Senior Analyst, Sourcing Analytics

The Responsibilities

• Spend & Supplier Insights:
  • Develop and maintain spend cube and category analytics.
  • Conduct supplier concentration and fragmentation analysis.
  • Analyze cross-fleet supplier overlap to identify consolidation opportunities.
  • Provide ongoing supplier performance analytics.
• Item Master & Data Foundation:
  • Design and build the enterprise item master, including standardized naming, category coding, SKU governance, and master data standards.
  • Lead data cleaning, normalization, and harmonization efforts required to establish enterprise-wide sourcing analytics and reporting.
  • Partner with internal stakeholders to develop cross-site item master harmonization and taxonomy design.
  • Establish data governance standards and category hierarchy.
  • Hand off ongoing data quality maintenance to Vendor & Data Excellence once structures are in place.
• Opportunity Identification:
  • Identify sourcing opportunities through analysis of spend patterns, supplier behavior, inventory consumption patterns, and category dynamics.
  • Develop opportunity prioritization frameworks based on spend magnitude, fragmentation, and feasibility.
  • Track addressable spend baselines.
• Sourcing Pipeline Analytics:
  • Develop and maintain sourcing opportunity pipeline reporting across categories and business units.
  • Quantify addressable spend, savings opportunities, supplier concentration, and sourcing prioritization metrics.
  • Support sourcing wave planning and initiative sequencing.
  • Track opportunity progression from identification through sourcing execution and savings realization.
• Reporting & Dashboards:
  • Build and maintain dashboards providing real-time visibility into sourcing and procurement KPIs.
  • Develop self-service analytics capabilities for category managers.
  • Develop executive-level reporting supporting sourcing pipeline visibility, addressable spend, savings realization, and supplier concentration metrics.
  • Provide ad hoc analytical support for sourcing events, negotiations, and leadership requests.

The Profile to Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
• Three (3) – Six (6) years of relevant experience in sourcing, procurement, supply chain, data/spend/finance analytics, or related fields; prior experience in the energy or utility sector strongly preferred.
• Applicable years of experience may substitute for degree.
• Advanced proficiency in BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Experience developing spend analytics, supplier analytics, category taxonomies, and/or spend cube methodologies.
• Direct spend cube design experience preferred.
• Ability to work with large data extracts and structure them into usable sourcing views.
• High proficiency in Excel and / or SQL.
• Advanced analytical & operational ability to translate large datasets into actionable insights.
• Identify supplier concentration, price variance, fragmentation, inventory standardization, supplier consolidation, and savings opportunities.
• Support business cases, savings baselines, and sourcing-wave prioritization.
• Experience extracting, cleansing, reconciling, and analyzing data from ERP, procurement, inventory, and CMMS platforms (Workday, Maximo, SAP, Coupa, or similar) preferred.
• Interpersonal & communication ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to sourcing, finance, operations, and leadership.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure data translates into executable sourcing actions.
• Self-starter with strong critical thinking skills; ability to manage competing priorities under a deadline.
• CPSM or CPIM certification a plus.

The Physical Requirements

• Must be able to accomplish physical requirements with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to stand, walk, talk, hear, and close and distance vision capability.
• Ability to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and/or crouch.
• Ability to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Ability to travel up to 20%.