Strategic Sourcing Analyst

Accountabilities: Strategic Sourcing Execution: Support global commodity strategies by translating priorities into sourcing projects, negotiation activities, milestones, and implementation plans. End-to-End Sourcing Activities: Manage sourcing initiatives from opportunity identification and requests for quotation (RFQs) through quotation analysis, supplier selection, implementation, and savings realization. Spend and Market Analysis: Evaluate spending patterns, supplier quotations, market conditions, cost drivers, capacity, lead times, and demand to identify cost-reduction opportunities and potential supply risks. Cost Optimization and Productivity: Support purchase price variance (PPV), value analysis/value engineering (VAVE), competitive bidding, supplier consolidation, resourcing, and other productivity initiatives. Business Cases and Recommendations: Prepare sourcing recommendations, total-cost analyses, business cases, and executive-ready presentations to support strategic and commercial decisions. Supplier Negotiations and Continuity: Support supplier negotiations, commercial terms, alternate-source development, capacity assessments, recovery plans, and business-continuity initiatives. Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Operations, Finance, Materials, regional procurement teams, and suppliers to achieve sourcing and project objectives. Supplier Performance Management: Support supplier scorecards, business reviews, corrective actions, supplier development plans, and escalation follow-up. Procurement Analytics and Reporting: Develop and deliver data analytics and decision-support solutions that improve visibility, data integrity, and fact-based decision-making across procurement and supply chain operations. Data Integration and Governance: Integrate, reconcile, and validate ERP/MRP, data warehouse, sourcing, and supplier information to improve accuracy, consistency, traceability, and accessibility. Reporting Standards and Automation: Maintain standardized metric definitions, reporting logic, data dictionaries, and self-service reporting capabilities that establish a reliable source of truth. Automate recurring analyses and provide ad hoc decision support for sourcing, negotiations, productivity, and risk mitigation. Project and Priority Management: Maintain accurate project trackers, savings forecasts, risk registers, sourcing documentation, and reports while managing multiple projects, analytics priorities, and supply escalations with urgency and accountability. Requirements: Professional Experience: At least five years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, data analytics, business intelligence, or a related manufacturing environment. Sourcing and Procurement Expertise: Experience supporting sourcing projects, supplier negotiations, PPV/VAVE initiatives, sourcing transitions, or supplier performance improvement. Analytics and Reporting: Demonstrated experience developing analytical, reporting, or business-intelligence solutions using multiple data sources. Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. Analytical and Commercial Skills: Strong analytical, commercial, project management, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving capabilities. Data and Reporting Tools: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with data analytics, reporting, visualization, and business-intelligence tools. Experience with Power BI, Power Query, and DAX is preferred. Systems and Supply Chain Knowledge: Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems and manufacturing supply chains. Experience with data warehouses or SQL is an advantage. Data Interpretation: Ability to translate complex datasets into clear insights, business implications, and practical recommendations. Data Governance and Accuracy: Strong attention to detail, with a commitment to data integrity, documentation, governance, and repeatable processes. Professional Certifications: CPSM, Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst, or a similar professional certification is considered a plus. Collaboration and Organization: Ability to coordinate effectively across functions, manage competing priorities, and follow through on sourcing projects and supply-related escalations. Benefits: Work Arrangement: Full-time remote position within the United States. Strategic Impact: Opportunity to contribute to global procurement strategies, supplier performance, cost optimization, and supply-chain continuity. Professional Development: Exposure to strategic sourcing, manufacturing operations, business intelligence, and global procurement initiatives. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with diverse teams across procurement, engineering, finance, quality, operations, and regional supply chain functions. Innovation and Data-Driven Work: Opportunity to develop analytics and reporting solutions that improve operational visibility and support better business decisions.