Vuori is looking for a Sourcing & Operations Analytics Manager to create analytical solutions and data insights for the Sourcing and Development teams and ensure connectivity within enterprise applications. This role involves working collaboratively with various product teams to ensure accurate, timely, and actionable reporting to support decision-making and operational efficiency. Most of the work will be focused on the Materials, ESG, Sourcing and Raw Material Planning domains, so experience in data analytics within apparel retail is preferred. This role will own the design, development and delivery of insights & analytics to ensure the technical requirements support the Sourcing, Development and Materials business needs through tool/template creation and software applications. The Sourcing & Operations Analytics Manager will play a critical role in enabling transparency, accountability, and operational performance while creating data democratization via self-service reporting at Vuori.
What you'll get to do:
- Build and own analytic and visualization tools and business semantic layer driving self-service and curated reports/dashboards
- Introduce and execute innovative & proactive analytical techniques and technologies enabling business analytic capabilities that drive ROI
- Collaborate with business partners to understand technical needs, gather requirements, map to existing systems, define and create new solutions.
- Propose solutions using applications, business processes or both, to support business growth.
- Lead to drive overarching strategy on tools, process and analytics across Sourcing, Development, ESG and Materials departments.
- Create and maintain process documentation and lead end user training, troubleshooting, business consultation.
- Manage projects to implement system enhancements and new enterprise application solutions.
- Experience with system integrations, data flows, ensuring system connectivity across systems and applications.
- Ability to translate technical issues in simple terms to business users – some understanding of programming techniques and infrastructure, along with knowledge of the full software development and project management lifecycle.
- Strong problem solving, collaboration, communication and presentation skills; ability to effectively interact with team members and cross functional partners.
- Analyze and evaluate existing business applications, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement, and develop solutions to address them.
- Stay current with industry trends, technological advancements, and best practices in data management, and proactively implement relevant improvements to our processes.
- Collaborate with a team of employees and consultants to deliver best in class analytic solutions as part of business analytic capability driven product team.
- Embracing AI to be more productive and to drive new insights.