Data Analyst

Data Analyst


Are you a curious changemaker who thrives in a fast-paced, global and complex environment? Does the opportunity to make an impact excite you, and are you looking for a career where you grow and learn every day? At Volvo Group Purchasing we shape the world we want to live in, by leveraging our ecosystem of supply network partners to drive prosperity.


Innovation, sustainability, diversity, competitiveness, resiliency, new business models, and digitalization are all key drivers in how we select partners, partners that have the same value based and people centric view of the world as we do here at Volvo Group.


Together we deliver business value to our customers and the Volvo Group.


We are looking for talent with passion, commitment and big ideas who want to make a difference.
Sounds like you? Join our team!


The Purchasing Strategy & Digitalization (PS&D) function within Volvo Group Purchasing (GTP) is a Centre of Excellence. We are responsible for driving and facilitating the strategic direction of purchasing on behalf of Executive Management Team.


PS&D are, together with relevant line functions, driving efficiency within digitalization, governance, harmonization, group synergies, continuous improvements, and digital & IT projects to enable business value. We work proactively with change management and transformation in collaboration with GTP line functions.


Head of Purchasing Strategy & Digitalization is also hosting Volvo Group Purchasing India organization on behalf of CPO of Volvo Group & Head of GTP.


Who are you?
We are gearing up our digitalization ambitions in purchasing. The new Supply Network Analytics structure will help ensure the team is able to meet the visualization and analytics needs of the organization, while preparing for the future and the use of more advanced analytics.


I collect, visualize and analyse data for opportunities / problems defined by the business. I am able to extract and structure data using specialized analytics tools. I build data models and standard reports and tools for a wider user community.


Main Activities and Responsibilities
Develop and implement data analytics methodologies to assist in problem solving and in making forecasts and predictions.
Build information entities and data sets.
Extract and structure data using specialized analytics tools and use it to analyze opportunities / problems defined by the business.
Analyze the extracted data and come up with inferences.
Adapt standard / summary reports and executive level presentations to direct business strategy like PowerBI solutions, …
Responsible for analytics assignment, from data and business value exploration.
Build expertise in data sources to find, manage and simplify complex data.
Integrate data and product knowledge to build cases and convey insights.
Suggest improvement proposals, towards local and global organization.
Generate user friendly reports and improve them.
Support the strategic roadmap for both analytics methods and the future tools and platform.
Contribute to solving some complex challenges in the areas of data mining and optimization.
Actively find new ways to support purchasing to improve existing data structure.
Extract and structure data using specialized analytics tools under general supervision.



Qualifications
University degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Statistics or Mathematics
Data analytics experience in automotive industry related to Purchasing and supply chain domain is an added advantage
Ability to use descriptive statistical methods (distribution, regression, classification, statistical tests, ...)
Exposure to visualization tools, like PowerBI, …
Sharp analytic and logical mindset and effective problem solver
Ability to effectively translate business problems into technical challenges
Creativity and innovative thinking reframing traditional patterns of thinking and applying new and evolving ideas, methods, designs and technologies
Experience of working in Agile methodology environment is preferred
Ability to deliver concrete results with speed and strong collaboration skills
Ability to work in an environment were not everything will be framed from day 1
Good communication skills.



For more information, please contact Michele Presiazniuk - michele.presiazniuk@volvo.com


About Volvo Group Purchasing
Located in 21 countries around the world, around 1 350 employees and a yearly spend of 150 BSEK. Our current ecosystem of suppliers exceeds 50, 000, and every year around 1.9 billion parts are delivered to Group Truck plants around the world.


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