Business Systems Analyst

The role

You will manage supply chain tools, business processes, and reporting to help plan materials, work with suppliers, and scale production. You will own supply chain business requirements, configurations, data maintenance, and user adoption.

What you will do

• Own configuration, maintenance, and improvement of supply chain systems and business processes.
• Ensure accuracy of MRP inputs and planning workflows.
• Replace manual data maintenance with automated workflows and validation checks.
• Manage master part data processes.
• Improve purchasing workflows from requisition through closure.
• Develop material liability reporting.
• Build unit cost tracking and spend forecasts.
• Own CapEx tracking workflows.
• Coordinate EDI and API integrations with suppliers and internal technical teams.
• Partner with Quality to improve QMS workflows.

Required qualifications

• Experience owning or improving supply chain business systems and operational processes in a manufacturing environment.
• Practical understanding of MRP and how demand, bills of material, inventory, purchase orders, lead times, and master part data affect planning outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with purchasing and supplier collaboration workflows.
• Ability to independently query, join, validate, and analyze operational data and build dashboards.
• Ability to trace data across systems, investigate discrepancies, and establish metric definitions and validation rules.
• Experience configuring applications, gathering requirements, testing changes, and rolling out process improvements.
• Ability to understand operational and financial tradeoffs involving capacity, material liability, unit costs, spend forecasts, and capital purchases.
• Clear communication and strong documentation.
• Ownership and follow-through through implementation and maintenance.
• Experience supporting aerospace, robotics, hardware, or other manufacturing environments with complex parts and supplier networks.

Nice to have

• Python for prototyping planning models and statistical analyses
• SQL for investigating and validating operational data
• Executive-level communication and presentation
• Strong systems thinking and ability to create KPIs

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Overtime pay
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods.