Remote-friendly, full-time direct-hire role in Chicago, IL, with onsite training in Gridley, IL, offering USD 70,000 - 90,000 per year.

Design, maintain, and enhance dashboards, reports, and analytics for the supply chain.
Produce recurring reports for leadership, operations, procurement, finance, and executive reviews.
Detect data gaps, process inconsistencies, and reporting limitations that hinder visibility or decision quality.
Integrate data from procurement, production, inventory, warehousing, logistics, quality, sales, and finance to reveal efficiency opportunities.
Create tools that provide departments with a single, trusted data source.
Identify bottlenecks, process delays, inventory imbalances, and drivers of cost.
Assess inventory metrics such as on-hand quantities, days of supply, safety stock, reorder points, usage trends, and material availability.
Develop dashboards that highlight understocked, overstocked, or demand-misaligned materials.
Deliver data-driven purchasing recommendations to planning and procurement teams.
Monitor supplier performance including on-time delivery, adherence to lead times, price accuracy, and quality documentation.
Aid in the development and maintenance of supplier scorecards.
Analyze purchase price variance, cost trends, and sourcing opportunities.
Use data to identify inefficient workflows, manual processes, and recurring operational issues.
Contribute to standardizing metrics, definitions, data sources, and reporting cadence.
Collaborate on cross-functional projects focused on cost control, inventory improvement, and system reliability.

3 to 5 years of experience in supply chain analytics or related data analytics domains such as operations, procurement, inventory, BI, or data analysis.
Proficiency with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Power Query, or equivalent reporting and visualization tools.
Experience working with ERP systems or large-scale operational data sets.
Background in food manufacturing, CPG, ingredients, packaging, warehousing, logistics, or multi-site manufacturing.

Experience with ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics, Aptean F&B, Catalyst, SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, or similar
Experience supporting ERP migrations, system conversions, data cleanup, or master data improvement projects
Familiarity with item master data, BOMs, purchase orders, inventory transactions, and production reporting
Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, economics, operations management, finance, or related field

Supply Chain Data Analyst (Food Manufacturing)

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