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About the Role
The Demand Analyst supports the planning team by running recurring reports, shortage analyses, and data uploads to ensure demand, supply, and customer commitments are aligned. This role involves owning the orders application, tracking key performance metrics, and communicating delivery commitment changes to customers. The successful candidate will transform raw ERP and planning data into actionable analysis, identifying relevant data, interpreting it, and communicating clear conclusions to planners, buyers, and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Prepare, run, and distribute daily planning and order files, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Execute weekly shortage analyses and associated files, communicate findings to planners and stakeholders, and escalate critical shortages.
- Upload and maintain forecast data in the planning system.
- Log, track, and report on departmental KPIs.
- Assist in updating recommit dates and communicating them to customers.
- Serve as the owner and primary administrator of the orders app, including troubleshooting, data integrity, and user support.
- Perform ad hoc data analysis in support of supply chain and demand planning, including the extraction, reconciliation, and analysis of large data sets.
- Determine which data is required to address a business question and develop the analysis needed to reach a well-supported recommendation.
- Perform general administrative tasks in support of the planning team.
- Assist with work order maintenance (e.g., updating dates and quantities, closing or adjusting orders) as business needs require.
Requirements
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, lookups (XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH), complex formulas, data cleanup, and large data sets.
- Strong critical thinking skills, including the ability to identify the narrative within a data set, work backward from the desired outcome, and determine which data must be extracted to achieve it.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in recurring, deadline-driven work.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple recurring tasks.
Skills
- Excel
- Pivot tables
- Lookups (XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH)
- Complex formulas
- Data cleanup
- Large data sets
- Macro/VBA (asset)
- Critical thinking
- Data analysis
- ERP/MRP systems (familiarity)
- KPI tracking/reporting (experience)
- Power Query (exposure)
- Power BI (exposure)
- SQL (exposure)
- Shortages
- Recommits
- Work order processes
- Manufacturing environment experience
Location
- Syracuse, NY
Work Type
- Temporary
Experience Level
- Entry-level (implied by focus on building a career and ideal candidate profile)
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in supply chain, business, or a related field
- APICS/ASCM certification, or interest in pursuing certification
About the Company
- At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.
- We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
- Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
- We have a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.
Equal Opportunity
- Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
- Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.