Sr Category Analyst
hace 2 días
**How will you make an impact?
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The **Sr. Category **Analyst**:
This role reports locally into the Center of Excellence with dotted line to the Sr. Director, Indirect PMO leader and will support the global indirect procurement team with business process and program analytics for various strategic spend programs.
This role will require strong procurement expertise to effectively structure and analyze complex data and is an extension of the indirect procurement team performing program analytics on high value ($700-800m) strategic spend programs.
Strong procurement or business expertise is required to effectively coordinate and understand complex data sets (multi site, multi format, multi supplier) and identify improvement opportunities in support of indirect strategic initiatives.
**What will you do?
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**Scale of Responsibilities**
- Leads global category complex programs in excess of $700M that require multi region / multi source / multi stakeholder collaboration and coordination
- Develop and deliver executive-level presentations as part of the monthly operating model to propose and obtain support for key initiatives, provide implementation updates, and demonstrate value pull through
- Evaluates operational supplier metrics to drive improvements to strategic programs, and supports category teams in managing supplier relationships to increase value
- Performs data discovery, analysis and modeling to identify value, develop business cases, perform financial and options analysis, identify target objectives and create implementation/resource plans to ensure projects contribute to the organization
- Responsible for the monthly Value Capture Key Process Indicator reporting process, monthly communication plan on initiatives impacting the global programs
- Reports on key targets, projects, pipeline (with Group/Category visibility), and AOP financial targets, profitability, including adoption of a standard tool and processes
- Coordinates data sets from multiple sources, formats, and processes to synthesize and develop key program insights to drive ongoing program and category value
- Uses business partner inputs and knowledge of existing systems to develop standard reporting requirements, drive process improvements across divisions, countries, sites and analyze process issues
**Technical Responsibilities**
- Writes clear and well-structured business requirements/documents
- Collaborates with Sites to gather key sourcing / program requirements, gain sign-off on supplier selections operational proposals and awards
- Consolidates and synthesizes key data sets from multiple sources to develop programs/insights to deliver category value
- Tracks and monitors timely completion of project targets within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report that progress as required
- Uses Lean/ Practical Process Improvement methodologies to drive continuous improvement
- Proactively engages with team members to identify and document resource constraints
- Influences key partners to achieve key targets on time and within plan, develop relationships within the company to complete assigned projects
- Facilitates breakthrough thinking by integrating diverse views while participating in targeted content deep dive sessions to enable problem solving
- Collaborates with Procurement Enablement on reporting cadences to achieve a single source of truth for the savings pipeline and inflation
**How will you get here?
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**Education**
- Bachelor's degree or higher in business analysis, business administration, finance or related field
- Certification in Project Management is desirable
**Experience**
- 5+ years of procurement category management, sourcing, or purchasing/supply chain experience
- 3+ years program/project management experience within a consultancy organization or within a consulting capacity is strongly preferred
- Experience working in a matrix-based procurement environment, driving program analytics, program management and executing strategic procurement initiatives
- Business Analyst experience focused on cost assessments, low cost sourcing, Return on Investment development, supplier performance preferred
- Experience analyzing procurement data to draw business relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools
- Program management experience in a matrix-based procurement environment
**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- Robust project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, key deliverables, business case and baseline development)
- Shown experience in eliciting requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to structure ideas in a clear and concise manner
- Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Understanding negotiating strategies and formulating business requirements
- Able to lead change and effectively communicate with and present to Senior Leadership
- Strong financial competence and ability to make recommendations on
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