Sr. Analyst, Procurement

Job Location: ​Chicago​

Chicago HQ (hybrid)

Want to make an impact?

The Senior Procurement Analyst supports both the Contract Manufacturing Procurement team and the Indirect Procurement team. This role partners with internal Procurement managers, collaborates with the external supplier community as well as internal cross functional teams to bring products to market in a timely manner, analyzes data, creates indirect POs in SAP, and resolves business challenges. 

Ways you will make a difference

• Reports to Director, Procurement – Contract Manufacturing, with a dotted line to the Senior Director, Indirect Procurement. Works with suppliers and other internal departments including Project Managers, Marketing, Production Planning, Operations, Quality Assurance, R&D, Material Management, Master Data and Finance.
• Works with External Manufacturing team, Marketing and Project Managers on the commercialization of new and/or updated products; responsible for understanding project and timeline, completing documentation and communicating to internal and external stakeholders. Super-user for all commercialization tools.
• Supports the RFP/RFQ process, contract negotiations and administration of supplier contracts. Researches and provides data for spend and market analysis.  Understands and is able to articulate stakeholder requirements to internal and external teams. Prepares implementation plan and works with operations and QA to ensure timely onboarding of new suppliers and/or products.
• Must be able to build and retain knowledge of assigned suppliers to understand underlying business trends, including production changes and commodity component price changes.
• Understands and uses cost models that accurately reflect financial impact for sourcing scenarios, reporting, forecasting and budgeting. Provides inputs for budget and forecast. Creates customized reporting for internal and external use. 
• Implements, and maintains Vendor Scorecard. Plans and participates in business reviews with internal and external stakeholders to review and improve supplier performance.
• Supports the invoice reconciliation process (Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Receipt); acts as a liaison with finance/AP, warehouse management, planning, and supplier to address individual purchase order/invoice discrepancies (included GR/IR discrepancies) to provide resolution and limit financial exposure. 
• Creates indirect POs in SAP
• Reviews monthly Finance PPV Report and provides requested support and updates to procurement analysts. 
• Tracks, projects and reports on cost savings projects.
• Works on assigned tasks for corporate integrations.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Skills that will make you successful

• Individual should be detail oriented, analytical, organized, with strong written and oral communication skills, excellent time management skills and use a method-based approach to project management.
• Must be able to work with suppliers and internal departments to resolve issues in a timely and positive manner
• Must be able to attend to a broader range of activities and changing priorities including multi-tasking, as necessary
• Ability to work independently on new assignments
• Ability to function in rapidly changing environment with multiple sets of stakeholders
• Understands the origin and reasoning behind key procurement policies, practices and procedures
• Must be flexible, agile, results and deadline driven

Experiences that will support your success

• 4-year degree in Business or related experience
• 2+ years’ experience preferably in a Supply Chain-Procurement environment
• Experience with SAP and SAP Business Objects or other ERP system preferred
• Experience with SAP ECC POs
• Experience in a disciplined, yet constantly changing, operating environment, in a matrix organization
• High proficiency with MS Office Suite (primarily Excel and Power Point) 
• Food background a plus, but not required
• Bi-lingual (Spanish) a plus, but not required

 

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