Business Analyst - Supplier Connectivity - Costco Travel

About the role

Costco Travel IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Responsibilities

• Possesses product knowledge and process improvement skills, with a demonstrated ability to effectively propose solutions.
• Defines and communicates requirements, risks, and issues that may require action.
• Identifies, builds, and manages stakeholder relationships (i.e., business partners, users, vendors, customers, project team members, and management leaders).
• Assists the development team with the translation of business requirements into functional or non-functional specifications.
• Builds and maintains reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor and analyze the performance of our vendors and systems.
• Prepares materials in a clear, explicit, and presentable format to report out to stakeholders.
• Develops individual and team business analysis plans, to manage activities, tasks, deliverables, and schedules.
• Builds solutions/workflows to identify errors or exceptions with the vendor connection and coordinates with appropriate teams to correct the issue and prevent future occurrences.
• Identifies opportunities for streamlining and increasing effectiveness through continuous process improvement.
• Works with business, vendors, and technology groups to coordinate testing and implementations.
• Participates in planning sessions to outline implementation requirements prior to deployment.
• Provides first-level support for problems and issues as it relates to vendor connections.
• Conducts ad-hoc reporting and analysis that drive high-impact business results.
• Identifies and recommends new vendor partners based on the needs of the business.
• Works independently and manages multiple projects and workflows simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Assists with other assigned special projects.