We are seeking a Business Program Manager/Analyst to support our large software client. The team you would be joining aims to optimize and deliver industry leading cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for the client’s online services used by customers around the world. This team is responsible for strategy and delivery of the foundational platform for all online services including demand and capacity forecasting, supply chain, data centers, networking, bandwidth, operations, and incident management. As the Business Program Manager/Analyst, your work will contribute to ensuring reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, program management experience and proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerBi.
**This is a contract role through June 2023 with opportunity to extend.**
Responsibilities:
- Own end to end scheduling and tracking of commodity qualification requests
- Interface with program manager to ensure timely creation of qualification requests and manage the data accuracy
- Coordinate between teams to ensure qualification status is up to date
- Develop timelines, dashboards, and process maps to document the needs of the business
- Support sourcing by providing relevant data to build dashboards
- Analyze the data to identify areas of improvement
- Document business requirements and developments for automation tools
Qualifications:
- Excellent business acumen, problem solving and analytical skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerBI
- Proven Project Management experience
- Business maturity to find creative approaches to bring clarity and consistency to resolve areas of uncertainty
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to navigate project dependencies with changing and/or conflicting priorities
- Ability to organize/categorize stakeholder requests/questions to help prioritize workstreams
- Understanding of SKUs and bills of material (BOMs)
- Understanding of Cloud Datacenter Infrastructure (e.g., server racks and components such as SSDs, Hard Drives, Memory) is a big plus.