Senior Lead Analyst - Sourcing & Procurement Analytics - KPO - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS

We are looking for Senior Lead Analyst - Sourcing and Procurement Analytics with our leading KPO Client in Pune. The Senior Lead Analyst would be required to work alongside clients Sourcing & Procurement function (including outsourced operations) and play a critical role in analyzing data, building models and identifying opportunities in the Sourcing & Procurement function that leads to improvement in business metrics i.e., savings, spend aggregation, price / contract compliance, supplier diversity, catalog usage, payment terms, working capital, etc.

He / She would be responsible for the following functionalities & responsibilities :

Identify relevant KPIs - Define business metrics relevant to the client's Procurement function & take complete ownership for driving their improvement

Identify key factors impacting KPIs : Identify upstream, downstream or operational factors that impact the achievement of target levels of the KPIs

Perform pre-analysis activities such as classifying invoice and PO records to a specified hierarchy, conduct data reviews to ensure high quality and accuracy of reports on which analysis is performed.

Works with relevant Enterprise information management teams to organize the data capture and models for data analysis

Develop analysis to understand performance : Performs quantitative and qualitative analysis like (raw) data analysis, statistical modelling, data deep-dives etc. to acquire insights from data

Develop actionable insights to drive outcomes:Translates insights into an analysis report and communicates the insights back to the requestor.

Map insights to action items (working with clients stakeholders) in order to improve business metrics

Facilitate monitoring of actions to drive outcome:Monitor actions (targeted business outcomes achieved)- by providing guidance and feedback to the operations team

Works with Reporting specialists to standardize and automate recurring analytical requests into standard reports and dashboards

Project collaboration: Work effectively both independently and as a member of cross-functional teams

Project governance: Ensure compliance to governance model. Seek and manage customer feedback in order to ensure strong customer satisfaction on projects

Skills Required :

- Having experience in the Sourcing & Procurement domain extensive work experience in Procurement processes at a Senior Management / Transformational Consultant role

- At least 2-4 years experience in front-line business consulting, crafting solutions and delivering presentations to management teams

- Needs to have exposure to building data models, basic statistical concepts and analyzing data & interpreting results

- Excellent Data analysis and interpretation skills - proven skills in Excel modeling & analysis

- Strong story-telling skills to deliver recommendations from data analysis Fluent verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills

- Hands-on experience with any of the analytical tools (SAS, R, Tableau, etc.)

- Skills in SQL and Data visualization

Education :

- Post Graduate or MBA (preferred) from Tier 1 institutions with graduation in Engineering / Mathematics / Operations Research / Science