Overview

SUMMARY

As an employee at MEC, you need to be passionate about driving day to day results through data consolidation, cleansing, analysis and providing recommendations to sustain and improve profitable customer and product business mix. This position will support the sales commercial operations team and overall MEC financial landscape thru analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and recommendations. The goal of this position will be to add value and standardize the ad hoc part pricing and profitability business analysis and evolve MEC’s internal account review process across all divisions and ERP systems. This is an opportunity that will provide great breadth and width of functional experience and networking across the organization (sales, purchasing, operations, cost estimating, IT). This position covers many aspects of data analysis and must be flexible relative to the business environment and need. This Individual must be driven with high energy, attitude, interpersonal skills and self-motivation to succeed.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as deemed necessary.

• Execution of deep dive customer profitability account reviews per defined schedule for metal market adjustments, LTA productivity cost downs, annual margin reviews for production and OES service

• Ability to pull data and make ad hoc part and customer profitability analysis, trends and pricing recovery recommendations. Goal will be to standardize and implement process and reporting.
• Creating and distributing reports to quantify price change impact to validate implementation and support forecasting. Work with Accounts Receivable on short pay reconciliation and inside sales.
• Working with IT and purchasing to correlate purchase price and sell price adjustment recommendations for metal market based on purchasing programs
• Working with IT and developing systems / processes to query critical sales / margin / quote / cost data
• Integration and automation of data into an Account Review template and overall improvement of Power BI reports.
• Creating customer one-time payment (OTP) files for retro pay
• Creating customer pricing copies for sales team and internal files with annual impact for reporting
• Support validating customer blanket contracts received for price implementation with inside sales
• Networking with sales, operations, finance to deep dive costs and recommended continuous improvement actions in a standardized process.
• Analyzes, reports, and communicates in a simplistic way variance between actual, forecast and budget.
• Support development of monthly forecast / SIOP and annual budget process.
• Provides guidance were requested and responds to financial questions/concerns to meet business needs of both internal and external stakeholders.

COMPETENCIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Analytical: Synthesizes complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data; Designs work flows and procedures.

Problem Solving: Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Works well in group problem solving situations; Uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.

Project Management:  Develops project plans; Coordinates projects; Communicates changes and progress; Completes projects on time and budget; Manages project team activities.

Interpersonal Skills: Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Maintains confidentiality; Listens to others without interrupting; Keeps emotions under control; Remains open to others' ideas and tries new things.

Oral Communication:  Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions; Demonstrates group presentation skills; Participates in meetings.

Written Communication: Writes clearly and informatively; Edits work for spelling and grammar; Varies writing style to meet needs; Presents numerical data effectively; Able to read and interpret written information.

Teamwork:  Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.

Business Acumen: Understands business implications of decisions; Displays orientation to profitability; Demonstrates knowledge of market and competition; Aligns work with strategic goals.

Cost Consciousness: Works within approved budget; Develops and implements cost saving measures; Contributes to profits and revenue ; Conserves organizational resources.

Ethics: Treats people with respect; Keeps commitments; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.

Strategic Thinking: Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; Understands organization's strengths & weaknesses; Analyzes market and competition; Identifies external threats and opportunities; Adapts strategy to changing conditions.

Judgment: Displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sound and accurate judgment; Supports and explains reasoning for decisions; Includes appropriate people in decision-making process; Makes timely decisions.

Motivation: Sets and achieves challenging goals; Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; Measures self against standard of excellence; Takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.

Planning/Organizing: Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; Plans for additional resources; Sets goals and objectives; Organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; Develops realistic action plans.

Professionalism: Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through on commitments.

Dependability: Follows instructions and responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Initiative: Volunteers readily; Undertakes self-development activities; Seeks increased responsibilities; Takes independent actions and calculated risks; Looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; Asks for and offers help when needed.

Attendance/Punctuality: Is consistently at work and on time; ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent.

Organizational Support: Follows policies and procedures; supports organization’s goals and values.

Safety/Security: Observes safety and security procedures; determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly; maintains a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers and supervisors.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Sitting, standing, walking, traverse steps, bending, reaching, visual acuity sufficient to work closely on a computer screen, occasional lifting up to 50 lbs. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.