Sr Analyst, Sourcing Offer and Strategy

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Core to Grainger's value is our commitment to get our customers what they need, when they need it, to keep their operations running and their people safe. Grainger Sourcing provides an important part to this offer, ensuring that we get critical products to our most-valued customers in their times of need. As Senior Business Analyst, you will partner with the Sourcing leadership team to solve the most challenging strategic and operational issues facing the department. You will function as an internal consultant responsible for generating insights and recommendations through analytics to influence the future strategy and operating model of the organization as we transform the way we bring value to our customers. You will report to the Manager, Sourcing Offer and Srategy and can be based in either Lake Forest, IL or downtown Chicago on a hybrid (3 days per week) basis.

You Will:

• Work with Sourcing leadership team and partners to understand current challenges and needs, evaluate existing processes, identify problems and opportunities for improvement, and formulate hypotheses on potential solutions

• Develop measurement dashboards for core workflows, creating insights for leadership to take actions in support of operational excellence and overall quality

• Partner on Sourcing offer development and positioning by providing structured data-driven analyses and discovery to evaluate hypotheses and support development of Sourcing's strategic vision

• Identify and analyze information to test and further hypotheses and ensure fact-based decisions

• Perform ad hoc analytics to support strategy development and operations while also communicating findings and developing recommendations to leadership

• Partner across the Grainger organization at different levels to solicit voice of customer feedback to inform recommendations

• Manage the department's reporting and data landscape by leading new design and implementation plans to support the oversight of operations and ensure consistency across the department.

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

• 3+ years of experience solving diverse and complex business problems

• Experience with data warehousing systems (e.g. Teradata, SQL, etc.), SAP, PowerBI, and Microsoft suite

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans

• Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year

• Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period

• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement

• A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.