Basel Anz

• Acting as the Product Owner and main contact for appointed business stakeholders and champions, ensuring BI solutions meet business needs and expectations.
• Driving revisions of workflows and internal team processes to enhance our team’s delivery quality and performance.
• Leading weekly planning and alignment sessions with stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and guide project execution.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with stakeholders and BI developers to design and deliver effective, user-focused reporting and analytics solutions.
• Gathering, refining, and translating business requirements into functional specifications and actionable work packages for the development team.
• Owning the end-to-end delivery process, including solution validation, stakeholder communication, and user acceptance testing to ensure solution quality and alignment.
• Providing ongoing BI support to stakeholders, acting as a domain expert and ensuring the continuous improvement of delivered solutions.

End to end business intelligence:

• Managing all business intelligence initiatives within the purchasing department to drive data-driven decision-making and process improvements.
• Analyzing complex business requirements and developing 25+ Power BI reports delivering descriptive and prescriptive insights, with several reports scaled for adoption across the entire organization.
• Ensuring data quality by defining and tracking key data KPIs through Power BI dashboards, and coordinating corrective actions and data cleansing efforts with team leads.
• Designing and implementing automated solutions for repetitive tasks using stored procedures, VBA macros, Power Automate, and Windows Task Scheduler to improve operational efficiency.
• Developing report-embedded instructional videos and conducting training sessions to support internal users in effectively utilizing various Power BI reports.

Systems key user:

• Translating the department's systems requirements into improvements, collaborating with other divisions to agree on solutions, and overseeing implementation and testing.
• Serving as key user and primary support for 25+ end users across all systems.
• Acting as purchasing department representative and single point of contact towards inter & intra divisional purchase, IT, and engineering teams.
• Coordinating and delivering training sessions for purchase department staff and vendors on all relevant systems.
• Updating and consolidating business manuals and documentation to maintain a single, accurate source of truth.

• Leading end-to-end batch size optimization across all supply chain plants while identifying and resolving scheduling inefficiencies in collaboration with production teams.
• Evaluating, tracking, and forecasting cost savings from batch size optimization and consolidation initiatives throughout their lifecycle.
• Developing advanced models to visualize impacts of inter-company projects and consolidations on product portfolio evolution and volume shifts across multiple dimensions.

• Evaluating automation projects and building business cases based on order data analysis to optimize warehouse processes.
• Developing and validating testing scenarios, training end users on new SOPs, and coordinating cross-functional teams for successful project launches.
• Leading Kaizen projects and assisting in rolling & controlling 5S/Safety/Lean waves across warehouses to meet productivity and safety targets.
• Designing and improving workstations and packing zones for both current & new clients, while collaborating with operations to automate repetitive tasks and reports.

Co-delivered the highest-graded graduation project of the year, proposing the automation of warehouse processes using vertical lift modules to achieve:

• €600K annual savings by consolidating 7 European warehouses into 1, reducing storage footprint by 99%, picker walking by 90%, while maintaining or improving EU service levels.