Business Planning Analyst

Job Overview

Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide program planning support through data analyses.
• Work in compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Conduct research, business plan analyses and feasibility studies.
• Identify trends and develop recommendations for issues of basic complexity.
• May provide support for projects and operations including, but not limited to, analysis, reporting, market research, budget forecasting and scheduling.
• May conduct risk, resource, cost-benefit, variance, impact and/or other analyses of basic complexity.
• May contribute to the development of metrics for performance of business unit, organization, initiatives, program/project, and/or business operations.
• May monitor and report on performance.
• May support management or senior analysts in the development of modeling and reporting tools or other systems for monitoring and analyzing performance or data integrity.
• May coordinate certain operational support activities on behalf of business unit such as business development, human resources, administration, budget management, business information systems, logistics and contracts.

Program Analysis

• Integrates performance data from multiple sources, including Salesforce, to enable business units to quickly and accurately assess programs and make immediate data-driven adjustments in strategies and tactics.
• Provides analysis of current and potential strategies leveraged by business units.
• Analyze data quality, trends, and performance metrics by designing reports and dashboards to extract insights, identify anomalies, and support data-driven decision-making.
• Leverage data mining and analytical techniques to identify patterns, correlations, and key business events that inform process improvements, operational efficiencies, and strategic initiatives.

Operational Reporting

• Acts as a point of contact to various Training Services business units for standardized reports demonstrating results, analyses, and forecasts.
• Tracks key metrics and measurements for program performance.
• Runs, maintains, analyzes, documents and communicates key daily, weekly and monthly performance metrics.
• Analyzes data to identify trends week over week and year-over-year in order to make recommendations to business units.
• Collaborates with a cross-functional team to scout new projects and report requests to ensure consistent reporting that meets business needs and focus on efficiency.
• Provides business recommendations through ad-hoc data retrieval and analysis from data management systems.
• Identifies and addresses reporting issues.
• Creates presentations that are succinct, professional and well-researched.
• Documents all analyses assumptions, procedures, results and proposes solutions in a manner appropriate for both executive and management review.

Pay Information

The salary range for this position is $51,696-$68,900. Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. This job will be posted for a minimum of five business days and extended if the applicant pool needs to be expanded.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience: Minimum 1 year of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Skills & Abilities: Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and within a team environment. Professional written and verbal communication. Strong proficiency of MS Excel (vlookups, pivot tables/charts a must), Word, and PowerPoint. Ability to capture and document business and reporting requirements from multiple sources. Ability to support simultaneous data analysis requests of varying size and scope. Ability to run and maintain complex models and databases that perform analysis, organize data and create reports from various sources. Ability to manage multiple data analysis projects simultaneously. Experience maintaining databases, analyzing data, and creating reports. Strong presentation and communication skills. Knowledge of Microsoft Access, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or Alteryx preferred.

Benefits

For You As a mission-based organization, we believe our team needs great support to do great work. Our comprehensive package includes: Medical, Dental Vision plans Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts PTO: Starting at 15 days a year; based on type of job and tenure Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays 401K with up to 6% match Paid Family Leave Employee Assistance Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term Service Awards and recognition