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Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, LLC - A Yum! Brands Co-op · 10 hours ago

Senior Business Analyst

Louisville, KY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, LLC, a Yum! Brands Co-op, is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the Central Planning Team. The role focuses on supporting the technical aspects of the Blue Yonder system to maximize operational effectiveness and lead projects aimed at enhancing supply planning capabilities.

CRMFood and BeverageInformation Technology

Responsibilities

Drive Blue Yonder operational health and continuity

Ensure ongoing stability, usability, and performance of Blue Yonder to support day-to-day planning operations

Own the onboarding of new data sources, partners, and planning scenarios, ensuring changes are well-designed, validated, and smoothly adopted with minimal operational disruption

Manage Blue Yonder user access and permissions in alignment with internal audit and governance requirements

Maintain a strong working understanding of how planning data flows across systems to support accurate and reliable decision-making

Represent the Central Planning organization as a senior contributor in cross-functional initiatives and technology upgrades, advocating for planning process needs and system readiness

Function as a project coordinator and business representative in partnership with RSCS IT for new integrations, enhancements, reporting initiatives, and system improvements

Advance planning processes through enhanced Blue Yonder utilization

Serve as the senior subject-matter expert for Blue Yonder, providing thought leadership on how the platform is used to support and advance supply chain planning strategy

Lead the definition, documentation, and continuous improvement of planning business processes, ensuring Blue Yonder capabilities are aligned to current and future-state operating models

Partner closely with Plantensive, Brand, and Central Planning teams to shape planning assumptions and workflows, proactively identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, visibility, and planning quality

Implement the expansion and maturation of Blue Yonder utilization, recommending new use cases, features, or process changes that align with the evolution of planning capabilities

Serves as the primary owner for planning reports and insights

Creates business requirements for reporting needs to best support planning’s continuous improvement

Partners with the business analytics team to bring reporting functionality to life

Identifies opportunities where reporting would be beneficial or could be streamlined and improved

Ad hoc or weekly reporting needs where not yet fully automated

Maintain hands-on planning responsibility to inform analysis and insight

Own planning responsibility for a defined category (approximately 30–50 items) to maintain a deep understanding of planning execution and business realities

Ensure supply across core and promotional sales, leveraging technology systems (Blue Yonder) to create and execute supply plans and adjust fulfillment forecasts as needed

Collaborate with suppliers, distributors + redistributors, internal procurement team, and concept hub teams to ensure consensus understanding, preparedness, and execution

Maximize supply flexibility while minimizing cost implications and risk of obsolescence; ensuring the right products/ingredients are in the right location and at the right time

Monitor and account for capacity utilization; mitigate risk of product expiration; maintain network inventory targets; resolve fulfillment plan inaccuracies

Stay current on industry trends and best practices in supply chain planning and digital enablement, proactively recommending improvements that increase planning maturity and business value

Perform additional duties as required to support operational excellence and continuous improvement

Qualification

Blue YonderSupply Chain ManagementERP SolutionsAPICS CPIM certificationSix Sigma Green BeltOracle SQLMicrosoft Office SuiteAnalytics PowerBIAnalytics TableauBusiness process improvementCustomer service skillsInvestigational skillsCommunication skills

Required

Minimum of 5 years business experience, including two or more years managing supply planning data systems in an environment that leverages a high volume of transactional data for inventory, demand forecasting, and fulfillment planning

Bachelor's degree required

Required technical experience: Supply Chain Planning/ERP Solutions (i.e.: Blue Yonder, Oracle, SAP, Logility), Microsoft Office Suite, Analytics (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.), Coordination driving performance of third-party Cloud Service providers, Oracle SQL (queries to identify data issues), and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Preferred

Prefer experience at an organization supporting supply planning, manufacturing, or distribution for QSR

Prefer Supply Chain Management degree

Prefer APICS CPIM certification, Six Sigma Green Belt, or ISM CPSM certification

Prefer Blue Yonder Expertise: Comprehension of data models, tables, and columns and recent implementation or upgrade

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Vacation

Floating Holidays

Maternity/Paternity Leave

And much more.

Company

Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, LLC - A Yum! Brands Co-op

Restaurant Supply Chain Solutions, LLC (RSCS) based in Louisville, Ky., is the largest purchasing cooperative in the quick-service restaurant industry.

Founded in 1999

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

201-500 employees