Hybrid Prime Vendor Analyst

at Medline Industries, LP

• Job title: Prime Vendor Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: CA$75,000 - CA$85,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Prime Vendor Analyst at Medline Canada analyzing business and financial results to support sales opportunities. Delivering data-driven insights and collaborating with sales management to improve performance.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and develop relationships with the customer, Medline contacts and vendor community.
• Lead various committees on behalf of customer (ex. value analysis committee).
• Serve as initial point of contact for customers’ new and existing vendors.
• Meet with vendors to discuss products, pricing and terms.
• Present findings to key contacts in the customer’s procurement team.
• Measure the trends, efficiencies and effectiveness of sales and resource allocation and utilization.
• Prepare and analyze sales forecast, sales results, budget variances, and quarterly business presentations.
• Support sales team by managing contract terms, assisting with brand conversions, and tracking all savings and projects.
• Make presentations regarding project updates, business results, committee findings, etc.
• Review pricing to determine items that are priced outside of the normal predetermined range for typical customers of that market type.
• Ensure new pricing rules are first reviewed and evaluated for their impact for final implementation.
• Evaluate 3rd party industry pricing data being marketed and sold to Medline customers to understand what information is being provided and implications to the Company.
• Provide issue resolution in the following areas (not limited to): inventory surplus, backorders, outstanding invoices.
• Initiate and partner with the internal teams.
• Communicate resolution in a timely manner.
• Host weekly meetings with supply chain, materials services, and Medline Sales teams.
• Collaborate with Sales, IS and Finance to develop, create and maintain reporting requirements and ensure systems provide accurate and timely data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree. ( Will be considered: High school diploma and at least 5 years of experience in sales analysis and support).
• At least 2 years of experience in sales analysis and support.
• Experience diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).
• Willingness to travel for business related needs (i.e. training, accounts meetings, development, etc).
• Previous analytics experience in the healthcare industry.
• Previous inventory or supply chain analytics experience.

Benefits

• Collaborative work environment with highly engaged employees
• Market competitive compensation and benefits plan, including LTD & Insurance
• DPSP match program
• Annual Employee Appreciation Week
• Paid vacation and personal days
• Lifeworks® Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Resources supporting mental, physical, family and financial well-being
• Career growth and training programs
• Open communication with Senior Leaders
• Tailored incentives for eligible employee groups, such as home office reimbursement and Sylvan Learning Centre credit
• Employee referral program
• Education support programs
• Fitness subsidy
• Recognition programs
• Social activities
• And much more…