McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We've been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns.
Performs the Oracle Business Analyst role, interacting with the business to capture the project requirements, unit testing, following up with business approvals and implementation of solutions to production and postproduction support. Ensure quality solutions are created, business reengineering processes are documented, changes in business processes are implemented and quality field level training is completed.
From a support perspective, it is expected research will be completed on reported or assigned incidents with interim and permanent solutions implemented or recommended as systems change. Additionally, a Senior Business Analyst should have vision to see major issues and or steps needing to be implemented which could have negative consequences in the organization. They should have a mixture of technical and functional skills which allow them to easily transition between user groups.
Pay and Benefits:
The pay range for this remote position is $110,000 to $130,000, based on qualifications and experience. This role is also eligible to participate in the annual incentive plan with a target incentive of 15% of your base annual salary. Full-time employees are offered benefits including health/RX, dental and vision insurance; flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA); short and long-term disability coverage, supplemental life insurance; 401(k); paid time off and holiday pay for Company designated holidays.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS / PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Owns the relationship between the business units and MBIS teams while carrying a substantial workload of approximately 10-25 projects.
- Produces adhoc reports based on business users' requests and serve as an information source for members of the project team.
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Highlights and track mission critical issues and push for closure.
- Understands the industry and solutions the Company has to offer. Be able to see the big picture on projects and be able to discuss in depth all steps needed to take requirements from gathering to implementation and support.
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Elicits business requirements and subsequent creation of a business requirements document. Ensure changes, updates and exceptions are documented throughout the project life cycle.
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Develops and maintain workflows, swim lanes, mock screens or screens and other visual aids to demonstrate how the solution should be created and effectively communicate to members of a project team.
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Collaborates with development and subject matter experts to establish the vision of a project and analyze the tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
- Creates Microsoft project plans along with creation of tasks and assign tasks to members of the project team.
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Prepares cost benefit analysis and return on investment research to ensure projects submitted are providing proper return to the Company. SOP98-1 identification of projects.
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Obtain approval of the business requirements document from the business unit within the project timeline.
- Provides weekly status reports to ensure everyone included in the project has an understanding of major milestones, timelines, and whether assigned projects are on track to meet expected delivery dates.
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Develops test cases or other system testing processes to ensure solutions meet quality standards and the agreed upon business requirements.
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Approves and in some cases execute test cases created by Quality Assurance, validate the tests appropriately and evaluate the requirements.
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Close process related incidents, reported to the Help Desk, that are assigned based on business issues.
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Develops training material as well as maintenance of existing materials so that business users understand the systems and solutions that are in place.
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Manages projects as needed or defined by the business.
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Facilitates meetings as needed.
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Establishes project priorities by working with the business owners on a weekly basis.
MINIMUM SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
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Have Project Management certification or working to accomplish certification.
- Have Bachelors degree or equivalent industry experience in retail, procurement, warehouse operations, transportation, or financial systems. Master's degree preferred.
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Have 8+ years of Oracle SCM experience
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Possess strong analysis, organizational, oral and written communication skills.
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Be detail oriented and able to work on many different assignments at one time with demonstrated follow through and commitment to customer service.
- Be able to work in stressful situations where time demands are high and have the ability to discern priorities.
- Be an effective planner, organizer, trouble shooter, and self-starter.
- Be able to work effectively without a lot of supervision or direction.
- Have strong business acumen.
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Have ability to travel to divisions to support in upgrades, new implementations, creation or opening of new divisions.
- Ability to provide after-hours support as needed based on needs of the business.
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Have good functional SCM experience in procurement, inventory and planning
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
