Strategic Sourcing Analyst

Role purpose

Sourcing and supplier management

• Analyzes spend, supplier performance, market trends, and business needs to identify sourcing opportunities and cost savings.
• Supports category strategies through research, spend analysis, supplier evaluations, and sourcing events such as RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs.
• Monitors supplier compliance with contract terms, pricing, service levels, and preferred supplier programs.
• Supports supplier scorecards, business reviews, reporting, and continuous improvement.

Procurement systems and analysis

• Maintains procurement systems, supplier records, contract repositories, and category documentation.
• Develops dashboards, reports, and KPIs measuring procurement performance, savings, supplier compliance, and category results.
• Maintains category intelligence, including supplier segmentation, market assessments, spend analytics, and sourcing pipelines.
• Identifies process improvements through automation and standardization and supports purchasing standardization.

Planning and contract administration

• Supports contract renewals, expiration tracking, and document management.
• Provides market intelligence and cost projections for annual budgeting and forecasting.
• May travel up to 10% for supplier meetings, business reviews, branch visits, training, or procurement initiatives.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• The supplied description is cut off after the beginning of the minimum qualifications.

Work environment

• The role is described as hybrid, combining in-office presence with remote flexibility.
• The role uses a computer and office equipment and may involve extended periods seated; occasional movement around the office and lifting or moving items up to 15 pounds are described.