Your Job
We are seeking a Forest Business Analyst to support the analytical needs of Georgia-Pacific's Wood & Fiber Supply Organization. This role creates value by using data to help drive business results. In this role, the analyst will use data and communication to identify opportunities for process improvements and waste elimination. The analyst will then partner with key business areas to help directly impact the decision-making process. A successful candidate will be a self-starting individual that demonstrates innovation and a sense of urgency towards evaluating business opportunities. This role is based at our headquarters in Atlanta, GA.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific Wood and Fiber Supply (W&FS), LLC is key to ensuring that GP's 80+ mills maintain a constant flow of logs, wood fiber and chips. W&FS sources its wood from private lands owned by industrial, institutional, or individual landowners. This position will interact with Division VP, Region Managers, location procurement leaders, and the Division Analytics team.
What You Will Do
- Learning and understanding the Georgia-Pacific Wood & Fiber Supply commodity trading business
- Using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive advanced analytics, creating metrics, and sharing knowledge with decision makers
- Utilizing optimization software to drive strategic goals creating value for our business partners by attaining an optimal plan
- Driving collaborative discussions across the regions to gain and share knowledge and identify innovation opportunities
- Establishing and managing timelines, project priorities, and strategic initiatives
- Analyze operational performance providing insight for improvement opportunities
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- Three+ years' analytical or operations experience
- Microsoft Office experience including: Excel skills (creating formulas, using pivot tables, and manipulating spreadsheets), Word (creating and editing documents) and PowerPoint (creating and editing presentations)
- Experience with interpreting data, presenting information in a clear, concise format that a variety of audiences can understand, and compiling data in various analytical formats
What Will Put You Ahead
- MBA or Master's degree
- Five+ years' analytical or operations experience
- Experience working in the Forestry industry
- Experience as Financial Lead or Analyst, especially supporting a forest products organization
- Experience with creating metrics and measuring business performance
- Experience with data management & database design
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.