Aftermarket Business Analyst (Information Technology)

Introduction to AM General

AM General develops and builds specialized ground vehicle systems that get the US Armed Services and our allies to and from their mission safely.  Our innovative spirit delivers advanced, rugged, resilient, and dependable mobility solutions.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists the Director Global Aftermarket Programs in management and execution of the department's daily operations through defining, creating, and executing analysts.
• Leads department's data analysis efforts, including performing market/country analysis and competitive intelligence gathering and analysis.
• Gather and analyze data for potential business expansion and weakness.
• Identify specific business opportunities.
• Preform market, channel, and product line performance analysis, with identifying gaps and details to act.
• Assist with project management for selected projects.
• Coordinate with different departmental teams to produce better business outcomes.
• Create reports, dashboards, and visualizations to understand business performance.
• Analyze process issues and bottlenecks and to make improvements.
• Communicate and validate requirements with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain reporting tools.
• Perform data discovery, analysis, and modeling.
• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.
• Support the department's forecasting and reporting resources to assist the team with achieving the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) goals and objectives.
• Actively identifies process continuous improvements across all areas of responsibility. Develops supporting rationale to justify changes.  Champions the changes throughout approval and implementation process.
• Supports other duties as assigned by the Director Global Aftermarket Programs.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Required B.S. Finance, Strategy, Project Management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated strategic and tactical planning to address customer needs and company goals.
• Strong initiative to uncover team's needs and define gaps and opportunities from the data with approaching trends.
• Extremely strong Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, chart creation, and complex spreadsheet management abilities.
• Strong working knowledge of the other MS Office software suite.
• Strong ability to create needed reports from SAP.
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.
• Knowledge of general project management principles.
• Understanding of international business processes, due diligence vetting, and risk mitigation procedures is a plus.
• Must be able to work alone, as well as part of a team.
• Must be able to build consensus, make a decision, provide direction, and deliver.

PHYSICAL EFFORT 

• Sight: must be able to regularly read computer screen, reports, and various documents with detail and clarity so as to accomplish work tasks in a safe and efficient manner. This includes regular use of adequate close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Hearing: must be able to regularly hear well enough to communicate.
• Hand-Eye Coordination: must be able to regularly coordinate one's eyes with one's fingers, wrists, or arms to move, carry, or manipulate objects or to perform other job-related tasks.
• Manual Dexterity: must be able to regularly make quick, accurate, skillful, and coordinated movement with hands and arms to grasp, place, move, or use objects such as phone, computer, and other office equipment, tools, or controls.
• Agility: must be able to regularly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, or legs to perform job tasks. This includes the ability to move throughout all areas of the facility, Company's property surrounding facility, or additional work areas.   
• Climbing / Kneeling: must be able to occasionally climb, kneel, bend over, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, with balance.
• Lifting: must be able to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds with or without assistance.
• Physical Strength: must be able to occasionally lift, push, pull, or carry objects using hands, arms, back, abdominal muscles, shoulders, legs, or a combination of these muscle groups.
• Stamina: must be able to occasionally exert oneself physically over long periods of time. This may include performing repetitive or strenuous tasks as well as standing and sitting for long periods.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Physical Location:  This position operates between an office and manufacturing plant environment and is often assigned to a specific shift or hours. Employee must be able to perform job functions in environment with varying difficult work conditions such as extreme cold, heat, inclement weather, at heights, and/or while exposed to constant/intermittent loud noises.   
• Teamwork: This position will work with others to ensure efficiency in the workplace.
• Listening Skills:  This position will need to understand how to use machinery properly and safely to prevent accidents and ensure all tasks are completed accurately.
• Ability to follow instructions:  Managers assign tasks and responsibilities, which vary depending on the products being manufactured; this position should be able to follow instructions competently.
• Methodical approach:  Production lines follow a set process, so this position needs a methodical approach to ensure all tasks are completed in the correct order for a smooth-running production line.
• Concentration:  This position may perform the same or similar tasks repeatedly, so a strong level of concentration when carrying out these tasks is important for quality control purposes. This role is often fast paced, so being able to maintain focus at all times is important.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS 

• Overall travel is minimal, approximately 10-15%.
• Domestic travel is likely to visit AM General's other facilities to coordinate with stakeholders at these locations.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Business Development