Business Analyst - Supply Chain Planning

About the role

Are you passionate about turning complex supply chain challenges into scalable, value-driven solutions? In this role, you will act as the critical link between business stakeholders and product delivery, ensuring that supply chain planning capabilities are well understood, well defined, and effectively translated into impactful solutions. You will work closely with the Product Manager and Product Owner to shape the planning roadmap, refine business needs into actionable user stories, and ensure that solutions deliver real operational value across the organization. Beyond analysis, this is a hands-on role where you stay close to the supply chain reality, actively engaging with business users and continuously improving processes, tools, and ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into clear, structured requirements, user stories, and functional specifications
• Collaborate with Product Manager and Product Owner to define, prioritize, and refine the supply chain planning roadmap
• Partner closely with Business Units to understand operational needs and ensure solutions deliver measurable business value
• Be hands-on in the supply chain planning landscape, supporting day-to-day system understanding, issue resolution, and process flow validation
• Develop and deliver training sessions to ensure strong user adoption of new tools, processes, and planning capabilities
• Identify improvement opportunities across processes, systems, and ways of working, including automation and digital enhancements
• Who are you
• What you know
• This role requires strong grounding in supply chain planning combined with the ability to translate business needs into actionable solutions.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in supply chain planning, ideally in a senior or lead analyst role
• Strong understanding of supply chain planning concepts, methodologies, and end-to-end processes
• Proven ability to translate complex business needs into structured requirements and user stories
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to break down complex problems into actionable insights
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across business and technical teams
• Familiarity with planning tools such as Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, or SO99+
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
• English is required (written and spoken)
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Planning
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate)
• Any additional Nordic language is an advantage
• For more information, please contact
• Jörgen Siversson, Manager Solution and Information Architecture at Jorgen.Siversson@alfalaval.com or Raquel Herndon, Talent Acquisition Partner at raquel.herndon@alfalaval.com
• For union information in Lund, please contact:
• Johan Ranhög, Akademikerna, johan.ranhog@alfalaval.com
• Monica Anderberg, Unionen, monica.anderberg@alfalaval.com
• Stefan Sandell, Ledarna, stefan.sandell@alfalaval.com
• For union information in Stockholm, please contact
• Axel Schäring, Akademikerna, axel.scharing@alfalaval.com
• Anders Jansson, Unionen, anders.jansson@alfalaval.com
• We are conducting a continuous review of received applications.
• We do not accept applications via email, due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Please send your application no later than June 14th, 2026 . We will remove the job advert from our website as soon as we have found the right candidate, so don't wait too long!
• At Alfa Laval, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive and dynamic workplace that values diverse perspectives and experiences. While we typically welcome applicants from al

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Every day, we get opportunities to make a positive impact - on our colleagues, partners, customers, and society. Together, we're pioneering the solutions of the future and unlocking the full potential of precious resources. Trusted to act on initiative, we challenge conventional thinking to develop world-leading technologies that inspire progress in vital areas, including energy, food, water, and shipping. As we push forward, the innovative, open spirit that fuels our 140-year-old start-up culture and rapid growth also drives our personal growth. So, as we shape a more resourceful, less wasteful world, we build our careers too.

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