Supply Chain Data Analyst at Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream

Are you looking to catapult your career by driving high-impact transformation with household brands? Do you crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced and engaging growth assignment working with incredible people from across the globe?

At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of accelerated growth as part of Froneri – a global pure-play ice cream leader. With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love such as Häagen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer’s/Edy’s, Skinny Cow, OREO, Outshine and Frollies, and the backing and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have the winning recipe.

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, the Bay Area’s hub for up-and-coming food trends, our DGIC team across our offices and factories is raising the bar on all things ice cream. Our growth has been tremendous in the past few years – moving from being #2 manufacturer in market to being #1 in 2024. The brands have strong investments in marketing support, quality improvements and exciting line extensions and innovation. DGIC has also been recognized by retail partners as the top manufacturer partner, winning the #1 position in the prestigious Advantage Award in 2024.

At DGIC, we don’t just hire for roles, we grow future business leaders. Here, everyone is encouraged to think like a general manager. That means owning your piece of the business, making bold decisions, and seeing the big picture. What makes us unique? You won’t just stay in your lane, you’ll get hands-on exposure to everything from Sales, Marketing and operations to Finance and Supply Chain. It’s like getting an MBA on the job (but with way more ice cream). If you’re curious, driven, and ready to learn a lot about a lot, this is the place to stretch your skills and fast-track your career.

Unleash your potential at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have in store for you!

What to expect from Dreyers

At the heart of our culture are four core values that guide our actions and define how we work together. We Take Ownership by staying committed from start to finish, making thoughtful decisions, and focusing our efforts on initiatives that drive growth, efficiency, and sustainability. We Do What Is Right by prioritizing transparency, setting clear roles and responsibilities, and speaking up when something doesn’t align with our values. We Seek to Improve through continuous innovation, embracing feedback, and learning from both our successes and setbacks. And We Are Better Together by making decisions that benefit the whole organization, fostering inclusion through diverse perspectives, and treating everyone with fairness and respect. These values are not just ideals—they are the behaviors we live by every day.

Main Purpose of Job

We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive Supply Chain Analyst to join our Supply Chain Organization. The ideal candidate will focus on identifying opportunities for value creation, process improvement, risk mitigation, and performance optimization across supply chain operations. This role involves conducting comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analyses related to production planning, stock deployment, logistics, and working capital activities, including cost-benefit analysis, financial forecasting, and supply chain planning. Additionally, the analyst will take the lead in strategizing and communicating improvement initiatives, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to drive successful project implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data to identify cost-saving opportunities
• Propose and implement process improvements to enhance data analysis, the efficiency and effectiveness of Supply Chain activities
• Dashboards/Reports: Create, maintain, improve and publish various performance dashboards, including Logistic KPIs, for management reporting and financial reviews
• Data Management: Partner with various stakeholders to ensure data is managed and captured adequately to support data analysis
• Data analysis and Modeling: Analyze large datasets, including historical data (production plan, stock movements, sales forecast and actuals), to identify patterns, correlations, and key drivers of cost impacts, propose adequate improvements and manage the implementation end to end.
• Collaborate actively in the Anaplan implementation projects from Business case build up to, implementation, testing and support post Go-Live
• Collaborate daily with the deployment team, find room for improvements and ensure service is kept at the highest level while write off and logistic costs are at the lowest.

Key Measurables

• Quality of the weekly Logistic KPI management
• Meeting with Supply Chain Planning weekly
• Meeting with Deployment team daily
• Number of Initiatives implemented, and Savings generated
• Success of new Anaplan modules implementation
• Service level reaching 98.5+

Qualifications

• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights to drive decisions.
• Background in data analysis, supply chain, finance, sales or operations
• Excellent analytical, financial and technical project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, capable of building relationships globally both internally and externally.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exemplary multitasking and organizational skills.
• Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, VBA, and Power Query
• Experience with JDE or Anaplan is a plus

The pay scale for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The pay range for prospective employees in this role is between $80,000 and $90,000 per year.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.