Group Procurement Analyst

This role requires a creative, (socially) intelligent and curious person who understands data requirements, has demonstrated practical knowledge and expertise in applying statistical models and querying tools to analyze, enrich and validate data from a variety of data sources and platforms in order to deliver tangible results aligned to our business objectives and success. The position has an international character. The position acts as a liaison between internal customers, different functional groups and different geographies.

The candidate is expected to be a subject matter expert in data extraction, transformation, enrichment, and analytics.

The candidate is willing to travel frequently within Europe, mostly one- to two-day trips.

Purpose of the Role

As part of the Procurement team and reporting to the Group SVP Operations, this position will be responsible for:

• Developing performance and support analytics for procurement programs and projects at European level
• Extract, transform and analyze data from multiple sources to support Category/Product Management (CM), Sourcing, Fact Based Negotiations, pricing and assortment related initiatives
• Maintain and support implementation Procurement support tools (Ariba, Dashboards, et cetera)
• Support business with, but not limited to, analytical capabilities for developing initiatives to increase bottom line performance, adjusted gross margin, execute fact-based negotiations
• Align purchasing tools and analytics development with business
• Progress tracking and savings / benefits monitoring of projects and programs

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• The tasks performed by this position consist of - but are not limited to - the following:
• Set up spend analytical reports and dashboards according to requirements of individual platforms/OpCos
• Facilitate analysis of historic spend and help identify opportunities to achieve cost reductions
• Spend time in the business for focused support and to get to know products
• Follow the procurement development program and work on communications project
• Build strong and effective relationships with internal customers (OpCo procurement and central team)
• Work alongside OpCo and divisional procurement teams to deliver business benefit
• Data collection and analysis
• Provide analytical rigor and data extraction expertise to the business
• Collect, cleanse, enrich and validate data from a variety of data sources, countries and platforms
• Visualise analysed complex data sets to create useful information to support fact-based negotiations
• Develop standard reports and tools to evaluate the current performance (sales, % of sales, gross margin, net profitability, spend data, et cétera) of categories, products, suppliers, private labels and brands.
• Create and deliver presentations of findings, prepare negotiations, support assortment optimisation for internal teams
• Develop recommendations, put into context analytical findings and quantify their impact for business stakeholders
• Train local staff in use and interpretation of analysis, reports and tools
• In collaboration with a Category Manager responsible for carrying out minor buying trajectories

Proceses

• Support category teams in setting up transparent business cases for improvement
• Provide data improvement and performance measures
• Communicate effectively with team members to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.

Program/project support:

• Ensuring that project plans, business requirements and functional specifications are created, managed and tracked for projects
• Execute progress tracking and savings/benefits monitoring of procurement excellence initiatives.

Key Functional Competencies

• Detail oriented, analytical, and well organized with the ability to multi-task and prioritize independently
• Excellent presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical skills to present numbers and findings
• Pro-active, self-motivated and can work independently as well as in a team environment
• Positive attitude, team player, strong sense of urgency
• Professional work ethic and integrity

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree required (Master preferred)
• Minimum of five years relevant working experience
• Highly proficient in with MS Excel including VBA, reference formulae and PivotTables, and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of SQL and other querying tools such as Oracle, MS Access, and others.
• Proven analytical skills, including statistics tools to structure, develop and interpret models
• Fluent (both in verbal and writing) in English. Verbal knowledge of German and/or French a strong plus

Location

Based in Schiphol-Oost with the willingness to travel 20% throughout Europe.

Three days on-site, two days home-office.

PROCEDURE

• Interview by Recruiter;
• Interviews with BME;
• Assessment;
• Background and Reference check.