At Niagara, we're looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.

Consider applying here, if you want to:

• Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.
• Develop lasting relationships with great people.
• Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.

The IT Sr. Functional Analyst for Beverage is responsible for liaising with Beverage Program management and Beverage Operations teams to manage the pipeline of IT Systems needs and maintain the alignment between the business and IT. This role is responsible for collaborating with IT teams to manage the Beverage business's IT systems' needs. This role is responsible for providing necessary guidance to the Beverage Program management team and Beverage Operations team on potential systems and technology-based solutions.

Essential Functions

• Ability to work with the business to understand and document requirements, determine solution approach, facilitate solution delivery to support business needs
• Analyze processes to identify opportunities both from process and systems side for efficiency gains, and cost reduction using various enterprise tools
• Ability to translate complex business needs into a design document and articulate the desired functionality and the test cases to the technical teams
• Basic knowledge of SQL and any other technical tools and concepts is desired
• Ability to document requirements, process flows, new functionality, and creation of SOP/training materials.
• Review system design approaches to ensure they fully meet the business requirements
• Trouble shooting systemic and operational system issues to define root cause and determine temporary/permanent solutions
• Interact with multiple departments including but not limited toSales, Program Management, Customer Service, Logistics/Transportation, Procurement, Planning, Production, Quality, Warehouse, Receiving and IT
• Produce key documents, both in written and presentation format
• Proficient computer skills (i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook, Visio, Excel)
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify system-based solutions for existing process gaps and facilitate a long-term sustainable solution
• Organize, schedule, and run meetings to identify process improvement opportunities and system needs
• Overall high degree of professionalism
• Project Management throughout a project lifecycle: including administration, planning, configuration, testing, training, implementation, support, and change management
• Write use cases, business rules, and other artifacts such as swim lane diagrams and activity flow diagrams to effectively articulate and represent business processes, desired outcomes, and requirements
• Ability to deliver effective and professional presentation to peers, management and other professionals
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects
• Ability to plan, track, escalate and deliver upon tasks and timelines assigned.
• Ability to take direction, learn processes/systems quickly and deliver results based on timeline.
• Ability to workin fast paced, dynamic environment collaboratively with a cross-functional team and manage minor project implementations
• Available for 24/7 support if it becomes necessary to support Production systems issues and outages and Project Cutover and Go-Live activities
• Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.
• List if any travel is required using percentage of time:
  • 25% - on average travels 1 week out of the month

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Enterprise Applications like Oracle with good knowledge of systems integrations | Expertise in any enterprise application is desired
• Knowledge of Master Data, Supply and Demand Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Order Management and Warehouse Management processes | Expertise in a few functions is desired
• Knowledge of data flow within an integrated ERP application suite and across different information systems | Expertise in IT Systems and tools is desired
• Experience in roles such as Business Systems Analyst, Engineering, Process Optimization, Program management, IT Information Systems Analyst is desired

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • 6 Years- Combined experience across FOOD/BEVERAGE OR CPG OR Process Manufacturing Enterprise Applications
  • 6 Years- Combined experience in functional roles partnering with Manufacturing business and/or IT
  • 6 Years- Combined experience delivering solutions and managing projects of varied sizes

*Experience may include a combination of work experience and education

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • 10 Years- Combined experience across FOOD/BEVERAGE OR CPG OR Process Manufacturing Enterprise Applications
  • 10 Years- Combined experience in functional roles partnering with Manufacturing business and/or IT
  • 10 Years- Combined experience delivering solutions and managing projects of varied sizes

*Experience may include a combination of work experience and education

Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, planning and organizational proficiency and good business judgment
• Excellent problem solver with analytical and critical thinking, ability to communicate and interact at executive and junior levels
• Strong team-oriented interpersonal skills including facilitation and the ability to effectively interface and work with a wide variety of people
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to provide detail documentation of a technology incident
• Is self-driven and must work independently

Education

• Minimum Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree, in Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Preferred:
  • Master's Degree, in Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial, Manufacturing or a related field or equivalent work experience

Typical Compensation Range

Benefits

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