Job Description

Your new company
We are currently working with a large, highly reputable Healthcare organisation - supporting them with the recruitment of a Business Analyst for a contract role.
This is a role that encompasses a lot of supply chain work, with a lot of collaboration with the wider supply chain team. It involves demand planning and working with advanced planning systems so experience in this area is required.
The contract on offer is for 12 months (with potential extensions) - working on a hybrid basis, 2-3 days per week on site in Cheshire

Your new role

• Support Design and Deployment of Streamlined Ways of Working across Demand and Supply Planning
• Collaborate with Supply & Demand Planning along with Digital teams to support or lead work packages to deliver a streamlined way of working.
• Contribute to design of work packages towards the delivery of a streamlined way of working.
• Execute the work package plan in partnership with the business.
• Create method to ensure adoption of this streamlined approach when handed over to BAU.
• Drive Process Efficiency, Automation and Decision Making, leveraging OMP.
• Analyse data and planning processes to identify inefficiencies or opportunities to reduce manual work through planning automation and data-driven decision support tools, capitalizing on the OMP investment.
• Engage stakeholders to facilitate and support change readiness and adoption.
• Assist in developing communication materials, dashboards, and reports that provide visibility to progress and impact.
• Ensure that change proposals are aligned with broader business goals and strategic ambition.
• Identify potential issues early, whether operational, financial, or technical.
• Implement mitigation strategies proactively.

What you'll need to succeed

• Strong Business Analyst experience in supply chain
• Experience in global supply chain, preferably in planning, transformation, or systems implementation roles. Experience in Streamline / simplification progammmes / projects experience advantageous
• Working knowledge of advanced planning systems (OMP or similar), particularly adoption of the system.
• Exposure to digital tools, automation, or supply chain segmentation concepts.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across functions and geographies.
• Strong Stakeholder communication skills at all levels
• Zero defect mindset, analytical, data-driven; able to identify insights and translate them into actions to close gaps.

What you need to do now

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