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IT Business Analyst - Warehouse Management at Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Roswell, Georgia





Job Description:

IT Business Analyst - Warehouse Management

Job Description

Through collaboration, you can turn good ideas into great outcomes

You believe that it often takes a variety of viewpoints to reach more informed outcomes. You’re energized by open dialogue and collaborative brainstorming. We encourage collaborations, with the understanding that different perspectives can lead to exciting outcomes for all. Let’s talk about how we can work together.

The Digital Technology Solutions (DTS) organization is seeking an experienced Business Analyst (BA) for a role on the Warehouse Management team (WMS).  This team supports and develops solutions for Kimberly-Clark’s warehouse management systems in the KCNA region.  The team focuses on delivering business value via process and system enhancements, projects, and support.

Role Responsibilities:


  • Leads and delivers the analysis, design, configuration, customization, testing, deployment and support for applications within the warehouse management business process area.


  • Functional leader of medium to large projects for a specific business capability.  Accountabilities across multiple functional and technical areas with wide range of complexity.


  • Proactive analysis of business processes and identification of innovative ways to use technology to address near term business needs which includes identifying these opportunities, reviewing and obtaining a disposition decision from the appropriate business client, assessing the fit of these opportunities into current initiatives, or including the opportunity in future demand


  • Participates with Business resources to establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the business process.


  • As part of this team, the WMS BA will be responsible for integrating business, information, and technology architecture to create solutions for the relevant business capability area and in some cases, cross capability areas.


  • Focus on cost savings, business growth, as well as connecting with partners and customers.


Business analysis: Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes. Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration. Identifies potential benefits, and available options for consideration. Works with clients/users in defining acceptance tests.

Business risk management: Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business. Uses consistent processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence and the impact on the business. Refers to domain experts for guidance on specialized areas of risk, such as architecture and environment. Co-ordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans.

Requirements Definition and Management: Facilitates scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source. Discovers and analyses requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adherence to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate. Obtains formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope and requirements and establishes a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence. Manages requests for and the application of changes to base-lined requirements. Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position.

Scope/Categories:

Role will report to the ITAS WMS organization. Role will not have any direct reports. Key Interfaces: Functional Engineer, Business Client, Data & Analytics team, Solution Engineers. Enterprise Architects. and Project Managers. External Interfaces: Consultants, 3rd Party providers. Travel may include approximately up to 40% of work time in some months.

Key Accountabilities: 


  • Accountabilities across multiple functional and technical analytical areas with wide range of complexity. Leader of medium to complex projects for a specific business capability or across multiple capabilities.


  • Translates non-functional and functional requirements into end-to-end analytical solution designs, ensuring solution aligns with business goals and processes, uses and provides enterprise information consistently, integrates effectively with other applications and supports a common application environment.


  • Collaborates with other BA and Enterprise Architecture to make sure that solutions fit within enterprise context and aims for standardization of solutions across K-C’s application landscape.


  • Coordinates medium to complex WMS / EWM implementations while leading design variances based upon business needs.


  • Coordinates engagements with vendors as they relate to evaluation, design and delivery of business capabilities. Contributes to the evaluation and selection of software product standards.


Required Qualifications and Experiences:


  • A minimum of 5 years of applied IT experience.


  • SAP experience in Supply Chain related modules (SD, MM, LE, PP, SCM).


  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.


  • Strong communication skills.


  • Possess strong leadership skills and exhibit creative thinking to be able to come up with inventive solutions to solve business challenges.


  • Comfortable consulting with resources from other disciplines and effective at working across multiple organizational boundaries


Preferred Qualifications:


  • SAP functional and configuration knowledge of the SAP’s extended warehouse management (EWM) or Warehouse Management (WM) processes.


  • Knowledge of SAP user exits, BAPI’s, and BADI’s.


  • Knowledge of ABAP concepts and ability to debug.


  • Experience working in a virtual team across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines. Role Skills/Competencies:


Your hands-on experience makes you the “idea contributor” we want

Your suggestions on how to improve your work experience are extremely valuable to us, because they are the result of your hands-on experience. If you notice something that can be done more effectively or economically, you’ll be encouraged to bring it to our attention. Our staff is comprised of people from diverse personal backgrounds who are all welcomed, included, and considered an important part of our organization. We invite your application.

Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people - nearly a quarter of the world's population - trust K-C brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No.1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. With more than 140 years of history of innovation, we believe in recruiting the best people and empowering them do their best work.  If fresh thinking and a passion to win inspire you, come Unleash Your Power at Kimberly-Clark. 

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This position may require a post-offer/pre-hire Physical Abilities Test (PAT) to confirm that individuals are able to perform the essential functions of the job.

K-C requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based.  In the event an applicant does not have current work authorization, K-C will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization.  However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship. This position is subject to drug and alcohol testing, including pre-employment testing.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role.The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided in K-C’s sole discretion.

Primary Location

USA-GA-Atlanta-Roswell

Additional Locations

USA-TX-Dallas, USA-WI-Neenah

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time





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