Senior Data Analyst Job Description
The Senior Data Analyst will play a key role in the Technology Solutions and Analytics team at Cardinal Health. Our mission is to improve our pharmaceutical supply chain's performance, enabling us to better serve our pharmacy customers and allow them to focus on their patients.
The Senior Data Analyst will work closely with cross-functional teams to analyze data, develop recommendations, and build products that support business decision-making in areas such as:
* Inventory management: stocking strategies and replenishment policies
* Sales and operations planning (resource management in response to demand changes)
* Metrics/Performance reporting
* Network design and capacity planning
Responsibilities include:
* Applying knowledge of business processes, systems, data, and analytical tools to explore and identify root causes of problems
* System monitoring to ensure processes are executing as expected and correcting issues to prevent purchase orders and receiving from being impacted by errors
* Forecasting future demand, building optimization and simulation models, and communicating actionable insights
* Partnering with cross-functional project teams to ideate, develop, and recommend solutions
* Listening to clients and asking questions to clearly define business problems
* Performing exploratory analysis to determine root causes of problems and confirming or disproving hypotheses
* Developing predictive models to forecast future volumes that will drive capacity/resource needs
* Developing customer and product segmentation models and designing our supply chain to support differentiated services
* Recommending solutions and summarizing the financial and operational impact of the recommendation, including pros and cons of alternatives considered
* Working with Data Engineers to create data models for analyses and helping to create standard reporting of metrics
Qualifications include:
* Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
* 5+ years of relevant experience in Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or Statistics
* Experience with data analysis tools such as R, Python, SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, Looker
* Demonstrated ability to apply Data Analytics techniques to supply chain management problems
* Knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) and working with databases
* Proven ability to work as part of a team as the key analytical resource
* Excellent communication skills with an ability to explain quantitative analysis in simple business terms
Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply. Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background.