Senior Analyst, Procurement

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can learn and grow? If so, you may be the perfect fit for the Senior Analyst – Procurement position at Walmart!  

As a Senior Analyst – Procurement, you will be responsible for assisting the team to collect specifications for items, triage tickets, changes, requests, ad hoc reporting, and creations. You will also be helping the procurements managers with launching bids, ensuring SAP information is correct, and other duties as needed.

Location: This position will be fully onsite in Bentonville, AR

Job Description

• Negotiation: Prepare and compile relevant information and data for use in negotiations. Understand negotiating positions, key drivers and levers, and desired outcomes. Effectively engage at all levels in well thought out conversation that takes a position.

• Contract Management: Extract relevant contracts from contract management tools or other sources to analyze the relevant information. Identify and understand the contract components (for example, terms and conditions, deliverables, pricing). Validate contract components against standard templates to identify missing components and highlight the potential risks of missing components to the respective stakeholders.

• Supplier Relationship Management: Identify, classify and segment suppliers and complete supplier assessment against defined criteria. Track and monitor supplier performance against Key Performance Indicators and Service Level Agreements and create reports and share with stakeholders. Develop and maintain working relationships with suppliers at an operational level and respond to simple supplier queries. Escalate complex supply issues to the appropriate level for resolution as needed.

• Category Strategy and Management: Identify savings opportunities and plan, make recommendations, and execute for less-complex categories. Ensure delivery against business goals by identifying potential risks to the business. Support recommendations around category segmentation. Help build Total cost of ownership (TCO) / clean sheet models by pulling required information from various data sources and influence buying decisions.

• Source Selection: Prepare a list of potential suppliers. Conduct low-dollar or catalog sourcing activities. Support suppliers and internal stakeholders during sourcing events. Manage bid questions with input from team. Share relevant information with suppliers while ensuring confidential information is not divulged. Execute basic request for (RF) information/quotation/tender/proposal activities (for example, circulating the RF(x) document to potential suppliers) and respond to queries by suppliers.

• Influential Communication: Organize and communicate thoughts within scope. Present to and influence team and business partners a conveying message through basic understanding of the relevant context. Utilize relevant data and fact-based information to articulate results and provide a recommendation in a structured manner. Actively listen to others, seek and provide constructive feedback and provide ideas and recommendations on processes.

• Problem Solving: Use fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify and break down business problems with minimal guidance. Suggest alternative approaches/solutions based on internal and external benchmarking. Communicate horizontally and vertically within function for further investigation and options for consideration. Anticipate roadblocks and generate creative workarounds to ensure forward momentum.

• Data & Digital Literacy: Delineate the problem, leverage data to determine the root cause, and apply the information to find a solution. Ensure