Procurement Finance Strategy Analyst

Job Information

Role & Responsibility

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY DISCOVERY
• Conduct business-process assessments and operational reviews.
• Digital tools, automation, analytics, intelligent assistants, and emerging technologies
• Engage stakeholders to understand challenges, pain points, decisions, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, service, quality, cost, inventory performance, and employee effectiveness.
USE-CASE & BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT
• Translate business needs into clearly defined improvement and technology-enabled use cases.
• Document the problem statement, users, current state, future state, requirements, dependencies, risks, and success measures.
• Estimate benefits, implementation effort, change impact, and ongoing support needs.
• Provide prioritization recommendations using agreed portfolio criteria.
SOLUTION DESIGN
• Define future-state business processes and operating requirements.
• Develop business requirements, solution concepts, process maps, workflows, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with technical teams to determine the appropriate mix of process redesign, analytics, automation, digital tools, and emerging technology.
• Ensure human oversight, exception management, data controls, and responsible technology use are considered in solution design.
PROJECT LEADERSHIP & IMPLEMENTATION
• Lead assigned innovation projects from discovery through implementation and stabilization.
• Coordinate activities across business, data, technology, security, external providers, and change-management teams.
• Manage project plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and stakeholder communications.
• Lead business testing, validation, readiness, deployment, and post-implementation improvement activities.
ANALYTICS & INSIGHTS
• Analyze operational data, workflows, and performance trends.
• Define KPIs, dashboards, alerts, and decision-support requirements.
• Identify performance gaps, root causes, patterns, and improvement opportunities.
CHANGE MANAGEMENT & ADOPTION
• Develop process documentation, training content, communications, and user-support materials.
• Facilitate training, demonstrations, pilots, and feedback sessions.
• Monitor adoption and user experience, resolve barriers, and improve deployed solutions.
• Support transition to process owners and operational support teams.
INNOVATION ADVOCACY
• Serve as an innovation ambassador and trusted advisor within assigned functions.
• Share best practices, use cases, lessons learned, and success stories.
• Maintain awareness of relevant emerging technologies and industry practices.
• Support capability development and responsible experimentation across the organization.
FUNCTIONAL ALIGNMENT
• Planning & Inventory: demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, and SIOP.
• Procurement & Supplier Management: strategic sourcing, buying, supplier development, cost engineering, and purchasing operations.
• Logistics & Transportation: transportation management, freight optimization, network design, and distribution operations.
• Warehousing & Material Flow: warehouse operations, inventory accuracy, material handling, and distribution-center optimization.

Job Requirement

• What Skills and Experience You’ll Need:
  • 5-7 years of experience supporting business analysis, digital solutions, AI, automation, data analytics, or technology implementations, improvement and technology-enabled solutions.
  • Experience gathering, documenting, and maintaining business and functional requirements.
  • Foundational knowledge of AI-enabled technologies, digital solutions, automation tools, business applications, and data platforms.
  • Foundational understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, cloud technologies, system integrations, APIs, workflow automation, testing, deployment, and support practices.
  • Ability to develop process documentation, requirements, use cases, workflow diagrams, and testing materials.
  • Experience supporting testing, user acceptance validation, implementation, or deployment activities.
  • Foundational understanding of data structures, data governance, security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.
  • Ability to assess solution options and communicate observations and findings to stakeholders.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams including business users, developers, architects, data teams, and technology partners.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Occasional travel may be required (up to 5%).
• Education:
  • We value skills gained through both education and experience. Applicants may qualify with a bachelor’s degree Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Data Analytics, or related field and/or relevant experience supporting technology-enabled business process improvement or with two additional years of relevant professional experience in accordance with applicable law.