AFL manufactures industry-leading fiber optic cable, connectivity and accessories and provides engineering and installation services for some of the largest telecom customers in the world. Our company was founded in 1984 with a single fiber optic cable and today, we manufacture thousands of products, generate an excess of $4B in revenue, and employ approximately 12,000 associates worldwide. At AFL, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset. We hire and train each individual, investing in them to ensure success in their careers. With a commitment to professional development and growth, let us connect you to your next career opportunity.
What We Offer:
- A hybrid in office schedule for qualifying employees
- Flexible time off policy
- 401K Company match (up to 4% - dollar for dollar)
- Professional development, training, and tuition reimbursement programs
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance policy options
- Opportunities for career advancement with an industry leading company!
We are seeking a Global ITP Implementation Analyst to join our Integrated Tactical Planning team at our corporate office in Duncan, SC. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Commercial, Client Success, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Scheduling, Purchasing, Operations, Finance, Data Governance, IT, and BI. The analyst must also be able to work independently, act as a change agent, and challenge manual ways of working by demonstrating better approaches and helping teams adopt AI-enabled processes. The analyst will lead smaller improvement initiatives, support larger global workstreams, and convert business needs into practical solutions that reduce preparation effort, accelerate root-cause analysis, and improve the team’s ability to make and keep promise dates.
Key Outcomes
- AI and low-code automation solutions are identified, implemented, adopted, and sustained.
- Manual meeting preparation, follow-up, and recurring reporting effort are reduced.
- ITP exceptions, likely root causes, and potential solutions are identified faster.
- ITP processes, standard work, action tracking, and escalation routines are implemented and consistently used.
- Teams improve their ability to make and keep customer promise dates.
- Power BI requirements and simple reports provide clear, actionable information for ITP decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with cross-functional teams to lead assigned ITP implementation and improvement projects, translating decisions into clear plans, owners, milestones, risks, and actions.
- Identify practical AI and automation use cases, prioritize opportunities, build low-code solutions where appropriate, and coordinate specialists for more complex development.
- Use AI to streamline meeting preparation and follow-up, summarize exceptions, support root-cause analysis, draft status updates and standard work, and surface potential solutions for human review.
- Challenge manual ways of working, demonstrate improved approaches, and help teams adopt AI-enabled processes.
- Define Power BI reporting requirements and work with BI specialists on complex solutions; build simple reports using existing datasets, Power Query, and basic DAX when appropriate.
- Interpret Power BI and other planning outputs, using AI-assisted analysis where appropriate to identify trends, exceptions, root causes, and decision needs.
- Create and maintain concise project plans, process maps, standard work, decision logs, action trackers, risk logs, and implementation updates.
- Support priority ITP meetings through preparation, facilitation, decision capture, action follow-up, and escalation of missed commitments.
- Work closely with Data Governance and assigned data owners to clarify business impact and route data concerns; this role does not own data validation or remediation.
- Apply responsible AI practices, including appropriate data handling, information security, human review, transparency, and compliance with company standards.
- Coordinate readiness, testing, training, deployment, adoption, and sustainment for assigned process and automation changes.
Decision Rights and Boundaries
- Determines the project, facilitation, documentation, and follow-up approach for assigned work within approved standards.
- Recommends AI, automation, reporting, process-improvement, and meeting-effectiveness priorities.
- Leads smaller use cases and pilots; coordinates technical, functional, BI, Data Governance, and information-security resources as needed.
- Does not own forecasts, supply plans, schedules, purchase decisions, customer commitments, data validation, or final technology and policy approvals.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Project Management, or a related field. Candidates with nontraditional backgrounds may be considered when project experience demonstrates the required capabilities.
- Demonstrated practical use of AI in projects, with the ability to learn new AI capabilities and apply them to real business problems.
- Relevant experience demonstrated through professional work, internships, project portfolios, or applied coursework.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across Commercial, Scheduling, Purchasing, Operations, Data Governance, IT, BI, and other functions while independently organizing work, removing barriers, escalating risks, and driving deliverables to closure.
- Experience identifying business use cases and implementing process improvements, automation, or low-code solutions.
- Strong Excel skills and the ability to define reporting needs, interpret results, and communicate business insights.
- Clear written and verbal communication, facilitation, collaboration, and change-leadership skills.
- Commitment to responsible AI use, data privacy, information security, and human oversight.
Strongly Preferred Qualifications
- Power BI experience, including simple report creation, Power Query, and basic DAX; advanced semantic-model development is not required.
- Experience with Power Automate or similar low-code workflow tools.
- Exposure to supply chain, manufacturing, planning, ITP, IBP, ERP/MRP, or enterprise process implementation.
- Experience with Oracle or Kinaxis.
Key Interfaces
Global ITP Implementation Leader and design team; business-unit ITP leaders and participants; Commercial, Client Success, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Scheduling, Purchasing, Operations, Finance, Quality, Data Governance, IT, BI, AI and automation, ERP, and information-security teams.
Working Conditions and Travel
This position is based in Duncan, South Carolina, and follows a hybrid work schedule, with an expectation of working onsite three days per week. The role supports global teams and may require travel and meetings across time zones. Onsite expectations may vary based on business needs, project activities, workshops, and team collaboration requirements.
