Senior & Junior Procurement Excellence Analysts

Senior & Junior Procurement Excellence Analysts

Do you have a degree within Business, Economics or Statistics and want to work with Big Data? In this position at Essity you will lead and support projects regarding systems, tools and processes as well as work in close collaboration with colleagues within Sourcing. This is an opportunity to work in the procurement organization of a company with a mission to improve people’s health and wellbeing.
The Organization, Global Operational Services (GOPS) is a global unit created to deliver business value to Essity and our customers by driving group-wide operational efficiencies through end-to-end services and solutions. Global Operational Services (GOPS) includes Sourcing, Supply Chain Development, Global Business Services, IT Strategy & Business Technology and IT Services.
About the role
Currently we have 2 open positions within The Global Procurement Excellence team. We have 1 junior and 1 senior Procurement Excellence Analyst positions to fill with preferred location in our Gothenburg office.
The two positions are distinguished by different level of responsibilities, and we therefore have different requirements for the positions. The essence is to manage the development and implementation of analytics tools and reports across systems by utilizing advanced analytics, artificial intelligence etc. The right candidates will supporting the Global Procurement Excellence team with KPI, SLA (Service Level Agreements) and compliance follow-ups by collaborating with all other Global Procurement functions.
Your key responsibilities will include:
Procurement Analytics
Support in developing the procurement analytics roadmap
Develop analytics tools and reports to meet business objectives and needs
Ensure tools and reports are ready for implementation
Analyze internal and external data historic spend data and identify trends and patterns to derive opportunities for optimization
Leverage predictive analytics tools to incorporate a multitude of dynamic factors to predict trends, market fluctuations, and other analytics relevant to Procurement
Create intelligence that can be used by the Category Management Team and the business to add real value to the top and bottom line

Project Management (Senior Procurement Excellence Analyst)
Lead analytics projects in cross-functional teams
Represent Global Procurement Excellence in projects

Process Performance
Measure SLA / KPIs, compare to targets and distribute results
Review SLA / KPI report and identify areas for improvement

What you will do
You will in this role work with continuous improvements where you actively support best practice sharing across geographies. You will support the development of SLA’s and KPI’s for the Global Procurement organization. Also, you will work in close collaboration with the Global category teams and procurement operations, so having ability to network across the company is essential. In this role, you will furthermore improve user acceptance and process efficiency for the organization and work together with departments like IT, Master Data, GBS AccPay etc. You are preferably someone technically savvy who can drive evaluation and implementation of new tools.
Training and Development (Senior Procurement Excellence Analyst)
You will as a Senior Procurement Excellence analyst develop training material and execute functional trainings for processes, systems and tools. This requires you to have a coaching and pedagogical approach. You should act as a change agent to implement new ways of working and support a data driven way of working by enhancing analytical skills within the organization
What you need
We put great value in your personal traits and drivers. Are you a curious person who would like to explore and develop new solutions (e.g. machine learning and artificial intelligence)? Then we see this as an advantage. But for a really good match we also see other criteria equally important.
So, to be successful in this role, you need a minimum of a bachelor degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, finance, procurement, or comparable professional education. You have some years of working experience in similar role in procurement environment
You work independently and are comfortable in driving smaller projects and work towards multiple stakeholders in a high-pace matrix organization. You speak and write English on a fluent level. Given that you will have multiple stakeholders across the business, you should be a good communicator, with high sense of collaboration. As you will come across a wide range of people in all levels of the organization it is essential to have the ability to create and maintain relationships with colleagues.
Furthermore, you should:
Have basic process and business understanding in procurement environment
Have experience in SAP Ariba and SAP R3/S4HANA
Have experience in PowerBI or SAP Analytics Cloud
Be comfortable with processing and analysis – big data analytics/ trend analytics is an advantage
Actively drive analytical solution implementation by following development progress, testing and documenting

Additional Information
We are looking forward to reading your application. Please, apply online through our website and provide us with your CV in English at your earliest convenience.
We work with continuous selection of candidates which means that you may receive a response before application deadline. If you are selected for an initial screening, you will be contacted by responsible recruiter for a first interview – either digital or phone.
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