Analyst Supply Chain Procument

About the Role

This foundational role within the newly established Procurement Center of Excellence (CoE) reports directly to the Director of Supply Chain Procurement. The Analyst will transform raw spend data into actionable strategic insights, ensuring data integrity, spend visibility, and market intelligence to optimize the company’s end-to-end value chain—including private/dedicated fleet assets, global freight, 3PL providers, and Distribution Center (DC) infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a data-driven problem solver who bridges the gap between complex ERP systems and executive-level sourcing strategies.

Responsibilities

Data Analytics & Spend Visibility

• Extract, cleanse, and analyze multi-million dollar spend data across decentralized business units to identify consolidation opportunities and eliminate maverick spending.
• Maintain and optimize automated procurement dashboards using Tableau/PowerBI to track key performance metrics and realized savings.
• Serve as a key functional user of Oracle/SAP ERP systems, ensuring proper GL coding, requisition workflows, and taxonomy alignment.
• Conduct data-driven cost and market commodity index tracking to build predictive "should-cost" models for logistics, fleet maintenance, and material handling equipment (MHE).

Sourcing Support & RFQ Execution

• Assist the Director in drafting, distributing, and managing formal Requests for Quote (RFQs) and Requests for Proposal (RFPs) for indirect spend and capital projects.
• Execute total cost of ownership (TCO) matrices to compare competing vendor bids on parameters beyond unit price, including lead times, freight costs, and payment terms.
• Pilot and leverage agentic AI sourcing tools to automate routine quote collection, requisition routing, and vendor intake processes.

Supplier Performance & Governance

• Own supplier relationship management (SRM) metric tracking, regularly auditing key 3PL, carrier, and MRO vendors against contract SLAs.
• Support regular performance and compliance audits, ensuring all active vendors possess up-to-date insurance certificates, safety records, and executed MSAs.
• Maintain the centralized digital contract library, monitoring auto-renewal deadlines, termination windows, and key liability/indemnity clauses.

Requirements

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Data Analytics, or Engineering.
• Preferred certifications: CPIM, CSCP, or progress toward Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt.

Experience & Technical Expertise

• 2 to 4 years of progressive experience in supply chain analytics, procurement, or financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
• Expert-level mastery of Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, Power Query) and data visualization tools (Tableau or PowerBI).
• Hands-on experience operating within enterprise ERP environments (Oracle or SAP).

Core Competencies

• Analytical Rigor: Ability to synthesize complex, unvetted datasets into concise executive summaries and actionable insights. Use of AI tools is highly recommended and preferred.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills to interface with DC General Managers, Finance analysts, and global vendor accounts.
• Agile Mindset: Comfortable working in a high-growth, greenfield department where processes are being built from the ground up.