Niagara Bottling is a leading beverage manufacturer in the U.S., supplying some of the largest brands and stores throughout the country. Niagara began as a family business in 1963, offering Niagara® water in five-gallon containers for home and office delivery.

In the early 1990s, we expanded into single-serve private label bottled water for grocery, club, convenience and wholesale customers. Today, we are committed to producing a variety of high-quality beverages, including bottled water, sparkling water, teas, sports drinks, non-dairy milk products and more, while reducing our impact on the environment.
We remain a family business, providing our customers with an unbeatable combination of quality, price and service.

Under general supervision, the Business Analyst I supports the department in developing and maintaining processes, system connections, reporting and metrics across all operations functions. This includes driving alignment across operations functions supporting the business. The Business Analyst I will also work closely with all internal teams throughout the business network to ensure systematic coordination between internal departments and customer order fulfilment expectations.

Essential Functions

• Address operational and strategic questions through clarifying the question, developing hypotheses, and building analytic structure to address the hypotheses
• Effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences. Develop recommendations from those findings and translate those recommendations into efficient action plans for senior management
• Collaborate with Planning, Customer Service, Logistics Operations, Procurement, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Information Technology, etc. to drive actions from insights and deliver business impact
• Contribute in developing scalable methods of measuring and tracking new KPIs
• Contribute to data cleansing and validation of various master data attributes and transactional data points in collaboration with Information Technology
• Contribute to process and operating model improvement through data driven insights in collaboration with Business Partners
• Contribute in ad-hoc analytics requirements, including but not limited to developing optimization models, predictive models, financial forecasting models upon request
• Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 0 Years – Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or Business
• 0 Years – Experience in a project support or coordinator role

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 Years– Experience in in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or Business
• 2 Years – Experience managing people/projects

Experience may include a combination of work experience and education

Competencies

• Above average skills in task management, reporting, and schedule tracking.
• Effective communication skills, verbal and written, to all levels of internal and external recipients
• Microsoft Office to include Outlook, Excel, Word & Power Point
• Ability to create and prepare concise and accurate reports and correspondence in a timely manner
• Strong skills in critical thinking and problem solving

This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:

Lead Like an Owner

• Makes safety the number one priority
• Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
• Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
• Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
• Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
• Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers

InnovACT

• Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
• Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
• Increases performance through greater efficiency

Find a Way

• Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
• Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
• Seeks solutions rather than placing blame

Empowered to be Great

• Consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities
• Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
• Communicates effectively to manage expectations

Education

Minimum Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administrations, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics, or related quantitative fields

Preferred:

• Master's Degree in Business Administrations, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics, or related quantitative fields