Senior Analyst Global Procurement COE (REMOTE)

About the role

The Senior Analyst Global Procurement COE is responsible for building, analyzing, and maintaining supplier spend and market data required for the development of global Procurement strategies, metrics, and KPIs. Utilize data to drive performance for Procurement value contributions (savings and efficiencies). Responsible to build, optimize, and support Procurement technology tools and influence technology roadmap. Have capabilities to support people, process, and systems across multiple areas of Procurement (Operations, Category, and Systems).

Responsibilities

• Work on COE/Systems teams to ensure day-to-day Procurement technology/systems have high adoption rate, strong UX, are intuitive and fit for purpose, supporting a highly complex and growing business.
• Maintain existing modules and roll out new modules.
• Ensure system uptime and resolve errors, including root cause analysis.
• Work as COE for all data requests across procurement, finance, and the business.
• Work with category managers to drive continuous improvement of the supply base to support their strategies.
• Support the development of category specific metrics and score cards to effectively measure/score supplier performance against all key KPIs and SLA's.
• Lead the development, tracking, and reporting of key department performance and compliance metrics to a variety of business audiences.
• Define and maintain data management standards to ensure the delivery of consistent, accurate business analysis and metrics for key department activities, including:
• Spend categorization
• Savings and cost avoidance
• Financial risk reviews
• Compliance reporting
• Identify, engage, and manage external subscriptions and service providers of supply market intelligence and insights in support of the global procurement team.
• Support category teams to ensure access to all relevant internal and external data required for category strategy formulation, internal spend analysis, RFP analysis, etc.
• Design and execute supplier/stakeholder communication and survey activities.
• Develop and maintain the department’s online content on multiple internal/external knowledge management websites.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) in a related discipline. MBA a plus.
• Experience: 3+ years experience in data analytics, financial analysis, procurement, or supply chain with demonstrated proficiency in taking large amounts of data and transforming it to information.
• Certification/Licensure: CPM or CPSM desirable, Data Certifications.
• Other: Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal, analytical, presentation, influencing, and negotiation skills required. Must possess in-depth knowledge of complex pricing arrangements and supplier profitability.