The Procurement Center of Excellence Data and Market Specialist is a Global role within the Procurement Vila-real (Castellón).
Spain.
New Position The Procurement CoE is specialized in fostering best practices, roll-out groupwide initiatives, drive continuous improvement, assume business process ownership to coordinate management of spend across the organization and develop functional knowledge with a clear business performance and value focus.
This role supports the CoE Procurement Excellence Data and Market Specialist in driving key initiatives –helping in bringing a future procurement vision to life.
Procurement Performance -Define, evolve and maintain overall Procurement Performance Dashboard and key OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).
-Reporting to ExCo.
Procurement Analytics & Insights -Evolving and maintaining Global and category dashboards and cockpits to enable effective management of spend and decision making (E.g.
Sap Analytics Cloud).
-Regularly conducting analytical work to identify potential opportunities to unlock value as well as powerful and impactful visualizations and analysis that can bring in new ways of managing spend.
-Continuously identify new enablers to step-up Procurement practices (Predictive Analytics, AI).
-Supporting sourcing teams in ad-hoc Analytic report.
Market Intelligence -Define, evolve and maintain a Market Intelligence approach/capability to support the Procurement function (E.g.
commodities price, labor indicators, economic indicators, market trends, market relevant news, etc.).
Supporting in the execution of Special Procurement Projects, such as; -Support in the Separation / Integration of newly acquired businesses (Procurement function).
-Conducting Synergy assessments (Procurement upsides from potential acquisitions).
-Driving Cost Optimization Assessments and executing focused optimization efforts -Any other ad-hoc initiatives.
Requirements: With 20-30% travel expected to international sites.
Valuable MBA / Master in Business Analytics or linked to the procurement area.
Progressive career track within Procurement at an International Company (ideally with Worldwide operations) +2-4 years Experience in sourcing of Indirect categories of spend, preferable in a global setting Knowledge / Experience of the Industrial Goods, Chemical, and/or Manufacturing Industries preferable Experience in a Procurement practice of top consulting firms highly desirable Exposure to managing multiple stakeholders Fluent in both Spanish and English
