Operations Analyst

Job Title: Operations Analyst
Location: Beaverton, OR
Duration: 12 Months Contract
 
Job Description:

• Analyzes plans, conducts, and/or prepares plans or procedures that provide operational and/or technical support to business operations to achieve specific objectives.
• Advises business groups by providing direction to initiative prioritization, integration, and resource application.
• Maintains ongoing communication and engagement with stakeholders.
• Tracks, maintains, and provides current information on the operation's business scorecard.
• Ensures effective and efficient operations through conducting operations analyses (i.e. operational effectiveness and capacity utilization) and recommends improvements.

 
Education:
Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 2-4 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law 1 yr; Masters 0-3 yrs; Associates degree 1-3 yrs; High School 3-5 yrs.
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct operational analyses to assess effectiveness, capacity utilization, and overall efficiency.
• Track, maintain, and report on key performance metrics using business management scorecards.
• Identify and investigate root causes of inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and process deviations.
• Develop and implement improvement strategies in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Facilitate brainstorming sessions, workshops, and training programs to promote innovation and continuous improvement.
• Perform process mapping and documentation to analyze workflows and identify areas for optimization.
• Utilize tools such as flowcharts to visualize processes and drive process improvements.
• Gather and analyze performance data, identifying key metrics and KPIs to inform decision-making.

 
Notes:

• This role will assist with a special project to scale an Assortment planning tool (in excel) across North America.
• Account executives will use it to reference sell-in data to help with sales to Market Partners (wholesales). It is currently placed in a large and complicated excel data book and needs to be more accessible.

 
Must have:

• 2 YOE in Go-to-Market for major apparel or footwear industry, from sales process to the market
• Advanced ExcelVBA visual basic applications (coding in excel)
• Experience create story telling documentation that can transcend multiple levels of leadership process mapping, synthesising data, making hard to understand topics easily understood

 
Nice to Have:

• Experience using a CODE calendar countdown to product release or wholesale go-to-market product launch process
• Business process improvement and efficiency
• Organized and can gather and track info, can summarize ambiguous info

 
Team:
Partner facing in wholesale business