Strategic Operations Analyst

Responsibilities

• Through a combination of management guidance and independent initiative, conduct analyses of the Zoox supply base and partner landscape, new trends, cost structure, geographic supplier dispersion, and the market at large to identify opportunities/recommendations.
• Act as a liaison between cross-functional partners of the SCQR team, including Finance, Strategy, Vehicle Development, Manufacturing Operations, and Program Management
• Analyze complex business problems and proactively mitigate potential issues by utilizing data from internal and external sources 
• Lead cross-functional discussions to drive continuous improvements in total supply chain performance, paying close attention to cost, lead time, quality, and reliability.
• Make clear, fact-based recommendations on the path forward
• Understand business processes and how they map to Zoox’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, identifying and implementing process optimizations together with cross-functional stakeholders
• Manage Zoox’s Procurement Database, facilitating continuous improvements with the platform provider, data hygiene, reporting, and consistency with other Zoox systems
• Identify and interpret trends and patterns in disparate datasets, and provide insights to decision-makers
• Eliminate non-value-added tasks and data collection for dashboards in collaboration with IT and BizApps
• Make recommendations about databases, both current and future, and spearhead constant improvement, implementation, and future management

Qualfiications

• At least five (5) years of experience working in an analytical role, preferably at a management consulting firm, investment bank, start-up, or similarly rigorous analytical environment
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, or other business/analytical disciplines
• A track record of collecting and analyzing business intelligence data to deliver strategic-level insights without management's direction
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities 
• Continuous improvement expertise (agile, scrum, lean, etc.)
• Strong capabilities in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace tools
• Experience in structuring, analyzing, and visualizing large data sets
• Analytical ability to organize and draw insights from unstructured data and inputs from multiple sources to provide fact-based recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration with small and large cross-functional groups
• Strong collaborator with willingness and ability to drive change

Bonus Qualifications

• MBA or similar Master's-level program
• Experience using agile methodologies: JIRA and Confluence 
• Background in supply chain, operations and/or sourcing is preferred
• Recent Looker experience
• Familiarity with programming languages for data analysis, such as Python, R, or SQL
• Program management experience