Candidates who are able to work one day per week in Frankfurt or Amsterdam are highly preferred for this position.

Interested in a career that bridges the gap between Supply Chain and Technology?

Elemica, an award-winning, digital supply chain company in the SaaS community, is seeking an experienced Principal Business Analyst to grow our business and strengthen our partnerships with existing top enterprise clients. This is an opportunity to join a growing company of talented and committed individuals, unified in the common goal of exceeding our client’s expectations.

Our Values

At Elemica, we believe that embodying our values is essential for all team members. These qualities show up in our interactions with each other, our clients, and our collective community:

• Curiosity – we delight in the discovery of new challenges and feel compelled to solve them
• Integrity – We are relatable and trustworthy; steadfast in our commitment to our colleagues, clients, and partners
• Accountability – We show up and deliver measurable, meaningful business value. Consistently.
• Passion – We have a shared enthusiasm for transforming our clients’ supply chain

What’s In It For You?

• Competitive Compensation Packages including Bonus Program

• Hybrid Work Locations & Flexible Work Schedule

• Attractive Health Insurance & Pension Plan Offerings

• Global EAP Program

• Company Discounts

• Generous Employee Referral Program

• Bike Leasing/By-a-Bike/Cycle-to-Work Offerings

• Benefits-in-kind/Wellness Stipends

• Rewards & Recognition including Years of Service Awards

• Quarterly Employee Engagement Events

• Fun Work Environment

Responsibilities & Objectives

The Elemica Business Analyst is integral to our success and serve as trusted, dedicated advisor to our loyal clients, helping them to achieve success. Key to this role is being able to engage customers (both internal and external), articulate value, and effectively communicate the Elemica story of innovating and digitizing supply chain connectivity. The business analyst must be highly analytical and be hands-on and detail oriented.

What You’ll Do

The Elemica Business Analyst supports three primary functions: Project Coordination, Business Analysis, and Quality Assurance.

On large logistics projects, you will work with a Project Manager and other Business Analysts on new client implementations, EDI carrier integrations and configurations of the Transportation Management System for our clients.

• Project Coordination:
  • Work with the Project Manager to support the requirements gathering process for the implementation of the logistics focused solutions.
  • Assist in defining requirements/proposed solution, project scope, tasks, efforts and timelines to support trading partner implementation
  • Identify and mitigate issues and risks throughout the project lifecycle
• Business Analysis/Mapping Function:
  • Assess the customer’s and logistic service providers business and technical messaging requirements and confirm their compatibility with the Elemica supported solutions.
  • Review the design of new business processes for the customer and their adequate integration into the industry standards and best practices.
  • Analyze the customer message formats, identify transformation requirements of their logistics service providers, and document the mapping requirements for the mapping and config team.
  • Configure Elemica logistics focussed solutions in the test and production environments
• Quality Assurance:
  • Testing and verifying quality of developed interface message output based on the requirements.
  • Coordination and assisting in the execution of client testing activities, such as
    • Assist in business scenario testing
    • Assist in end-to-end partner testing
  • Ensure the client and logistics service providers ability to transact on the Elemica network
  • Take an active role in troubleshooting technical problems discovered during the testing process and provide resolution internally and externally
• Work in a team of experienced Business Analysts
• As part of the Elemica Professional Services team, you will be driving continuous improvement efforts surrounding the processes and tools utilized in Elemica’s client onboarding process.

What You'll Need

• 2-5 years of work experience in supply chain and logistics.
• Strong analytical skills within the context of analyzing and mapping disparate data formats
• Familiarity/experience with one or more of the messaging formats used in B2B e-commerce: EDI (ANSI X12), EDIFACT, XML, SAP iDOCs, Flatfiles, etc.
• Experience in writing mapping documentation
• Understanding of SQL and using relational databases
• Experience with logistics and supply chain processes
• Exposure or experience with a Transportation Management System
• Exposure to internet security, networking issues and technologies
• Familiarity and/or experience with one or more of the communication protocols:
  • HTTPS, AS2, SFTP, IBM MQ, FTPS, ebMS, oFTP, etc.
• Ability to multi-task integration projects of varying degrees of complexity in a dynamic environment
• Knowledge and experience with MS Office and Atlassian JIRA
• Ability to understand industry standard interface specifications.
• Good communication skills and the ability to speak to a group of people.
• Fluently in English
• Desire to work with a collaborative global team with offices in the USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands, and India

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field of study.

Who We Are

Elemica offers a state–of–the–art supply chain execution platform and ecosystem network in client, supplier, and logistics orchestration, promoting new efficiency and profitability for leaner and more fully optimized supply chains. Elemica’s global clients achieve significant value from reduced cost of operations, faster process execution with fewer resources, removal of transactional barriers, and seamless information flow between systems, internal teams, and business partners. Our Go-to-Market team focuses on solutions for executive change agents including Procurement, Commercial, Logistics, CoE, and Digital leaders, CIOs and Supply Chain Officers.

It is the responsibility of all Elemica employees to ensure the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of Elemica systems and data and the data of our customers. Using best practices in these areas, all Elemica employees will observe a ‘security first’ approach to their daily responsibilities. All employees are accountable for securing their work devices, work areas, and communications in the execution of their daily duties.