Procurement Category Analyst

• Leverage relationships with stakeholders, suppliers, and industry bodies / peer organizations for deeper insights into needs and capabilities
• Deliver research and insights to support category strategy development and sourcing strategies
• Collate external benchmarking insights from peer companies / industry bodies and translate into actionable insights to shape best practice strategies across categories in scope
• Generate, analyse, and draw quality insights from large, complex data sets from multiple internal and external procurement and business sources, to build and evolve analytics capabilities that allow regular review and improvement of strategies
• Identify, align and extract the market intelligence required to help drive the business forward
• Collaborate with the Procurement Services Hub team to develop, test and deploy Category KPI dashboards
• Monitor data accuracy, and drive improvement in the completeness and accuracy of data
• Support implementation of data collection processes, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
• Monitor user feedback and satisfaction with quality of KPI insights / dashboards
• Support improvements in forensic spend analytics for categories in scope, identifying areas of non-controlled spend where procurement can drive greater value
• Partner with technology and finance to ensure we leverage the procurement technologies we already have to enhance effectiveness and improve outcomes
• Consistently use spend data and spend analytics and reporting e.g. PSA
• Consistently use Procurement reporting platforms e.g. Power BI
• Consistently use third-party data sources to create quality insights e.g. Hackett and ProcurementIQ
• Build partnerships and maintains strong relationships with the ability to listen, interpret, influence, negotiate, inspire, and challenge
• Communicate insights and findings from analysis and test and learn opportunities to optimise business processes
• Identify and share improved ways of working to increase output and process simplification

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred
• 2+ years of experience in a Procurement or Business Analytics field
• Expertise in end to end Procurement and Category Management or related Business Consulting Services
• Experience in the usage of Procurement platforms and optimisation tools
• Graduate or equivalent qualification and member of professional body, e.g., CIPS
• Project Management, Continuous Improvement (e.g. Lean, 6 Sigma), Change Management, Procurement / Purchasing background ideal
• Fluency in English

Ability to speak another European language would be an advantage