Senior Agile Procurement Analyst

Senior Agile Procurement Analyst

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

As a Senior Agile Procurement Analyst, you'll be a variable resource within the Global Procurement Center of Expertise (COE). This role is committed to unlocking incremental value and accelerating value delivery of procurement projects. You'll deliver high visibility, high ROI projects across categories in collaboration with the Procurement Agile Manager, category leaders and business leaders. You'll utilize skills in data analysis / visualization, project management, and problem solving / critical thinking. The role will support a pipeline of projects with Procurement stakeholders. This is an individual contributor role as a member of an agile squad, reporting into the Procurement Agile Manager for Procurement Analytics.

In this role, you will:

Analytics Project Execution – 70%

• Develop and deliver reporting and analytics solutions designed to translate data into actionable business intelligence.
• Work with Analytics Manager to develop use cases; propose potential modeling approaches, assess feasibility, estimate effort and data requirements, draft project plans
• Identify, retrieve, query, and append data from internal databases and external data sources in support of reporting and analytics operations.
• Create, design, build, modify reports, scorecards, and dashboards using Power BI and other tools.
• Provide training and support to enable stakeholders to use reporting and analytics tools in effective and efficient ways.
• Utilize data to identify, analyze, and solve problems and translate into recommendations and presentations.
• Present and explain complex analytical methodology and results to non-technical audiences.

Sourcing Project Execution – 30%

• Provide global and regional category teams with analytics, RFP/RFQ/RFI content development, and business case building for sourcing execution.
• Provide robust analytical support (should cost, scenario modeling) to market events.
• Accelerate value delivery on key sourcing efforts in the pipeline by adding analytics, rigor and horsepower while utilizing a broad set of analysis capabilities.
• Leverage agile principles and problem-solving frameworks to lead projects, provide structure and to provide recommendations on the approach for sourcing events.
• Drive incremental value in current and future sourcing efforts by deploying critical thinking and problem-solving tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members and provide support to leadership on projects.
• Develop strategic sourcing strategies in alignment with squad value improvement/ cost saving goals and broader organizational objectives.
• Develop templates to standardize sourcing analytics and drive knowledge management.
• Build knowledge of e-sourcing tools & leverage capabilities for value delivery (Coupa & Coupa Sourcing Optimization).

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly ex