Supply Chain Solutions Analyst - Planning Analytics

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Role overview

The Supply Chain Solution Lead is a role with a technical focus, responsible for leading the design, development, deployment, and continuous improvement of digital supply chain solutions that enable data-driven decision-making, operational visibility, and process standardization across the global supply chain network. This role combines strong supply chain process knowledge with analytics, systems, and solution management capabilities, with a primary focus on Tableau-based reporting and dashboarding, while also supporting and managing other key supply chain applications such as GSC Suite, Hotspot, and additional digital tools.

This role partners closely with global, regional, site, IT, and business stakeholders to translate supply chain needs into scalable digital solutions, ensure application reliability, support adoption, and drive continuous improvement. The role requires the ability to connect business processes, data, system functionality, and user experience to deliver practical solutions that improve planning execution, inventory visibility, operational performance, and management decision-making.

What you'll do

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and ongoing enhancement of supply chain digital solutions, with a primary focus on Tableau dashboards and analytics, while supporting additional applications.

• Partner with global, regional, site, planning, manufacturing, fulfilment, logistics, finance, and IT stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into clear, scalable, and actionable solution designs.

• Own and manage the lifecycle of supply chain reporting and analytics solutions, including requirements gathering, data validation, user testing, deployment readiness, release coordination, and post-go-live support

• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, data views, and performance management tools that enable improved visibility into key supply chain processes such as demand and supply planning, deployment, inventory management, fulfilment, backorders, and operational execution.

• Ensure that Tableau and other supply chain application outputs are accurate, reliable, user-friendly, and aligned with standardized business processes, data definitions, and global reporting principles.

• Manage application support activities for key supply chain tools, including issue triage, root cause analysis, enhancement prioritization, user access coordination, release testing, documentation, and communication with impacted stakeholders.

• Identify opportunities to improve supply chain processes through better data visibility, automation, analytics, system functionality, and standardized ways of working.

• Collaborate with IT and technical teams to support data integration, dashboard performance, application stability, release management, and compliance with enterprise system standards.

• Lead user engagement, training, and adoption activities to ensure that supply chain solutions are effectively embedded into day-to-day decision-making and operational routines.

• Act as a bridge between business and technical teams, translating complex supply chain needs into practical solution requirements and translating technical outputs into meaningful business insights.

• Support governance of supply chain digital tools by maintaining documentation, business rules, data definitions, process flows, enhancement backlogs, and issue logs.

• Promote continuous improvement and digital maturity across the supply chain organization by identifying best practices, improving reporting consistency, and enabling scalable analytics capabilities.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Analytics, Engineering, Operations, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field.

• Experience with supply chain applications such as Kinaxis/RapidResponse, ERP reporting environments, or similar platforms is preferred.

• APICS, Lean Six Sigma, Tableau, Power BI, Agile certification preferred.

• 5+ years of professional experience in supply chain, analytics, business systems, planning, operations, or a related functional area.

• Understanding of supply chain processes, including demand planning, supply planning, deployment, manufacturing, logistics, inventory management, and fulfillment.

• Demonstrated experience developing, managing, or supporting supply chain reporting, analytics, dashboards, or business applications.

• Tableau Creator License is required; experience with additional analytics or reporting tools such as Power BI, SQL, Power Query, Python, or similar tools is preferred.

• Experience supporting or managing business applications, including issue resolution, user support, release coordination, enhancement prioritization, testing, and documentation.

• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable solution designs, user stories, reporting specifications, and dashboard requirements.

• Ability to work effectively with both business and technical stakeholders, including IT teams, global process owners, regional teams, and site users.

Reasonable Accommodation

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