SimWell Looking for Jr Network Strategy Planning and Optimization Analyst-Supply Chain at Remote Full Time

SimWell is a fast-growth consulting company that builds simulation and network models to solve complex business problems. SimWell specializes in simulation, network optimization, artificial intelligence, and data science. At SimWell, we believe our customers should never have to worry about choosing the wrong option when they make a decision inside their business – we provide the software, consulting, and services to make that possible.

Description

Position Overview

We are looking for a Jr. Network Strategy Planning and Optimization Analyst to join our rapidly growing team of supply chain, optimization, and simulation modeling experts. Our group works with an array of technologies and business challenges such as Digital Supply Chain Twins, Digital Supply Chain Strategy technology, Network strategy planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-commerce development/improvement, Transportation Planning, and strategy, Omni-channel builds, Reverse Management, Expansion planning and strategy, Resiliency, and so much more. We also conduct and simulate the future performance, tradeoffs, and customer service impacts of our models making certain that our design is aligned to business initiatives, building core competencies, vision, and the client’s customers.

The hire will be responsible for preparing the data, designing, and modeling supply chain’s current state, what-if scenarios, transforming them to a future state, delivering results in a visualization tool, and/or deliverable to achieve the client’s objectives. If you’re looking to work with cutting-edge technology, solve today’s biggest supply chain challenges, and work with top Fortune 500 companies then this is the place.

This is a full-time role reporting to our Supply Chain / AnyLogistix team. Benefits include healthcare, unlimited flexible working time which covers time off (vacation and sick days), and working days (work hours and locations are flexible). You can live and work anywhere in USA.

Responsibilities and Duties

Responsibilities and duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Be able to analyze data, prepare data, support the solution architectural component, model the end-to-end process, create visualizations or dashboards of the results, document, and provide deliverables.
• Capture and/or translate business requirements and process flow to design and model. Note: All new hires will be certified on Anylogistix upon being hired if not already professionally certified.
• Ability to manipulate, clean, format, and analyze complex data sets
• Run experiments in Greenfield/Brownfield, Network Optimization, Simulation, and Transportation Optimization to meet client spec scenarios
• Identifying opportunities or next steps for creating supply chain efficiencies and savings for the customer
• Conduct supply chain analysis and root cause to make recommendations
• Collaborate with Clients, Solutions Architect, Project Manager/Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Data engineers, Modelers to make sure the project is aligned to plans and timeline.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of the client’s supply chain and business challenges by conducting or collaborating to build business flows and workflows to help the team bridge the gap between the current state and/or future state
• Support clients in the areas of modeling and collaboration, applying SimWell methodology, and best practices

Requirements

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal; comfortable and effective in communicating with the client

Listening skills to understand actual customer needs and how to influence desired and innovative outcomes

Need to have two or three of the following interest or experiences:

Data manipulation and data querying skills

Ability to query and join data with any of the following databases, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc.

Network optimization, supply chain design, or process improvement experience

Creating and presenting data visualizations

Experience using any of the following tools, Microsoft PowerBi, Tableau, IBM Cognos, etc.

Strong Microsoft Excel user, for example, vlookups, piviot tables, visual basic for applications (VBA programming)

Strong problem solving, presentation, and analytical skills

Proficient in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint

Bachelor’s Degree or certifications in related fields such as; Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Statistics, Data Science/Analytics, Industrial Engineering, or similar field.

North American Based

Preferred:

• Internship experience
• Experience in an Agile environment
• Experience being a part of a team
• Experience working on and keeping track of tasks within a project
• Interest in Supply Chain trends and technologies
• Certification in Six Sigma, black, green, or yellow belt.
• Experience creating statistical analysis using tools such as Python’s Panadas, Numpy,

Scikit-learn, StatsModels, Seaborn libraries, or R’s dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, and caret

libraries.

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming using Python, Java, Etc.