Senior Business Analyst - Supply Chain

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Job description

Position Title: Senior Business Analyst - Supply Chain

Company Summary:

Crown Castle works around the country to build and maintain the infrastructure behind the world's most revolutionary technologies. Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and over 80,000 route miles of fiber supporting small cells and fiber solutions across every major US market. This nationwide portfolio of communications infrastructure connects cities and communities to essential data, technology and wireless service - bringing information, ideas and innovations to the people and businesses that need them. Crown Castle is an S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the United States with an enterprise value of approximately $110 billion.

Position Summary

The Senior Business Analyst (SBA) will be responsible for providing accurate, complete and meaningful reports and analysis used for category management and decision making. In partnership with Supply Chain Category Managers and Subject Matter Experts in the business, the SBA is responsible for creating and maintaining reports and analysis to be utilized by the Supply Chain team to determine cost savings, identify sourcing opportunities, and monitor compliance. The SBA is expected to deliver high quality analysis and drive continuous improvements throughout our category management processes, as well as support our analytics team in data mining and review.

Essential Job Functions

• Create and maintain reporting tools & analysis to determine cost savings, identify sourcing opportunites, and monitor compliance.


• Establishstrategy, processes andtools to effectively build product should-cost models to identify opportunities and utilize for negotiations.


• Facilitate internal meetings with managers and other team members to keep projects on track.


• Create insights from data to work with category managers, area material specialists and project managers to optimize supplier agreements.


• Proactively identify and partner to mitigate riskstoperformanceand pursue opportunities to improve performance with key stakeholders.


• Review customer opportunities related to demand to identify new initiatives for the team that could result in cost savings measures.


• Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with other company stakeholders to drive accomplishment of overall company goals and objectives.


• Create and distribute a monthly newlsetter to highlight Supply Chain endeavors, market data impacts and upcoming demand to provide a full sourcing and procurement view to Crown Castle Teammates.


• Support analytics team with categorization and clean up efforts related to master data management.


• Provide ad-hoc analysis to category management team & perform specials projects as requested.


• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related discipline preferred.

Experience/Minimum Requirements

• Five (5)+ years of combined experience in either of the following supply chain management, financial and/or operational reporting roles


• Five (5)+years experiencebuilding, analyzing and maintaining complex data models.


• Experience in capital intensive construction or engineering industries, telecom a plus


• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, organize and work effectively in a deadline-driven environment


• Experience in requirements gathering, scope drafting, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, and achieving objectives on schedule and within budget


• Knowledge of MS Excel (specifically, advanced formulas, Vlookup, pivot tables and charts) including experience building complex financial models


• Familiarity with forecasting methods and data analysis


• Experience with JDE and Oracle Financial system or similar ERP systems


• Experience with multiple unit reporting entities


• Understanding of metrics and their use to drive behavior and process change

Other Skills/Abilities

• Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization, including executive and senior management teams


• Ability to recognize problems, recommend solutions, and collaboratively implement changes leveraging strong analytical and problem-solving skills


• Ability to build and maintain relationships across cross-functional teams and to work effectively in a matrix organization


• Demonstrate candor and poise to field difficult questions from internal and external audience.


• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build and maintain trusting relationships.


• Understanding of the data sets that can be pulled from the system for reporting purposes.


• Make use of data to tell a story to the team and stakeholders and provide actionable recommendations.


• Effectively organize, prioritize and execute on initiatives to enhance performance.


• Support experimentation as a way to find the best solution.


• Ability to develop financial acumen to better understand economic and financial value drivers.


• Must have strong computer skills, specifically Microsoft (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), JDE ERP, & Oracle ERP

Organizational Relationship:

Reports to: Director, Strategic Sourcing

Title(s) of direct reports (if applicable): N/A

Working Conditions: Works in a normal office setting with no exposure to adverse environmental conditions on a hybrid schedule (3 days in office and 2 days at home). Minimal travel required.

Crown Castle is a federal contractor and the COVID-19 vaccination is a requirement of employment by your start date to comply with Executive Order 14042.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)