Ascent Analyst

Job Description

• As a Fulfillment Operations Analyst you will have the immediate task of working with the Ascent and Pega tools to ensure Clear to Build containment across weeks 1-3 of the scheduled order horizon.
• Leverage your sense of urgency and responsiveness to plant needs to protect the daily and weekly schedules. Goal is to support existing operating plans and schedules without need to remix or incur production losses.

Responsibilities

• Act as change agent needing to find efficiencies in current state operations to allow the new tools to expand our horizon for evaluating supply risks.
• Empower your continuous improvement mindset to seek and mitigate premium costs. Find ways to improve processes to lessen the need for premium; find the most cost-efficient means to support established production schedules, and lead initiatives to reduce premium costs to the company in collaboration with our MP&L Logistics organization.
• Provide communication and dimension of risk as needed to escalate to leadership as well as report on the issues with solutions and / or need for assistance.
• Work cross-functionally with other internal teams including Purchasing, Supplier Technical Assistance (STA), Supplier Operations Team (SOT), Product Development, and plants.
• Manage critical suppliers and the accountability to Ford supplier expectations and Global Terms to enable weeks 1 -3 Clear to Build capability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Prior experience in a manufacturing or supply chain organization
• Knowledge of or experience in Ford with production planning and execution
• A proven track record in supply chain operations (inbound flows / Packaging / outbound flows / diversity / demand & supply planning / in-plant logistic operations / warehouse management)
• Well-versed with MS Office Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Bias for action in identifying and working to solve issues identified in the clear to build horizon.

Even better, you may have…

• Strong data analytical skills to gather data from multiple sources to identify root causes, trends & insights and recommend operational improvements on Supplier Delivery Performance
• Strong storytelling capabilities with data to enable data driven decision making benefiting the organization
• Strong knowledge of Ford MP&L systems like CMMS, Super G, GCP, MCPV, etc
• Knowledge of Alteryx or similar data analysis tools desired