Senior Analyst - Procurement Research
Role Overview
Seeking an experienced procurement research professional to play a pivotal role in the development of high-impact thought leadership, benchmarking insights, and client-facing research deliverables.
The role sits within The Hackett Group's global research team and works in close partnership with senior procurement advisors and practice leaders.
Success requires exceptional PowerPoint capability, strong analytical skills, and proven research experience.
Candidates must be able to operate independently, move quickly, and translate research insights into clear, compelling, executive-ready deliverables with minimal guidance.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Seeking an experienced procurement research professional to play a pivotal role in the development of high-impact thought leadership, benchmarking insights, and client-facing research deliverables.
The role sits within The Hackett Group's global research team and works in close partnership with senior procurement advisors and practice leaders.
Success requires exceptional PowerPoint capability, strong analytical skills, and proven research experience.
Candidates must be able to operate independently, move quickly, and translate research insights into clear, compelling, executive-ready deliverables with minimal guidance.
Critical Success Factors
- PowerPoint Mastery – Mandatory: advanced PowerPoint skills including slide storytelling, visual structuring of complex ideas, charting, tables, and executive-level layouts.
- Work quickly and confidently in creating and refining slides for senior audiences.
- Capable of producing polished, client-ready decks (e.g., Spotlight reports, benchmark readouts, research summaries) with limited iteration.
- Excel & Analytical Skills – Strongly Preferred: highly proficient user of Generative AI models (inc. Co-Pilot) and a proven ability to interrogate and validate the model outputs.
- Solid Excel skills are required for analyzing benchmark data, survey results, and research inputs.
- Ability to move from raw data to insights efficiently.
- Prior Research Experience: hands-on experience with primary and secondary research in a professional setting.
- Prior responsibility for shaping research questions, analyzing findings, synthesizing insights, and developing structured research outputs.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop fresh perspectives on procurement business and technology trends, including emerging areas such as generative AI and agentic AI.
- Lead and support the creation of procurement research deliverables, including benchmark-driven and Spotlight reports.
- Lead and support quantitative and qualitative research outputs.
- Lead and support client-specific insights and customized deliverables.
- Lead and support executive presentations and thought leadership content.
- Lead and support training, enablement, and knowledge-sharing materials.
- Shape, execute, and synthesize findings from quantitative and qualitative research initiatives.
- Translate research outputs into high-quality PowerPoint deliverables for internal and external use.
- Edit, critique, and refine research outputs to meet Hackett quality, storytelling and presentation standards.
- Collaborate closely with procurement advisors to ensure research remains relevant, actionable, and client-ready.
- Track procurement and technology trends via market analysis, vendor activity, news, and investment signals.
- Ensure turnaround-time (TAT) targets for all deliverables/requests are consistently met.
Ways of Working / Operating Model
This role works primarily with senior procurement leaders as internal customers who provide direction on research topics and priorities, set expectations for deliverable types, content focus, and timing, and offer feedback and content insights.
The role holder is expected to self-manage workstreams and deliverables, take ownership for execution, structure, and quality, and operate with minimal project management support.
Qualifications & Experience
- 6 to 9 years of experience in procurement research and advisory role.
- Demonstrated experience delivering research-based insights in a professional environment.
- Strong understanding of procure-to-pay, source-to-contract, supply base planning and strategy, and function management and administration activities within the procurement function.
- MBA from a business school of repute with a major specialization in Operations / Procurement / Supply Chain Management.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
- Strong proficiency in PowerPoint (advanced) and Excel.
- Advanced understanding of LLM models (inc. Co-Pilot).
Additional Skills & Attributes
- Experience with survey design and research tools (e.g., Qualtrics, SPSS, SAS).
- Understanding and exposure to data visualization tools such as Power BI.
- Ability to perform rigorous secondary research and synthesize diverse data sources.
- High attention to detail, speed, and quality under time pressure.
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and incorporating feedback quickly.
- Self-driven, intellectually curious, and highly accountable for outcomes.
- Flexible and adaptable in responding to evolving research priorities and emerging stakeholder requests while maintaining ownership, quality and delivery discipline.
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