Integrated Business Planning Analyst

About This Role

This role involves driving strategic planning excellence and continuous improvement for Ashley Furniture, focusing on enhancing business planning processes and delivering customer-centric supply chain solutions. The Analyst will leverage data and insights to support company-wide decision-making and foster collaboration across various internal and external teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to long-term and short-term business planning objectives to improve quality, reduce costs, and do more business.
• Actively participate in IBP meetings to enhance processes, train team members, and advance supporting technical tools.
• Develop planning improvement processes for defined product families to exceed company KPIs.
• Apply professional judgment and managerial principles to perform advanced troubleshooting and analysis.
• Embrace collaborative Kaizen behaviors to continuously improve Ashley's service delivery.
• Generate datasets to identify outliers and trend conditions, determining improvement recommendations with business partners.
• Serve as subject matter expert (SME) for analytical queries, analysis, and process improvement projects.
• Communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers to negotiate and make recommendations.
• Fulfill customer demands while ensuring reasonable inventory level plans.
• Update, oversee, and follow up on KPIs for critical business discussions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Intelligence, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Entry-level to early career experience
• Continuous Improvement Mindset (Kaizen methodologies)
• Advanced troubleshooting and analytical capabilities
• Customer-centric approach
• Strong data analysis skills
• Proficiency with business intelligence tools and supply chain systems
• Ability to make sound data-driven recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively across diverse teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Intelligence, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Entry-level to early career professionals welcome

Skills

* Required skills

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