Senior Analyst, Global Transportation (open to remote)

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Summary:

The Senior Analyst, Global Transportation is responsible for managing projects, establishing global standard work, translating & prioritizing requirements, supporting transportation value improvement projects, reporting metrics & identifying trends. This role will work closely with global service providers and regional functional stakeholders to simplify transportation processes.  We encourage an independent thinker with diversity of thought to support a culture of agility and collaboration. Data collection, reporting, analysis, and project management are key to success in this role.

Essential duties and responsibilities: 

• Drive global standardization of logistics processes

• Execute value improvement projects against ~$750M of freight under management

• Manage all aspects of multiple medium sized and/or complex projects from initiation through closure

• Develop, sell, and implement comprehensive project plans, encompassing project team structure and resource assignment, implementation, testing and training plans, creation of a control plan identifying both business process metrics and ensuring successful transition to operations teams

• Own all project risk; including time, budget, and scope, and the associated plans to contain and/or mitigate risk

• Responsible for translating high-level business requirements into detailed functional specifications and managing requests for changes to the specifications

• Assist the business in determining which business requirements can and should be automated and how they are then integrated with other business and technical processes

• Overcome roadblocks to ensure project delivery is made in line with internal and external customers’ requirements

• Develop, coach and lead operations teams, setting measurable goals and objectives to evaluate success

• Maintain functional peer relationships and detailed working knowledge of logistics systems, organization, and business processes

• Drive continuous improvement culture with a pipeline of ideas for service improvements, cost reduction, efficiency and/or optimization

• Expertise in pulling, validating, analyzing, and presenting key data to facilitate decision making

• Present updates to Transportation Leadership Team with clear timing and deliverables

Qualifications:

• 4+ Years of Transportation experience in a matrixed organization

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Strong communication skills (with team, peers, and upper management) and ability to develop rapport with other functional leaders inside Baxter and external partners

• Thinks strategically, innovates, and makes recommendations for improvements consistently

• Analytical experience for solving complex problems with clear fact-based solutions

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Excellent project management, communication, and analytical skills. Ability to document, plan, market & execute projects

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems

• Proven ability to work on cross-functional, multi-cultural teams

• Proven ability to meet deadline in a fast-paced changing environment

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