What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Business & Data Analytics position at FMI- The Food Industry Association?
NEW POSITION! SQFI is hiring a Business & Data Analytics Manager (Hybrid Role)
Do you enjoy aligning information technology systems with business operations? If you’re looking for a new opportunity where you can use your critical thinking and analytical skills, this might be a position for you.
Quick Snapshot: In this role, you will analyze business needs, develop technical documentation, and ensure alignment between IT solutions and business objectives. The management team will rely on you to recommend ways to streamline and make process improvements. This is a position that will help us grow our business.
What You’ll Do in This Role?
- Data Analysis: Collect, manipulate, analyze, and interpret data from various sources to draw business-relevant conclusions and support decision-making. Identify trends and patterns in data to help inform business decisions.
- Data Integration: Facilitate the integration of data from disparate systems to ensure consistency and reliability for analysis and reporting.
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement process optimizations to streamline SQFI’s audit management system, data, and associated workflows. Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimizations strategies.
- Documentation & Reporting: Create documentation, including functional specifications, process maps, data models, reports, visualizations, and dashboards to communicate findings and KPIs to senior management.
- Testing & Validation: Lead testing efforts to ensure system modifications meet business requirements, coordinating UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and resolving issues.
- Project Management: Lead or support projects aimed at improving SQF information systems, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Education and Skills That You’ll Need to be Successful:
- A minimum of three to five years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within a food safety, regulatory or audit environment.
- A college degree in Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance or a related field.
- Strong experience with: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, data analysis tools, data integration and reporting tools like Statistical Analytical Systems (SAS), Power BI, Tableau or similar tools, Python, and SQL.
- Knowledge of software development life cycles (SDLC) is a plus.
- Proven experience in process documentation, data analysis, and project management methodologies both traditional and Agile/Scrum.
- Experience with audit management systems or familiarity with Certification standards is a plus.
- Must be able to use logic, analytical and critical thinking skills to look at a problem using a big picture approach and consider multiple options. Must be a problem solver.
- Ability to extract and summarize data in a manner to tell a story.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- A passion for data-driven strategies and teamwork.
Why FMI and SQFI? At FMI, we are the champions for the food industry and the issues that make a difference to our members in the food industry. Our work touches the lives of over 100 million households in the U.S. and representing an $800 billion industry with nearly 6 million employees. As part of FMI, our Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) is a thriving global food safety and quality program (currently in 40 countries across 6 continents) that is recognized by food retailers, brand owners, and food service providers world-wide. The SQFI team is collaborative, dedicated, and experienced.
Our Benefits: We offer a generous benefits package that includes health benefits, 401(k), 11 paid holidays, paid leave benefits, a summer hours program allowing you to work only half days on Fridays during the summer, volunteer opportunities (if you want to give back to your community), the chance to join our employee wellness group and much more!
This position only requires you to be in the Arlington office a minimum of two days per week.
Apply Now: If you are a critical thinker who can look at a problem using a big picture approach into data and how it can help a company thrive while growing your career, we encourage you to apply.
Learn more about SQFI by visiting our website at www.sqfi.com. Learn more about FMI by visiting our website at www.fmi.org.
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FMI is an Equal-Opportunity Employer.
