Staff Data Analyst, Logistics

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Role Summary

The Logistics Data Analyst is a key role within the Product Management team within the Logistics group at Rivian, focusing on all things data!  Responsibilities will include gathering, organizing, analyzing and visualizing data from various Rivian Systems to tell impactful stories, find areas of opportunity to support business decisions.  In addition to being a subject matter expert on these various datasets, this role will be responsible for performing and presenting various ad-hoc analyses and creating sustainable metrics, KPIs and tools to support the various logistics groups.

The ideal candidate has the ability to understand and communicate complex issues and ideas to a variety of audiences, manage competing priorities through effective communication and documentation, and work effectively with cross-functional team members. We’re looking for an organized self-starter with an analytical mind and experience with various analytical tools (data viz, ETL, modeling).

Responsibilities

  • Analyze complex business problems using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers
  • Interpret business requirements and perform analysis to support strategic and tactical objectives
  • Create ad-hoc reports for various stakeholders to support strategic and tactical initiatives
  • Develop, manage, and maintain data, KPIs and processes for the logistics group ensuring reliability, integrity, and accuracy of data
  • Analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve data collection processes
  • Identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets to locate root-cause drivers
  • Automate non-value-added tasks and data collection for dashboards in collaboration with IT
  • Support Logistics Systems with testing, implementations and enhancements

 

PROJECT PORTFOLIO DETAILS

  • Develop and enhance current processes, data pipelines and data visualizations based on user feedback and best practices
  • Assist in ad-hoc analyses surrounding a variety of tactical and strategic initiatives, reporting out on recommendations and results
  • Establish control processes and guidelines around ETL tasks, data maintenance and data visualization
  • Facilitate and coordinate logistics data integrity concerns and provide a regular communication link back to stakeholders
  • Support systems data analysis including: TMS (inbound materials and finished vehicles) and GTM (global trade management)
  • Partner with logistics operations, purchasing, engineering, material planning and IT to continuously improve data accuracy

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Data Analytics, Logistics, or Supply Chain
  • 6 years’ experience in structuring, analyzing, and visualizing large data sets
  • Working or practical knowledge of automotive manufacturing, supply chain and logistics is preferred
  • Understanding of S&OP, forecasting, inputs, and assumptions necessary to complete logistics analyses
  • Practical experience leading/managing collaborative projects with extremely complex/technical detail subject matter
  • Experience with Data visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI) and data transformation tools (Alteryx, Knime) – Knowledge of SQL, R and/or Python is a plus
  • Experience with Automation/RPA would be beneficial, but not required
  • Experience with JIRA, Confluence and/or other project management and documentation tools is beneficial, but not required
  • Must be willing to travel up to 20%

Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Candidate Data Privacy

Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. 

Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services. 

Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.  

 

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