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Our client, a leading American multinational manufacturer of confectionery and pet food, is looking to engage with a Consultant: Regional Procurement Analytics Manager
Roles and responsibilities:
Conduct macroeconomic and category spend analysis utilizing data from Mars’s spend analytics tools and external market data.
Partner with Category managers to conduct opportunity assessment and stakeholder engagement to expand procurement influence into new spend areas
Conduct market and supplier research to enhance and inform sourcing and negotiation strategies
Cull insights from the analysis, consolidation and scoring of vendor proposals, and make recommendations to Category Managers and business partners.
Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and bench-marking analysis.
They will do this by using data visualization tools on complex data sets and interpreting mathematical models such as graphs, tables, metrics, and schematics to provide insights to Category teams, Business partners, and BD leadership
Manage projects related to KPI development/improvement.
Prepare recommendations and alternatives based on analysis of the business to standardize or make processes more efficient and/or reduce costs.
This role will play an important role in supporting complex strategic sourcing projects, including market and supplier research, RFP project management, and analytics support.
Work with the regional category team on the annual sourcing plan
Develop and maintain standardized performance metrics and tools that the regional buyers and use and leverage.
Duration: 12 months (extendable)
Location: Remote
Skills required:
- 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and procurement experience; specifically
in Logistics
- Experience in Procurement, specifically in Logistics, a must.
- Global Ocean Transport experience highly regarded.
- Highly analytical, preferably with an MBA background
An American multinational manufacturer of confectionery and pet food
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