Senior Continuous Improvement Analyst

The Sr Analyst on the CI team will serve as a process and business liaison to the fulfillment teams. Their primary objective will be to identify performance opportunities across sites, quantify the business opportunity and leverage their plant relationships to deliver recommendations to the Home Chef Operations leadership team. As a leading strategist on the National CI team, this role is a plant facing, change driver that is constantly assessing plant performance and distance from target, assessing best practices, and leveraging the necessary plant process expertise to deliver change recommendations to the plant fulfillment network.

Detailed Responsibilities

Strategic Project Work:

• Execute on strategic initiatives requiring advanced data and analytical support delivering projects that deliver results against key performance metrics.
• Continuously optimize production plans and planning tools to support plant function, and make routine plant knowledge automated for ease of execution.
• Partner closing with plant teams to establish process expertise and create trusted relationships to drive change.

Data Analysis & Reporting:

• Develop models and methodologies to monitor success of multiple facets of the business (facility capacity, machinery usage, labor, production, etc.)
• Find innovative ways to make data actionable for our production teams - build processes to better collect, store, and visualize operational data in a meaningful and impactful way
• Enable data-driven decision making by reporting on core KPIs and performing ad-hoc analyses

Setting strategic priorities:

• Leverage fulfillment KPIs & reporting to identify and quantify opportunities for process improvement
• Help team to structure project work and deliver clear, data-driven recommendations
• Develop project recommendations through close work with the plant fulfillment leaders to pair opportunity with plant need\

Collaboration with operations technology team:

• Develop V1.0 of tools and reporting to support efficiency and quality improvements at the plants
• Partner with operations technology team as business lead in the development of technology-driven applications to implement in the plants

This position requires at least 25% travel. 

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• 3+ years of experience in supply chain or operations analytics
• Background in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math preferred 
• Excellent analytical skills; strong capabilities in Excel, Google Sheets and Google Scripts. 
• 3+ years of experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS & common coding languages
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Strong prioritization and project management skills 
• Excellent communication skills, with experience creating buy in with a range of stakeholders such as hourly employees, customers, suppliers, and executives 
• Proactive in identifying problems and finding innovative solutions
• Ability to understand the big picture as well as exceptional attention to detail 
• Skilled at dealing with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced environment 
• Experience spearheading execution on large-scale, high-impact projects 
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Completion of a four-year degree program in a related field (please describe): Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Preferred

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