Procurement Analyst
Dallas, IA - USA
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Job Summary
The Procurement Analyst is responsible for enabling data-driven decision-making across the Procurement organization. They focus on spend analytics sourcing insights contract visibility and administration of the Oracle Source-to-Pay (S2P) platform. They partner closely with Category Managers Finance Legal IT and business stakeholders to support strategic sourcing initiatives improve procurement processes and enhance reporting capabilities. They help maintain accurate spend and contract data supports workflow automation and drive adoption of procurement technologies. They bring strong analytical skills with an innate ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain spend supplier and category management reports and dashboards.
- Ensure accurate spend classification and data integrity across procurement systems.
- Partner with Finance and Category Managers on budgeting forecasting savings tracking and cost avoidance reporting.
- Maintain benchmark data and market indices used to support strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Analyze pricing lead times payment terms and other supplier performance metrics.
- Track and report sourcing opportunities approved projects and missed opportunities.
- Create and administer stakeholder surveys to gather feedback on sourcing initiatives.
- Monitor contract expirations renewals and sourcing pipeline opportunities using contract management tools.
- Support Category Managers with contract reporting and agreement administration.
- Identify process improvement and workflow automation opportunities.
- Serve as the business administrator for the Oracle S2P platform including workflows approvals and user access.
- Partner with IT and Oracle support teams on system enhancements integrations and troubleshooting.
- Maintain supplier catalogs and support user adoption of procurement tools and self-service capabilities.
- Leverage AI-enabled tools including Microsoft Copilot to improve reporting analytics and process efficiency.
- Support training and change management initiatives related to procurement systems and processes.
- All other duties as assigned to meet evolving business needs.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain Data Analytics or a related field.
- Certification/Licensure: Relevant procurement supply chain or analytics certifications preferred.
- Experience: 3 years of experience in procurement business intelligence analytics or systems administration.
- Experience with Oracle S2P or similar procurement and contract management platforms.
- Proficiency with Power BI Power Automate Power Apps Power Query and advanced Excel.
- Knowledge of procurement best practices spend analytics and strategic sourcing processes.
- Strong analytical problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Demonstrated discretion and confidentiality in handling and protecting sensitive information.
- Technical: Proficient with common office technologies including Windows PCs Microsoft O365 (Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint etc.) and web conferencing (Teams Zoom Webex etc.)
- Environment: Comfort commuting to/from and working in a 100% on-site setting (listed in this posting) with travel for related meetings/events.
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About Company
Forward Air Corporation is a leading provider of time-definite surface transportation and related logistics services to the North American air freight and expedited LTL market. We provide scheduled surface transportation of cargo as a cost effective, reliable alternative to air transp ... View more