Corporate Procurement – Business Analysis – Lead Associate

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Job Description

As a valued colleague of our Procurement Sourcing and Category Analytics team you will play a critical role in driving tangible value for Fannie Mae. You will enable sourcing process excellence through sourcing analytics and bring market and category insights to inform our sourcing decisions. You will also help improve our processes and facilitate implementation of best practices championing the use of technology.

We have one opening for this position and it can be worked from our Reston VA or Washington DC office.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The Corporate Procurement Business Analysis Lead Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Conduct category and market research provide data and insights to help identify opportunities and enable strategic sourcing and category management activities.

• Assist the Strategic Sourcing and Category Management team in managing sourcing events (RFI RFP etc.) and conduct sourcing analytics to facilitate supplier selection and award decision-making process.

• Drive for sourcing best practices. Identify sourcing process improvement opportunities develop/implement solutions to streamline the work processes and improve the quality of the deliverables.

• Lead implementation of new tools/capabilities drive continuous optimization and utilization of the procurement technologies/tools and provide support and training.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 4 years of functional experience in strategic sourcing and category management or sourcing and category analytics.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent.

• Category Analytics experience: Knowledge of key sourcing and category management levers especially in categories such as professional services IT hardware software facilities services etc.

• Process Excellence experience: Knowledge of leading practices in strategic sourcing and category management and experience identifying and optimizing related processes.

• RFP Analytics and Scenario Modeling experience: Demonstrated understanding of ways to optimize the RFP process including supporting analytics and scenario modeling.

• Strong communication skills and ability to present information/ideas to audiences in ways that are engaging and easy to understand.

• Strong relationship management and influencing skills. Can persuade and negotiate with others facilitate meetings and resolve conflict.

• Skilled in PowerPoint.

• Skilled in Excel Tableau or Power BI and can develop graphical representations of data using charts diagrams pictures and dashboards.

Desired Experiences

• Masters degree in supply chain or business administration or equivalent.

• Sourcing and category analytics experience within a commercial/corporate environment.

• Change Management: Experience leading cross-functional transformation and change initiatives.

• Prior experience managing projects and leading cross-functional teams.

• Experience working with one or more source-to-pay solution(s) such as Ivalua Ariba Coupa etc.

Corporate Procurement Business Analysis Lead Associate

Target Salary: $107000 - $139000 a year

Qualifications

Education:

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The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health Life Voluntary Lifestyle and other benefits and perks that enhance an employees physical mental emotional and financial well-being. See more here.

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