Sourcing Business Analyst II

About this role

Responsibilities:

Job Summary: As a Business Analyst II, you'll perform research work and prepare financial analysis to make essential corporate planning decisions.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

Analytics:

• Uses advanced analytic skills and knowledge of multiple indirect categories to provide credible, action-oriented spending, cost, and supplier analyses and recommendations to management
• Builds and maintains category baselines and spend cubes; cleanses and classifies spend across ERP, P2P, and AP systems to expose addressable spend, tail spend, maverick buying, and off-contract leakage
• Develop should-cost, total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), and rate-card models to support RFx events, negotiations, and make-vs-buy decisions
• Quantifies, validates, and tracks savings (hard, soft, and cost avoidance) from award through realization in the P&L; reconciles claimed savings with Finance and budget owners
• Discovers and drives new ways of using information — supplier scorecards, price-index and commodity exposure tracking, demand management, and specification/consumption analysis — to impact business decisions and results
• Leads cross-functional special projects as necessary (category strategy refreshes, supplier consolidation, contract renewals, RFP bid analysis, systems/process improvements)
• Provides complex analysis and recommendations to Sourcing Managers, and internal business leaders on existing supplier agreements and new sourcing opportunities
• Supports contract lifecycle activities analyzes pricing schedules, escalators and indexation, rebates and tiered discounts, and supplier compliance to contracted rates
• Performs Business Analyst I duties

*The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on ...