Description
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Job Description: Supply Chain Analyst – AI-Enabled Supply Continuity & Process Innovation
Position Overview
We are looking for a proactive Supply Chain Analyst who can navigate the tension between traditional supply assurance — supplier follow-up, delivery risk assessment, and expediting decisions — and the new frontier of AI-powered process innovation. This role is designed for someone who can partner with IT and Analytics teams to co-create intelligent automations while simultaneously building their own lightweight AI tools (using Microsoft Copilot and Office 365) to reduce manual effort, improve decision speed, and democratize AI capability across the supply chain function.

Responsibilities
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Key Responsibilities




- Supplier Delivery Follow-Up & Line Risk Management – Own day-to-day follow-up with suppliers on delivery commitments; proactively identify at-risk orders using AI-generated alerts and predictive flags, and make real-time expediting decisions (air freight, alternate sourcing, buffer stock) to prevent line stoppages.
- AI-Augmented Risk Assessment & Escalation – Leverage AI/ML-based scoring (powered by models built in collaboration with Analytics or prototyped via Copilot/Python) to quantify supplier risk across dimensions like lead time vulnerability, past reliability, and financial health, enabling prioritized escalation.
- Data-Driven Expedite Decisioning – Use predictive scenario modeling and AI-generated recommendations to determine when expediting is truly necessary, balancing premium cost against production downtime risk, with transparent reasoning documented for audit trails.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration with IT & Analytics – Act as the supply chain subject matter expert embedded in cross-funct

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