Job Title: Trade Business Analyst
Location: Bay Area, CA
Duration: 9+ Months
Role Summary
The Trade Business Analyst supports trade compliance and supply chain decision-making by translating business needs into clear requirements, structured data inputs, and actionable insights. The role focuses on scenario analysis, governance, documentation, and cross-functional coordination to deliver approved business cases and trade program outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Trade Analytics & Decision Support
- Define problem statements, success metrics, and analysis plans for trade/logistics decisions.
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis on costs, volumes, trade lanes, and channels.
- Validate data quality, assumptions, and modeling outputs.
- Develop trade/network visualizations and executive summaries.
- Maintain reproducible analysis outputs and periodic data refreshes.
Requirements & Stakeholder Management
- Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and requirements gathering.
- Document assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and decisions with traceability.
- Translate business needs into prioritized requirements or user stories.
- Align with cross-functional partners (Trade Compliance, Legal, Finance, Ops, Network Design).
- Communicate status updates, risks, and recommendations clearly.
Program Governance & Documentation
- Manage run plans, milestones, RAID logs, and change control.
- Maintain version control of models, outputs, and documentation.
- Prepare standardized data request templates and assumption packs.
- Publish regular stakeholder updates and executive readouts.
Trade Operations & Process Support
- Track customs ruling requests and manage related documentation.
- Maintain product profiles, classifications, and compliance data.
- Support trade lane documentation and operational coordination.
- Assist tariff mitigation analysis, cost/benefit tracking, and forecasting inputs.
- Support process improvements, SOP updates, automation stabilization, and reporting.
Key Deliverables
- Requirements and assumptions documentation with stakeholder sign-off.
- Scenario analysis reports with risks, impacts, and recommendations.
- KPI dashboards, status reports, and standardized data packs.
- Maintained analysis repository and documentation.
- Updated product profiles, ruling trackers, SOPs, and monitoring reports.
Qualifications
- Experience in business analysis, trade compliance, logistics, or supply chain analytics.
- Strong requirements documentation, stakeholder alignment, and analytical skills.
- Experience with data analysis tools (Excel, SQL/BI tools, presentations).
- Ability to synthesize insights into concise executive summaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
