PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION

The Sr. Analyst, Supply Chain Management (SCM) Procurement provides business support to the SCM Procurement team through data and process analysis, reporting, planning, and participating in ad hoc projects. The Sr. Analyst, SCM Procurement will support the supply chain team in creating and maintaining weekly scorecards, monthly executive presentations, spend analyses, metric creation and reporting. The analyst will work with the teams to identify business trends, potential risks, and customer needs. Finally, the analyst will work cross-functionally with global teams in the US, UK, LATAM, and Asia, to support business processes, collaborate on process improvements, build mechanisms to increase accuracy, and influence others to ensure that the SCM Procurement team meets business goals, and provides the highest level of customer experience.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Supports operational activities of supplier management including communicating and resolving daily issues between internal organizations and suppliersUse, create, and develop critical business analytical tools to turn data into accurate and relevant insights to enable business decisions and recommendationsMonitor performance trends, and provide solutions to maintain and improve performance against goalsBuild and enhance process flows and develop and support documentation within the organization’s Quality Management SystemClearly convey enterprise needs and expectations to external vendorsEffectively communicate and present vendor needs and requirements to internal stakeholdersDevelop performance results readouts and present to internal managementBuild and maintain client/supplier score cardsImprove contract repositoryWork with vendors to ensure allocations, deliveries and POs are flowing properly to support the business needs

OTHER FUNCTIONS

Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Skills/knowledge: 

Advanced MS Excel skills including modeling, pivot tables, functions, formulas and othersAdvanced PowerPoint skillsIntermediate database skills (SQL and Access preferred)Strong analytical and modeling skillsCustomer focused and capable of building business partnerships and influence at all levels of organizationStrong team building and team-oriented skillsAbility to operate within areas of ambiguity

Experience/education: 

6+ years of related experience or bachelor’s degree and 2+ years related experienceFinancial analysis and metric creation experienceProcurement/sourcing experience preferredExperience with Microsoft Dynamics (DAX) preferred, but not required

Physical demands:  While performing the duties of this job, the employee may spend 4-8 per day sitting and working at a computer.  The ability to adjust focus, use hands to grasp, finger, handle, reach or feel and sit for prolonged periods are needed for this position.  Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication utilizing a headset.

Work environment:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Brick/Mortar locations: Regularly requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions. Regularly requires working with other in a close proximity and sharing workspaces. Requires the understanding that the noise level is that of an office environment and will rise significantly during peak hours.