Projekteinkäufer managing procurement activities and supplier negotiations in major projects within the engineering sector. Seeking an experienced professional with strong negotiation skills and logistics knowledge.
About the role
- Senior Consultant in Strategic Analytics at Sun Life focusing on procurement and spend management decisions. Analyzing data, guiding decisions, and collaborating with various teams globally.
Responsibilities
- Support GPP’s Category Management & Strategic Sourcing team on sourcing event (with should cost models, bid analysis, market benchmark, scenario analysis), strategy development (with historical and forecasted spend trends) and spend reporting (with monthly/quarterly/annual reports and slides for various stakeholders)
- Extract, transform and interpret data at the lowest level of detail to analyze spend, identify trends, insights and opportunities
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics from RFP bids to guide decisions on awarding and contracting
- Conduct market research and benchmarking analysis to evaluate potential suppliers, track market trends, and identify emerging opportunities for strategic partnerships
- Prepare relevant data to enable tracking of management information and KPIs such as category savings, vendor SLAs
- Acquire, maintain and develop expertise, knowledge and information to support continuous improvement from relevant internal and external sources
- Work directly and effectively with various teams and share your expertise and insights with colleagues to expand our GPP knowledge and refine our approaches to come up with the best solutions and drive outcomes
- Structure ambiguous problems, derive insights from complex information into clear takeaways and actionable recommendations, using both qualitative and quantitative methods
- Communicate effectively with all audiences, including senior leaders, in a clear, compelling and concise manner – including but not limited to creating clear, organized slides and other format of communication that draws out important messages and supporting data, produce near “executive-ready” slides and outputs, effectively present specific content to audience and contribute to discussions
- Demonstrate an ability and drive to learn within a fast-moving team, provide flexible and creative support, proactively identify opportunities
- Establish trust-based relationships with teams to better serve them by blending critical thinking with hands-on experiences, helping teams address their most critical problems
- Listen to and appropriately address stakeholder feedback
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in Consultancy, Financial Services, Data Analytics/Management or Procurement Analytics
- Undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, business or procurement and supply focus
- Competency in Microsoft Office programs
- High proficiency in data analytics and visualization tools (IE/ MS Excel, Tableau, Alteryx and advanced with functionality such as pivots, power query, formulas)
- A strong ability to interpret data, draw insightful observations and state risks/limitations
- Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to understand and lead complex analyses from end to end including gathering requirements, assessing data integrity/completeness, building sophisticated models, deriving insights
- Ability to grasp and communicate complex ideas and data insights clearly and effectively at an executive level, both verbally and in writing
- Strong results-oriented project management skills; ability to prioritize and balance competing priorities; well organized, with high attention to detail
- Ability to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgment including resourcefulness and out-of-the-box thinking in navigating ambiguous situations/problems
- Ability to engage and collaborate effectively with others outside of Analytics CoE
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment
- A friendly, collaborative, and inclusive culture
- 20 vacation days per year
- Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
- Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
- The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
- Access to our Global Learning Centre, available 24/7 for your learning needs
- Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical and financial
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