Job Description
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, materials, and buying channels (SAP, Ariba catalog and non-catalog).
- Clean, enrich, classify, and reconcile purchasing data, supplier invoices, catalog, contract, inventory, and material master data.
- Identify savings opportunities through price variance analysis, supplier consolidation, demand aggregation, tail-spend analysis, specification alignment, and sourcing opportunity sizing.
- Build item-level pricing benchmarks using supplier quotations, distributor catalogs, transaction history, RFP data, and market information.
- Analyze supplier price changes, inflation requests, freight, surcharges, and tariff claims; document assumptions and assist with simplifying complex data to enable decision making.
- Analyze inventory consumption trends, stock levels, inventory turns, excess and obsolete materials, duplicate items, and standardization opportunities to support working-capital improvement.
- Partner with maintenance and plant stakeholders to validate material usage, criticality, substitution potential, and site-specific requirements.
- Develop supplier scorecards and track cost, quality, service, delivery, continuity, and contract-performance metrics.
- Support strategic sourcing events by preparing baselines, supplier bid files, bid-comparison models, scenario analyses, award recommendations, and implementation tracking within the Ariba sourcing tool or other available tools.
- Monitor catalog utilization, preferred-supplier adoption, leakage spend analysis and off-contract purchasing; identify corrective actions and measure results.
- Help create and enhance dashboards and automated reporting for supplier spend, project pipeline, savings, inventory, supplier performance, and sourcing execution.
- Establish transparent savings calculations, maintain initiative-level documentation, and partner with Finance for validation.
- Continuously improve analytical processes, reporting cad