Communicates progress about projects with others to ensure overall alignment. Provides ideas and input to help team achieve greater result. May lead a defined portion of a project. Assumes personal initiative and accountability for results, performance and behaviors. Communication
Ability to negotiate solutions between parties and effectively communicate with various levels and functions throughout the organization. Clearly articulate views in written and verbal discussions. Excellent English skills are a must. Problem Solving / Analytical skills – Ability to collect and analyze data quickly and efficiently. Can identify issues and provide ideas/solutions for resolution. COMPANY OVERVIEW We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

Benefits and perks

•401(k)

•Paid Time Off

•Learning Budget

Required skills

Data analysis

Reporting

Stakeholder management

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