Senior Staff Analyst, Sourcing

• San Jose
• Hybrid
• Hourly salary: $60

Education:

Bachelors in Supply Chain Analytics or related business degrees.

Day to day :

• Analyze supplier performance details and trends
• Analyze internal and external cost details to identify opportunities and build strong data driven cases to support cost negotiations
• Create cost models for supplier price structures. Develop models detailing impact on variables to cost and profit including things on volume/spend growth and impact on material price changes
• Utilize AI in modeling and analysis
• Issue RFQs facilitate & lead auctions and generate should cost requests
• Analyze results from above and provide summary and recommendations to sourcing managers
• Develop negotiation fact sets and presentations to support supplier negotiations

Additional details:

• Negotiates favorable terms volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment custom engineered products systems software or components
• Acquires and maintains understanding of technology trends market forces cost trends and supplier technology road maps
• Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy and discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiates refunds
• This is a highly specialized individual contributor role that requires deep expertise from a professional / technical thought leader in their respective field or discipline
• This position typically requires extensive experience in a specialized field and an advanced college degree or equivalent
• The role requires expertise within a discipline in a specialized field and provides technical guidance and direction for the area of specialization
• Requires strong analytical skills and evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual and qualitative information in complex or novel situations
• Requires the ability to filter prioritize analyze and validate complex and dynamic material
• Typically requires a degree or equivalent and a minimum of 6 or more years of experience
• Lead data analysis for cost reduction and supplier performance improvements
  • Analyze supplier performance details and trends
  • Analyze internal and external cost details to identify opportunities and build strong data driven cases to support cost negotiations
  • Create cost models for supplier price structures including variables impacting cost and profit such as volume/spend growth and material price changes
  • Utilize AI in modeling and analysis
  • Issue RFQs facilitate and lead auctions and generate should cost requests
  • Analyze results and provide summaries and recommendations to sourcing managers
  • Develop negotiation fact sets and presentations to support supplier negotiations
  • 70% current products 30% NPI

MUST HAVES:

• Need to be able to step into the sourcing manager roles and have interest in doing so
• Experience in supplier selection performance management cost models presentations
• Skilled in data analysis and presentation of results. Comfortable with data ambiguity and developing clarity across disparate systems.
• Experience leveraging AI for this scope.
• Ability to handle a high number of concurrent tasks in parallel. Example being launching multiple RFQs and should costs and during the response time working on other analyzes and projects.
• Effective communication skills written oral and presentations. Able to tell a story from data and effectively communicate with visuals.