Senior Business Analyst Apple - Singapore

Senior Business Analyst

Apple - Singapore

Job Description

The World Wide Supply Chain team is seeking to hire a Senior Business Analyst  to join the team.

The role will be varied, encompassing all aspects of Supply Chain Operations throughout the life cycle of our products. The position is based in Singapore and reports to the Asia Pacific Supply Chain Manager.
The successful candidate will have high level analytical skills with the ability to dissect and analyse large amounts of data, present in an understandable format plus develop and present proposals for change.
This role will require the person to work both on individual studies and as part of wider project teams delivering significant business change.


Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in:

Identifying & analysing large amounts of information from multiple sources to
identify profiles & trends. This could be APAC specific or it could be for any Apple geography or World Wide Analysis
The person will form part of the Global Supply Chain Group and ensure they are representing the requirements of the Asia Pacific region in the Global Supply Chain meetings.
A key part of their role will be to understand and leverage the Supply Chain concepts and opportunities being worked across the other regions with a view to applying these to the Asia Pacific region. Where appropriate they will project manage the implementation of these initiatives in their region working closely with the relevant Supply Chain and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) teams.
The person will drive innovative and challenging thinking in our approach to supply chain and will ensure appropriate benchmarking takes place from a regional Supply Chain perspective at least on an annual basis.
Undertake analysis to support decision making on fulfillment decisions.
Evaluating current business processes and identify opportunities to improve.
Present comprehensive proposals for enhancements based on investigations &
analysis undertaken
Work closely with Finance to focus on the identification of supply chain cost
challenges and opportunities by product and by route to market.
Work closely with other operational business units such as Reseller Operations, SDM, Retail Fulfillment and Apple Fulfillment Operations to focus on the identification of supply chain cost
challenges and opportunities.
Developing processes focusing on cost, lead-time and customer supply chain
performance expectations
Ability to maintain and develop relationships, within a project and team.
Administrative tasks related to projects

Desired Skills & Experience

Requirements:

Technical person with the ability to quickly understand business processes and business drivers
Strong analytical and financial capabilities with experience in developing suites of reporting
Ability to manage complex projects in a matrix organization
A desire to operate hands on in the role and have excellent verbal, analytical,
written, organizational and interpersonal skills
The appetite of a self-starter who is motivated and innovative, with a high
tolerance of stress in managing multiple priorities and meeting all deadlines
Strong excel skills are essential with data base experience a distinct advantage
Experience with LTL, FTL, Parcel, Air and Ocean modes of transportation and
providers of same, as well as global shipping standards and freight forwarding,
would be a distinct advantage.
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Academic Qualifications:
Educated to degree level or equivalent in a Business Management discipline.

Company Description

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with Mac OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.