Senior Specialist, Business Intelligence Procurement

Job Description

You make data matterby enabling Procurement teams to act faster negotiate smarter and realize savings with confidence. The Sr. Specialist Business Intelligence Analyst- Procurement will understand the business impacts behind procurement decisions and know how to leverage business intelligencecombining data technology and domain expertiseto drive cost reduction initiatives. Youll reduce manual reporting through automation improve decision speed and quality and help the team adopt data-driven ways of working translating insights into realized savings.

What youll do:

• Lead feasibility analysis for automation and analytics opportunitiesframe the business problem quantify potential savings and validate realized impact.
• Design and build scalable datasets and pipelines (ETL/ELT) in the datalake/lakehouse to power self-service analytics and repeatable insight products.
• Own use cases end to end: gather requirements create rapid prototypes deliver production-ready solutions and document standards for each automation journey.
• Generate actionable insights that drive category strategies improve supplier performance and strengthen stakeholder/supplier interactions.
• Define and standardize procurement KPIs (savings spend compliance PPV) ensuring consistent measurement and transparent lineage from source to dashboard.
• Balance long-term programs with ad hoc requests delivering quick high-quality analyses without sacrificing data quality governance or accuracy.
• Collaborate across IT Procurement Finance and Operationstranslate technical concepts for non-technical audiences and ensure solutions align to business goals.
• Stay hands-on and agilecontinuously learn iterate and do whats needed to deliver outcomes.

What youll bring:

• Practical fluency in SQL and Python; experience building robust data pipelines in datalake/lakehouse architectures (e.g. PySpark/ETL).
• Strong data modeling skills (star/snowflake) data quality and governance practices and clear lineage from source systems to dashboards.
• Strength in visual analytics (Power BI/QlikView) with storytelling that makes complex findings immediately actionable for business stakeholders.
• Comfort working in Agile environments (Jira/Confluence) iterating requirements and shipping value early and often.
• Procurement domain familiarity: category management supplier performance e-auctions preferred suppliers and savings measurement.
• Nice to have: exposure to SAP S/4HANA Ariba Databricks/Azure CI/CD or basic ML for predictive insights (e.g. demand/spend forecasting anomaly detection).

Education and experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Management Information Systems Business Analytics/Informatics Engineering or a related field
• 57 years of experience in BI/analytics within procurement supply chain or finance.
• Analytics expertise: spend analysis supplier performance analysis cost/price variance analysis savings tracking; comfortable with basic statistics and trend analysis.
• Business acumen: understanding of procurement and finance processes (RFQ/RFP sourcing category management contract lifecycle) and spend and savings reporting.
• Communication: clear written and verbal skills; able to translate technical findings into actionable recommendations for Procurement Finance and Operations.
• Stakeholder liaison: proven ability to collaborate with IT/data teams and procurement stakeholders; skilled in gathering requirements and documenting user stories.
• Data quality: experience with data cleansing validation and building standardized metrics/definitions (e.g. savings spend compliance).
• Governance and security: awareness of data governance role-based access and handling sensitive supplier/price data.
• Problem solving: demonstrated ability to prioritize troubleshoot data issues and deliver under deadlines.

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