Manufacturing Domain Business Analyst

Required Qualifications –
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required
• Any relevant certification will be an added advantage – Six Sigma, APICS, SCOR, PMP etc.
• Implementation / Working Knowledge of SCM packages such as SAP Ariba, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, Oracle etc preferred
• At least 5+ years of experience with Information Technology.
Preferred Qualifications–
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience as a domain / business consultant or management consultant or an industry practitioner in Automotive sector, preferably with hands-on experience in supply chain and order management
• Demonstrates strong proficiency across the Auto Industry value chain and related best practices. Possess expertise in one or’ more Functional areas like Sourcing, Procurement, Planning, Production, Sales & Aftersales, Logistics, Dealer Management etc.
• Experienced in Leading and Managing Agile projects. Experience in driving meetings/workshops with senior client executives, business leads & cross functional stakeholders and articulate project documents lucidly using workshop tools like Confluence, Jira, Visio.
• Conversant with more visual, more design-thinking based, and more agile lightweight approaches such as customer personas, customer journeys, service blueprints, story maps, etc.
• Ability to build and evaluate business cases for operational improvements and understand how technology can be leveraged to accelerate operational improvements.
• Understands the larger, end to end business process that solutions fit into.
• Provide research assistance and clarity of business demand specifications. Bridge gap between business and IT ensuring common understanding and IT/Business alignment. Coordinate the business subject matter experts’ involvement in all aspects of the project.
• Design Business Use cases, Lead Functional Architecture, Re-engineer process models and Integrate disparate services for end-to-end solution delivery
• Guide technical team members to realize customer’s vision as articulated in the project deliverables across Planning & Scheduling, Vehicle Logistics, Supplier Visibility, and Dynamic Order Management among others
• Document as-is & to-be business processes, assessing the business models, systems, and integration with technology
• Prepare user stories, prepare acceptance criteria for user stories, and manage product backlog, with prioritization
• Leverage industry frameworks like APQC, SCOR etc. for potential supply chain transformation programs
• Working experience in Agile methodologies & tools (e.g., JIRA), Understanding and exposure to Software dev. lifecycle