Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

**This position may be domiciled in The Woodlands, TX; New Orleans, LA; Jackson, MS; or Little Rock, AR**

**This position will be filled as a Business Analyst Senior, Senior Lead, or Senior Staff and the level will be dependent on experience and qualifications.**

Job Summary/Purpose

The Business Analyst (Business Intelligence) reports to the Manager, Supply Chain Applications & Insights, and often works closely with the Chief Supply Officer and his/her team to help drive continual improvements across Entergy and within Entergy Supply Chain.

Performance data must be transparent, deliver insight and underpin forward looking business decisions so that Entergy can grow a world class energy business. To support this goal the position will be responsible to process timely, relevant, and accurate data along with developing and implementing an enterprise-wide supply chain performance planning, measurement, and management framework.

Key Responsibilities

• At all times put safety first, actively promote safety in both the office environment and on-site/off-site visits at Entergy or supplier sites.
• Architect, build and publish Supply Chain metrics, analytics, and reporting for inclusion in Supply Chain and business communications.
• Extract and aggregate data sets from various sources, including both databases and flat files.
• Apply data analytics practices and the right tools (e.g. Power BI, Python, SQL, dbt, Airflow, PySpark, AWS).
• Gather requirements, formulate metrics and synthesize analytics into dashboard and reports.
• Present data and information, in technical and business terms, with a compelling final product that tells a story to management.
• Analyze data sources, taxonomies and methodologies regularly to ensure data integrity from all relevant data sources.
• Identify statistically significant patterns, correlations, and compelling questions raised by such analysis.
• Effectively manage relationships and can create rapport with others. Anticipate customer/stakeholder needs and accept ownership.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum education required of the position

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business-related field required or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced degree in a related specialty is preferred.

Minimum experience required of the position

• Senior Analyst: At least 6+ years of professional experience with Bachelor’s Degree; 10+ years without degree
• Senior Lead Analyst: At least 8+ years of professional experience with Bachelor’s Degree; 12+ years without degree
• Senior Staff Analyst: At least 10+ years of professional experience with Bachelor’s Degree; 14+ years without degree

Desired knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position

Technical

• Experience with SQL, Python, GitLab
• Experience with Power BI or other Business Intelligence tools
• Mastery in gathering requirements, formulate metrics and convert data analysis into tangible reporting products.
• Mastery in report design, data visualization and presentation techniques.
• Experience in application of data management, control and data mining applications and systems.
• Deep level proficiency at providing data driven insights and key recommendations on findings.
• Deep proficiency at sharing key insights with department staff and analytics team to promote continuous learning.
• Partners with executives to define key findings and establish actions plans.
• Has knowledge and understanding of existing and evolving Supply Chain systems.
• Identifies the need for new systems and offers strategic input on the utilization of current systems.

Professional

• Deep expertise to advise on the application of project management principles to ensure systematic, thorough completion of assignments, identifying critical pathways and risks to delivery.
• Deep expertise leading the development of data/information analyses to assist the business in decision making; provide business insights and data trends through detailed reports.
• Ability to communicate autonomously with Supply Chain stakeholders, including executive level, delivering key messages concisely, supported by relevant data; influencing skills to develop best outcomes.
• Continually seeks sources of business intelligence on company imperatives, industry trends and emerging capabilities that will drive a world-class supply chain.
• Deep proficiency at understanding and recognizing opportunities for change and creating strategies. Leads organization through the preparation and execution. Is at the forefront of aligning change with organizational impact.
• Deep proficiency at building extensive relationships and effective networks with all stakeholders.
• Mastery in developing strategies to improve capabilities relative to business objectives and impactful industry trends.
• Deep understanding of change management relative to reporting and analytics for the business.

Leadership

• Decisive leadership abilities, with the skill to influence others to action, and to successfully implement strategies and process improvements 
• Extensive knowledge of change management and continuous improvement methods, and the application to daily activities to drive performance improvement.
• Mastery at providing direction on appropriate change to enable business objectives and ensures consistent application across all initiatives and stakeholder interactions.
• Ability to communicate complex scenarios and data, clearly articulate the organization’s strategy, and translate organizational strategy into departmental strategies and plans
• Mastery at technical and professional coaching/mentoring on contract provisions, commercial analytics, etc., to project teams, other SC personnel and Entergy customers.
• Ability to lead others through ambiguity and support functional leadership of small teams.
• Capability to be the trusted advisor; leader/coach in identifying what is important to the customer base.

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Arkansas : Little Rock || Mississippi : Jackson || Texas : The Woodlands 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 116600
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information.  41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity and Pay Transparency.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment.  Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.