Business Operations Analyst Associate at Medline Industries, Inc. in Northfield, Illinois

Job Description:

This position is a multi-faceted analytical role within the Distributed Products Division. Primarily, this role is charged with researching and resolving vendor rebate disputes, with an added emphasis on identifying opportunities for efficiency improvement and cost savings across the division. This will be achieved through a detailed review of vendor rebate dispute files, a thorough understanding and commitment to internal processes, and an eye for identifying areas of opportunity.

• Responsible for research, analysis, reporting and optimization of the division's vendor rebates.


• Collaborate with vendors, sales reps, group purchasing organizations, and other stakeholders, in order to identify issues, determine financially responsible party and disposition rebate disputes.


• Participate in root cause analysis to recommend best practices to the business as well as our participating vendor partners.


• Lead sessions with vendors to elicit business requirements and build/maintain the distributor/vendor partnership.


• Conduct detailed investigations into various issues that may affect rebates, including but not limited to, customer identification, contracted customer eligibility lists, contracted item pricing, and Medline acquisition costs.


• Work cross-functionally to identify improvements which decrease risk and improve efficiency.


• Ability to operate well under pressure and independently manage workload to maintain strict deadlines.

Education

• Bachelor's degree.

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, formulas, data manipulation, VLOOKUP, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling)
• Advanced quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills and demonstrated ability to analyze reports to identify problems and the root cause of variances and develop suggested corrective action.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Mathematics or Applied Statistics.

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: designing and creating simple queries, modifying data types, adding dates, working with required fields and/or creating labels).
• SAP knowledge.
• Customer service experience.