Lifestyle Design - Business Analyst - Operational

**About Lifestyle Design**
Our continuous journey to transform some excellences into an integrated group, leading at a global level the high-end furniture market, starts in 2014 when Haworth acquires Poltrona Frau Group.
Lifestyle Design is now a federation of 9 Brands, Poltrona Frau, Cassina, Cappellini, Ceccotti Collezioni, Karakter, Luminaire, Janus et Cie, Luxury Living Group, Interni and Zanotta 1.900 employee worldwide.
We operate in over 75 countries, with 80 Showrooms.
**Role and activities**
Most of the initiatives will be project-based and will require intensive co-operation with a large number of colleagues.
Examples of areas in scope (illustrative, definitely not exhaustive)
- Detailed benchmarking of product cost and performance, both internally and with competitors
- Preparation of cost Vs price analyses to support negotiations with suppliers on various categories
- Build-up of the global logistic model (i.e.
flows, warehouses) to optimize cost and service level to customer
- Development of tailored indicators to measure industrial performance
**Experience and Education**
- Engineering (any type)
- Economics, but with a strong personal interest in industrial, manufacturing topics
- Fluency in both Italian and English
**Technical and Soft skills**
- No specific skills required, but rather very strong intrinsics:
- Problem solving ability: structuring and prioritizing
- Numerical agility
- Intellectual curiosity
- Business judgment
- Open and extrovert attitude, ability to deal effectively with colleagues of very different background
**Work location**: Milan
Our company is an equal opportunity employer.