Summary
Our First Mile projects are a key component for ECOM as an origin integrated trading company and have been a focus of our sustainability, traceability, and impact work for a long time. With recent updates in the EU regulations and increased stakeholder pressures, data capture within the first mile of our supply chain is now more important than ever.
ECOM’s First Mile technology project is key within the group as we work to increase transparency and traceability to support business and regulatory needs with timely deadlines and as we deliver our digital product that can support ECOM’s ongoing sustainable commitments in the future across all commodities. This project is working in an agile environment with developing business needs as the regulation changes and new pressures and requirements become known over the short and medium term.
The Role
The Commodities Business Analyst will work within the larger global Transformation Team and will provide a commodity/business focus to assess, report and assist with the deployment of the First Mile product in the different businesses within the Group in different origin countries.
This role is based on London and has a global scope, working with our different businesses analysing from a commodities/business perspective by spending time in the different origins to understand their business and be able to record and analyse current ways of working to the point of implementation and post implementation analysis.
Responsibilities
Tasks will include:
1. Develop cross commodity business insight to be able to support the optimisation and development of business processes
2. Highlight future transformational changes, initially focusing on the First Mile projects, with an opportunity to develop further
3. Conduct discovery of origin as-is processes and compare and map differences compared to global ECOM process templates
4. Build relationships with the origin teams to facilitate integration and adoption of new first mile technology
5. Build processes to improve data standardization, quality and coverage, with a specific initial focus on EU regulation compliance,
6. Preparation of materials for various stakeholders
7. To work closely with the Business teams to align on business requirements and ensure alignment with the First Mile projects,
8. To make recommendations, proposal of standardisations and prioritisation methodologies for the Business teams within an agile project structure
9. Coordinate the rollout plans for various projects and communicate these with the First Mile Change lead, Service team and First Mile Project Manager
10. Provide updates and risks associated to activities assigned to the First Mile Product team in the format predefined for each of the projects
Skills & Experience:
11. Minimum 2 years’ experience as a business analyst within a project environment with a proven interest in working in a business process/transformation area.
12. A degree in Business, Management, or related field or equivalent experience
13. Skills, knowledge and experience within the commodity industry or in a supply chain environment is highly desirable
14. Knowledge and experience of communications planning and delivery to support change initiatives, and able to clearly articulate messages to a wide variety of audiences
15. Proven numeracy, analytical and report writing skills
16. Ability to work independently and in a proactive manner.
17. Excellent communication skills and ability to engage in proactive ways with various teams within origin countries
18. Strong attention to detail
19. Fluent English required
20. Spanish or/and French speaking would be desirable