Job Description
Supply Chain Analyst - Dublin or Letterkenny / Hybrid
We are seeking a driven leader to fill the role of Supply Chain Analyst in Ireland. This position is part of an exciting new business, serving patients with varying disease states, pharma manufacturers, and providers by distributing critical drugs in a timely, high-quality manner.
Deliver Strategic Value
The Supply Chain Analyst will create and manage diverse strategic supplier partnerships that drive enterprise value with innovation, best cost, and competitive advantages that benefit customers, pharma manufacturers, and patients.
Main Responsibilities:
- Design and implement a network fulfillment strategy that balances purchasing constraints with customer order fulfillment.
- Evaluate and generate purchase orders daily to our suppliers to assure service levels are maintained.
- Establish inventory parameters for items being purchased to assure service levels are maintained and balanced with inventory turnover metrics.
- Manage demand forecasts at the item-distribution center level to assure they are accurately representing future sales.
- Plan, manage, and track projects to assure customer fill rates are maintained throughout.
- Build, optimize, and/or automate process/analytics solutions in support of the Procurement org.
- Develop and execute strategic plans by leveraging market intelligence, industry knowledge, and cross-functional collaboration to drive the future procurement needs of the business.
- Provide leadership and guidance for data and analytics programs supporting procurement and collaborate cross-functionally to provide data and analytics support.
- Communicate complex information so that it is easy to understand and influences others to take action based on the useful information provided.
- Implement and maintain decision support or master data management solutions.
- Identify and manage data quality in alignment with the needs of the business and/or industry.
- Actively enable and empower analytics and operations professionals across the procurement organization through leadership ability and sharing of best practices.
- Take responsibility for building data and technology-based solutions for the Procurement team.
- Represent Procurement in enterprise and segment data initiatives/strategies.
- Manage administrative processes timely to assure they support the activities above.
- Responsible for managing, auditing, and training for an assigned process that spans numerous Analysts.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in related field (e.g., supply chain management, logistics, business administration).
- Previous experience in distribution, inventory & procurement management.
- Exposure to advanced analytics, building forecasting models, KPI's and dashboards for supply chain.
- Subject-matter expertise in self-service analytics tools, data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau).
- Knowledge of inventory policies, practices, and systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in inventory and/or procurement management.
- Experience in developing advanced Excel models and/or Power BI.
- SAP experience a plus.
- Experience communicating effectively and interacting with personnel at all levels of technical ability and expertise.
- Solid collaboration skills and is a team player.
- Business understanding to determine when issues should be escalated.
- Experience solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law.