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Join Our Community of Food People!Enterprise Data Governance is formalizing and guiding behavior around the definition, production, and use of data to manage risk, improve data quality and usability, and enable strategic initiatives. Data Governance partners with business owners across the enterprise to gain alignment, promote engagement and participation with data governance initiatives.The Business Analyst (Insights & Analytics) – Enterprise Data Governance - is responsible for providing analytical support to Data Governance business partners and initiatives. Analytical support includes conducting and delivering analysis, development and delivery of ad hoc and regular reports, and developing analytics and processes to support business partners’ strategies. Utilize continuous improvement methodology to document existing processes and propose improvements.This role is aligned with multiple teams within Insights and Analytics with a focus on Customer and Enterprise Data Governance products. The Business Analyst will work with large data sets across multiple systems and must be able to synthesize data, understand its relationships and impacts, suggest process improvements, as well as establish and oversee governance metrics to observe solution effectiveness.ANALYTICS AND SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT:
Help maintain Metadata Management Tool and strategy to collect data catalog elements, review data lineage, train business users, and champion the tool across the enterprise
Conducts complex root cause analysis on business problems for business partners, to identify insights that inform and drive key business decisions
Synthesize analyses and develop clear and concise communications and presentations to business partners. Present analyses to business partners with very limited oversight and supervision.
Lead analyses for business partners to enhance goals of their program(s). Analyses includes gathering and cleansing data; incorporating and interpreting mathematical analyses with Decision Sciences team; and developing insights from analyses.
Partners with Data Scientists and Decision Scientists on the types of business problems that can be solved; on how to problem solve for an approach on the data sets required; and on the methodology required
Own relationships with all business partners including Directors, Managers, and Leads of assigned business function and other business partners
Developing as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and thought leader of relevant analytics for assigned business function, including applicable analytics, appropriate applications
TOOLS AND REPORTS DEVELOPMENT:
Provide thought leadership in areas of tools and reports development. Create ad hoc and regular reports to meet business needs.
Lead development of tools and reports for end users, including developing requirements, reviewing user stories, evaluating IT development progress, managing User Acceptance Testing, and training end users
Trains teammates on 1:1 basis on use of key tools and reports
Serve as a ‘Power User’ of custom and 3rd party applications, advanced querying and complex data aggregations and analyses not supported by a single application
Collaborates with IT, consultants, and end users
Developing as Subject Matter Expert (SME) of applicable tools, databases, and systems
Engages with and contributes to Data Management committee on best practices, lessons learned, and knowledge sharing on analytics and tools across the enterprise
STRATEGY, PROCESS AND TOOLS:
Documenting business glossary, data lineage and data quality rules and evangelize these resources across the enterprise
Identify and develop analytics to support and measure strategies for business partners
Influence and evangelize analytical methodologies to support business partners’ needs
Identify opportunities to standardize processes through analytics and tools
Support integration of strategies, analytics, processes, and tools
Develop and refine core best practices to enhance the influence of Insights & Analytics across the organization
Developing as SME on processes and tools
Collaborate with business function(s) on analytical needs for project needs (e.g., actively participate in functional meetings and cross-functional project planning meetings)
TravelAvailable for occasional travel as business requires (less than 5% of time)QualificationsEDUCATION / TRAINING:
Bachelor’s degree in Business / Marketing / Finance / Operations/ Supply Chain Management/ Engineering or related quantitative field required
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Minimum of 3 years demonstrated successful experience in analytical roles in statistical analysis, business analysis, data analysis, data reporting
Minimum of 3 years demonstrated successful experience in analytical roles
Minimum of 3 years demonstrated successful experience in food distribution, retail, CPG, or related industries with large datasets and transactional data
Experience in Data Governance, Project Management, Continuous Improvement and requirements gathering a plus
KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES:
Business Strategy and Analytics:
Strong functional business acumen
Developing cross-functional expertise across multiple business functions
Excellent data manipulation and analysis skills
Ability to think logically and analytically
Detail oriented
Able to take complex, ambiguous problems, break them down into smaller parts, and problem solve to come up with a whole, integrated, and strategic solution
Creative problem solver
Self-direction and Team Work:
High degree of motivation
Ability to work independently and within a team
Very consistent ability to build consensus and lead work streams
Highly organized with the ability to multitask and prioritize workloads
Provide direction and oversight of project completion
Communication:
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong presentation skills
Able to communicate complex concepts clearly
Ability to influence change within complex organizations
Ability to relate to others
Strong knowledge of information visualization best practices and strategies
Has taken (or is enrolled in) and applying Insights and Analytics learning curriculum for Change Management, Project Management, and Presentations that Rock/Presentations that Deliver; or has attended similar related training initiatives
Developing ability to train varied audiences on analytics principles, tools, and leading analytics practices
Proficiency in the following required:
MS Office Suite, including:
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables; slicer; vlookup, hlookup; formulas; if then statements)
Microsoft PowerPoint (e.g., update presentations; create graphs, tables and other data visualization techniques)
Microsoft Word
Data querying methodologies and languages (e.g. SQL)
Tableau or related visual presentation/reporting tool
Cloud-based data warehouse environments (e.g., Snowflake/Redshift)
Proficiency, active development, knowledge of, or application within at least one of the following a plus:
Open Source Technology (e.g. Python, R)
MS Access
3rd party tools with embedded querying, reporting, and analytical applications (e.g. functional tools used in marketing, sales, or supply chain)
Metadata management tools and knowledge of data governance practices
Agile within an Analytics organization
EOE Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Protected Veteran/Disability StatusUS Foods is one of America’s great food companies and a leading foodservice distributor, partnering with approximately 300,000 restaurants and foodservice operators to help their businesses succeed. With 28,000 employees and more than 70 locations, US Foods provides its customers with a broad and innovative food offering and a comprehensive suite of e-commerce, technology and business solutions. US Foods is headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., and generates more than $28 billion in annual revenue. Visit www.usfoods.com to learn more.US Foods, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.EEO is the Law poster is available here at https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf .EEO is the Law poster supplement is available here at https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCPEEOSupplementFinalJRFQA508c.pdf .Pay Transparency policy statement is available here at https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay-transpformattedESQA508c.pdf .
