Senior Associate, Procurement Analyst

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Senior Associate, Procurement Analyst

We are looking for a Senior Associate, Procurement Analyst to join our growing Global Strategic Procurement Team. In this role, the Senior Associate, Procurement Analyst will play a key role in driving procurement excellence across the organization. This position will focus on strategic sourcing, spend analytics, supplier negotiations, and procurement process improvements to optimize costs, mitigate risks, and enhance supplier performance. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across various categories. The Senior Associate, Procurement role will support the development of indirect category sourcing strategies, and execution against these strategies with direct support of category leadership.

We move fast with a laser focus on customer and stakeholder success. That means we need people who focus on more than just cost. We need adaptable doers who are great at engaging with stakeholders, skilled spend analyzers, strategic sourcing and negotiation experts and solid project managers, flexible and fast multi-taskers, and people who possess a true total cost of ownership philosophy. We need the next generation of procurement talent!

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct spend analysis to identify cost-saving and optimization opportunities.

• Support development of category strategies based on market trends, business needs, and total cost of ownership principles.

• Support and/or lead RFx processes (RFI, RFP, RFQ) and supplier evaluations to ensure competitive bidding and value-driven procurement.

• Support the negotiation vendor contracts and agreements, ensuring optimal terms, risk mitigation, and compliance with procurement policies, particularly for costs and market terms

• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and align sourcing strategies accordingly.

• Support supplier relationship management efforts, including monitoring supplier performance metrics and identifying areas for improvement.

• Identify and reduce non-compliant or rogue spending through improved procurement governance.

• Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with stakeholders, focused on delivering on their requirements while balancing cost and risk, leading to the optimal vendor solutions for the Company. 

• Define key metrics and necessary systems to track and report on procurement activity. Provide updates to both leadership and the business on cost savings, vendor negotiations, spend under management, operational efficiencies and future initiatives.

• Develop and manage reporting to support identification of opportunities to reduce sourcing and purchasing costs by establishing contracts that improve the organization's buying patterns and enhance Athena’s end to end supply processes.

• Develop and maintain procurement dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track sourcing performance, cost savings, and supplier effectiveness.

• Leverage procurement technologies (e.g., spend analysis tools, eSourcing platforms) to improve efficiency and transparency.

• Collaborate with leadership to identify continuous improvement initiatives in procurement processes, driving efficiencies and cost reductions.

• Support financial planning efforts by properly allocating procurement savings and cost reductions to divisional budgets.

• Leverage existing procurement toolset (spend analysis and source to pay capabilities) to drive efficiency and transparency into everything we do. 

Typical Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Math and/or Business preferred but not required

• Demonstration of strong financial analytic acumen required

• 3+ years of relevant experience in and with Procurement, Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Source-to-pay processes and technologies required; Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Spend Analysis or Supply Chain consulting experience preferred 

• Demonstrated record of analytic accomplishments with a financial background

• Advanced and proven knowledge of procurement industry cost structures and drivers

• Analytical & Financial Acumen – Ability to analyze spend data, market trends, and supplier proposals to make data-driven sourcing decisions

• Category Expertise – Strong understanding of indirect procurement categories, supplier management, and cost structures

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