The American Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network, and they are seeking a Business Planning Analyst II to support the Supply Management team. This role focuses on business process engineering, program administration, and data analysis to enhance operational efficiency and drive standardization.
Responsibilities:
- Lead business process engineering initiatives, redesigning workflows to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Develop and maintain detailed process maps (current and future state) to document workflows and identify improvement opportunities
- Conduct value stream mapping to evaluate end-to-end processes, eliminate waste, and improve cycle times
- Analyze processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for standardization
- Create data analytics and visualization tools to validate improvements and quantify business impact
- Provide program planning and decision support through data analysis, reporting, and insight generation
- Analyze financial and supply management data including budgets, cost drivers, supplier performance, and operational metrics
- Apply project management principles to manage multiple priorities and initiatives
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 3 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required
- Ability to develop project plans
- Demonstrated proficiency in collaboration, facilitation, planning, and problem-solving
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint)
- Ability to work on a team
- Experience working in supply management or education related to supply management
- Business process engineering and optimization skills
- Process mapping and value stream mapping experience
- Strong Data analytics and visualization (e.g., Power BI/Smartsheet and MS Project) experience
- Continuous improvement methodologies. (Lean/Six Sigma preferred)
- Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
- Strong Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills