Associate Specialist - Supply and Freight Optimization

Sunoco LP is a leading energy infrastructure and fuel distribution master limited partnership operating across 47 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, Europe, and Mexico. The Partnership's midstream operations include an extensive network of approximately 9,500 miles of pipeline and over 100 terminals. This critical infrastructure complements the Partnership's fuel distribution operations, which serve approximately 10,000 convenience stores, independent dealers, commercial customers, and distributors.

At Sunoco, we take great pride in what we do and wholeheartedly believe our employees drive success for our company and our customers.  We are always looking for the best and brightest talent and we are committed to making your job a challenging and rewarding experience.

Summary:

This position assists the Supply & Trading groups in managing multiple aspects of the supply chain including allocation planning, transportation/distribution strategy, site setups, and supply chain communications.  The ideal candidate will be a strategic problem-solver who can analyze our current supply network and support our business intelligence and reporting efforts. In this role, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders to build and maintain dashboards that help the organization monitor key metrics and make data-driven decisions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze supply chain trends at approximately 350 terminals and manage customer level allocations while communicating with internal stakeholders.
• Act as a conduit between key organizational partners in Scheduling, Pricing, Transportation, and Sales to translate business requirements into effective data visualizations
• Support data preparation and validation, ensuring data accuracy before visualization
• Strong Data Mining skills including Data Cleaning, Data Preparation and Data Visualization
• Utilize general purpose programming languages (e.g. Python, R, etc.) to create automate processes and create visualizations for end users
• Proficiency with dashboarding tools such as Streamlit, Shiny, etc
• Troubleshoot dashboard issues, assist with performance tuning, and help ensure visualizations are user-friendly and reliable
• Document dashboard logic, data sources, and design choices to support future enhancements and maintenance
• Understand supply chain and logistics operations

Required Skills (External)

Requirements:

Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:

• Bachelor’s degree (or final year) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Business, Supply Chain or a related technical field
• 0-2 years of experience in related field.
• Self-starter, motivated and proactive in setting direction and making recommendations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively
• The ability to prioritize work requirements within tight, concurrent deadlines.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (e.g. R, Python)
• Familiarity with data modeling concepts or ETL processes
• Competence in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word).
• Highly resilient with results driven attitude.

Working Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Usually, normal office working conditions.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time due to prolonged periods of sitting or standing.