Job Description

Job title: Procurement Analyst

Location: Frisco, TX & Burlington, MA

Job Type: W2 contract Only

Duration: 6+ months

Job Summary:

The Procurement Analyst is responsible for support activities related to sourcing events. They will handle large amounts of data in 3 main fields: market data, spend data and specifications for material and services. The Analyst works cross-functionally, adding value by ensuring such data is accurate and useful in support of sourcing category work in Indirect Procurement

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provides support to the procurement category manager by:
• Managing category data collection from both internal spend systems and external supplier, normalizing and summarizing such data in digestible manner to derive insights
• Identifying and actioning cost-reduction opportunities by analyzing spend data, material specifications, market benchmarking analysis and should-cost analysis to identify focus areas for Category Managers to pursue
• Developing and executing RFXs by identifying new suppliers, maintaining the supplier list, populating normalized specifications of materials and services, prepare pricing workbook and other sourcing requirements.
• Building post event analysis by pulling data from Ariba Sourcing which include pricing, RFX questionnaire scoring, assess award scenarios, etc.
• Building and maintaining spend dashboards and reports
• Managing the RFX Timeline to ensure business needs are met
• Facilitating NDAs ahead of sourcing events
• Coordinating with suppliers ahead and during sourcing events
• Assisting in resolving invoice and supplier delivery issues

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, or business-related field or related experience.
• Digital aptitude, and experience with various systems including Ariba, Snowflake, Beeline, SAP, IBM Cognos, Celonis and Tableau/ Power BI to extrapolate insights.
• Proficient in MS excel
• Ability to work with multiple departments and to determine and interpret business needs.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet challenging deadlines.
• Ability to uphold Safety standards, participate in Continuous Process Improvement on the job

Physical Requirements or Working Conditions:

• Predominately sedentary light office position with high frequency of keyboarding/computer work required (67% - 100% of the workday)
• Travel up to 10%

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