Senior Data Analyst/Specialist (Access) (119443-563)

Description The Senior Data Analyst will work directly with data integrity of product data for Premier Inc. This is a permanent position located in Charlotte, NC. This person will be hands-on with the data, analyzing, correct errors, trend, etc. This person is responsible for contributing to the success of Supply chain Advisor, Spend Manager, and Market Basket initiatives by ensuring product information is available to the related customers per expectations; complete, timely, accurate and with relevance. Issue resolution procedures to ensure product data availability. This includes working with Premier's Business Units, Data Acquisition team, Data Quality and Integration team, third party data providers, and vendors to define and execute streamlined processes for the timely and accurate processing of data.



Major Accountabilities

Lead process and projects relating to product data loading and integration among internal and external partner systems.

Investigate and resolve product data quality and integrity issues within PIM and with PIM subscribing systems; maintain and update issue logs, monitor, evaluate trends, and formulate corrective actions.

Summarize and communicate outcomes of investigations in reports and write specifications for the elimination of problems.

Ensure processes and systems are in place to load product data accurately and timely.

Serve as Product Information team liaison and subject matter expert to Data Quality and Integration, Application Development and PIM subscribing system teams

Provide business requirements to project teams and/or developers

Perform user acceptance testing by following specific application procedural documentation to ensure expected results are achieved and/or to document and fix areas not providing expected outcomes

Develop standard operating procedure documentation and training materials by mapping new and enhanced procedural steps and/or process flows to ensure processes and systems are effectively implemented.

Recommend Improvements - provide concept design and supporting documentation.

Develop and implement key operational and quality metrics

Develop ad-hoc and standard queries and reports

Maintain Data Dictionaries and mappings

Assist with: training staff, interviewing, assigning work, and determining methods for work

 Required Skills


A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) in Business, Process Management, Project Management, Information Systems, Health care, or related area.

Microsoft Office Products, Relational Databases such as MS Access, Oracle SQL (SQL Navigator, Toad)

Importing/Exporting data to and from MS Access tables

Database queries in Access and/or Oracle



Knowledge and Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Experience defining customer and functional requirements

Ability to comprehend business process integration

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Project Management orientation; Strong focus on process management

Good presentation skills

Customer focused

Detail oriented

Strong facilitator

Works independently

Able to work in a cross functional environment; Works well in unstructured environment with changing priorities

Must be able to handle multiple priorities