Our client, an international company, is looking for an experienced

Procurement Analyst

Job purpose :

Participate in collaboration with Group Procurement Manager and/or affiliate procurement Manager, to the design and implementation of data driven effective procurement strategies at Group level.

Monitor and report actual-to-budget progress by line of business, analyse historical trends, and maintain procurement key perf

performance indicators to report periodically.

Procurement :

• Support key Global projects follow up with line of business or lead buyers by providing data
• B-title budget and forecast preparation and reviews in close collaboration with the team
• Coordinate the key supplier’s evaluation and relationship at Group Level with the HSSEQ
• Ensure accurate master data for suppliers, categories, sub-categories, products and articles
• Support implementation of the Procurement digitization
• Understand how to model policies, procedures, governances into the systems
• Establish financial make or buy analysis in case of investments in manufacturing equipment’s
• Drive the introduction of new procurement 8Source2Contract) system and continuous improvements
• Facilitating innovation projects and new product rollouts in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Liaise with Internal Control to report to follow up and close procurement open points on GRC Portal
• In addition, this position will also get some ad-hoc requests to meet Business Lines and Downstream Managers procurement needs and will be expected to give input on process improvements

Data Analysis & reporting :

• Consolidate data on cost savings Program & improve affiliate spends data report
• Own the data by coordinating Data Cleanse / Data mapping exercises / maintain data
• Generate monthly procurement performance reports, track spend against budget, identify and investigate unusual items and report accordingly
• Use data / systems to establish Group technical specification and historical prices to improve efficiency of the tendering process, gather prices references for strategic categories
• Extract and interpret Procurement relevant Data from ERP systems and other sources
• Analyse budget and forecast key figures for procurement strategies or new sourcing projects
• Analyse and report commodity prices and freight index with exposure on OESA products sourcing
• Providing in-depth analytical support for procurement projects the Group Procurement organization

 Experience & education required :

• At least 5 years of experience in procurement with S2C or P2P processes
• At least 2 years in data analytics group and/or background in data science
• Excellent Business Analytics skills and capabilities: Data & insight driven coding
• Initial professional experience in Data Engineering and/or strategic sourcing
• Strong project Management Skills
• Experience with business intelligence reporting tools (PowerBI or similar)
• Very good knowledge of MS Office, Excel capabilities (pivot, vlookup, VBA, etc.)
• ERP knowledge desirable and comfortable with information system,
• High level of commitment as well as strong analytic, conceptual and entrepreneurial thinking skills
• Organization: able to meet strict deadlines / autonomy / Communication / Teamwork
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to thing strategically
• Able to multi-task and prioritize efficiently in a fast-paced international environment
• Ability to work independently with problem solving approach
• Very good communication skills
• Ability to drive results through the management of projects, processes, systems
• Fluent in French and English

Other Requirements/skills/competencies :

• Customer service oriented
• Integrity, rigor and respect of governance principle
• Employee engagement
• Autonomy & responsibility
• Creativity & innovation
• Team spirit
• Risk awareness
• Sear for efficiency & performance
• Available to travel for projects and to meet with working relations (Estimated travel requirement: 30%)