On - Senior Specialist – Business Ops Analyst, EMEA - Zürich

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Operations

In short

We are looking for a Senior Business Operations Analyst, EMEA to join our Operations team and play a key role in strengthening our position as the most customer-centric sports brand in the market. This is a high-impact opportunity for a seasoned professional who excels at navigating complex business challenges and driving operational excellence at scale.

As a senior member of the team, you will operate with a high level of autonomy—owning strategic initiatives end to end and collaborating cross-functionally with teams including Demand Planning, Logistics, Global Supply Chain, and Finance to achieve your objectives. You’ll be responsible for transforming large volumes of qualitative and quantitative data into actionable insights, identifying key performance drivers, and recommending improvements that enhance the visibility and impact of our Operational KPIs.

This role calls for a strategic thinker with strong business acumen, advanced analytical skills, and a hands-on mindset. You’ll work independently while engaging closely with stakeholders across the organization to ensure operational priorities align with our broader business goals.

Your mission

– Create reports and dashboards to communicate key performance metrics and insights to stakeholders, enabling data-driven decision making.
– Understanding of SQL to query databases for investigation, validate data accuracy, or build datasets for operational analysis and reporting.
– Provide valuable data-driven insights and perform ad-hoc analysis to support day-to-day decision making within the Ops team.
– Maintain Regional Operations KPIs and perform root cause analysis to identify business challenges and opportunities.
– Drive new analytical initiatives and projects aimed at improving organizational efficiency in line with overall business strategy.
– Identify, support, and lead projects aimed at scaling up the way the organization leverages on data, insights, and intelligence
– Consolidate data from various internal and/or external sources and carry out further analysis.
– Master data maintenance, reporting, and ensuring data quality control.
– Validating and verifying the accuracy of data, identifying and rectifying errors or inconsistencies.
– Prepare and present business cases and scenario analyses to support key stakeholders and senior leadership in decision making.
– Assist with strengthening the performance management strategy by creating full visibility to our core metrics.

Your story

– Minimum of 5 years of experience in Logistics & Operations data analytics
– Experience in KPI development and deployment is a must
– Expert with data visualization tools, such as Tableau, PowerBI (experience with Looker a plus)
– Knowledge of programming languages like VBA, Python, SQL, and/or R
– Higher education preferred in data analytics, business analytics or business related
– Advanced knowledge of business intelligence, data analysis and visualization.
– Comfortable with Microsoft Office, especially Excel; experience with D365 is a plus
– Proven project management abilities and effective stakeholder communication
– Proactive mindset, constantly seeking opportunities for improvement and challenging the status quo
– Self-motivated and action-oriented with a strong sense of initiative
– Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels
– Adaptable to a lean, fast-paced, and rapidly growing organization
– Entrepreneurial mindset, embracing continuous optimization and innovation
– Fluent in English

Meet the team

Join us as part of the forward-thinking and action-oriented Operations Team EMEA aiming to be both the backbone and the advanced navigator of our speedboat. We constantly strive to challenge the status quo, to handle growth, and to shape tomorrow’s best practices by thinking differently, acting cross-functionally, and making use of the latest technology.