Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Charles River Laboratories is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO) focused on improving health and well-being through its diverse services. The Senior Analyst Global Procurement COE will be responsible for the analysis and maintenance of supplier spend and market data to support global procurement strategies and metrics.
Responsibilities
- Work on COE/Systems teams to ensure day to day Procurement technology/systems have high adoption rate, strong UX, are intuitive and fit for purpose, supporting a highly complex and growing business
- Maintain existing modules and roll out new modules
- Ensure system uptime and resolve errors, including root cause analysis
- Work as COE for all data requests across procurement, finance, and the business
- Work with category managers to drive continuous improvement of the supply base to support their strategies
- Support the development of category specific metrics and score cards to effectively measure / evaluate supplier performance against all key KPI’s and SLA’s
- Lead the development, tracking and reporting of key department performance and compliance metrics to a variety of business audiences
- Define and maintain data management standards to ensure the delivery of consistent, accurate business analysis and metrics for key department activities, including:
- Spend categorization
- Savings and cost avoidance
- Financial risk reviews
- Compliance reporting
- Identify, engage, and manage external subscriptions and service providers of supply market intelligence and insights in support of the global procurement team
- Support category teams to ensure access all relevant internal and external data required for category strategy formulation, internal spend analysis, RFP analysis, etc
- Design and execute supplier/stakeholder communication and survey activities
- Develop and maintain the department’s online content on multiple internal/external knowledge management websites
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (B.A. / B.S.) in a related discipline
- 3+ years experience in data analytics, financial analysis, procurement, or supply chain with demonstrated proficiency in taking large amounts of data and transforming it to information
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal, analytical, presentation, influencing and negotiation skills required
- In-depth knowledge of complex pricing arrangements and supplier profitability
- Strong Analytical Skills / Demonstrated expertise in manipulating large datasets
- Microsoft Excel, Access and BI
- Strong knowledge of SAP and working knowledge of Jaggaer Procure To Pay
- Detail oriented with excellent organizational, problem solving, communication, and professional interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment
- Outstanding change management and presentation skills
- Able to deal with sensitive and difficult situations in a calm and effective manner
- Ability to work partly independently and in a team environment and balance multiple priorities concurrently
- Ability to contribute creatively in a collaborative setting
- Experience initiating efficiency/optimization programs
- Demonstrated experience in developing measurable KPIs
- MBA a plus
- CPM or CPSM desirable
- Data Certifications
Benefits
- Bonus/incentives based on performance
- 401K
- Paid time off
- Stock purchase program
- Health and wellness coverage
- Employee and family wellbeing support programs
- Work life balance flexibility
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