Procurement Analyst

About us: RRD GO Creative, with more than three decades of expertise in business communications, marketing solutions, and digital productivity solutions, we successfully help reimagine customer experiences for companies. Our three pillars of Global Brand Solutions, Smart Work Solutions, and Technology & Innovation Services transform the way businesses work for customers, building strong brand loyalty.

Our 8,000 experts in 42 locations work across various industries to co-create a future-ready business landscape. We adopt a consultative approach to digitizing every aspect of the Customer Journey so you can effectively translate a strategic vision of expansion and efficiency into a superior Customer Experience. We help you effectively address customer needs so you can make Customer Experience your competitive differentiator.

A Procurement Analytics Specialist (or Analyst) sits at the intersection of supply chain management and data science. Their primary job is to turn massive amounts of purchasing, vendor, and market data into actionable strategies that save the company money and reduce supply chain risks.

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Job Description: Procurement Analytics Specialist

Department: Global Procurement / Supply Chain Operations

Reports To: Procurement Leadership - Procurement Analytics Manager

Experience: 2–5 years of analytical experience, ideally focused on procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain analytics.

Position Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

RRD is seeking a data-driven Procurement Analytics Specialist to oversee and optimize RRD’s corporate spend data. In this role, He/ She will analyze purchasing patterns, evaluate supplier performance, and monitor market trends to uncover cost-saving opportunities. He/ She will build interactive dashboards, design predictive models, and deliver insights directly to sourcing managers and executive leadership to drive smarter, more strategic buying decisions.

Core Responsibilities

• Spend Analysis: Categorize and analyze corporate spending across different business units to identify maverick spend (unapproved purchasing), volume aggregation opportunities, and areas for cost reduction.
• Dashboard Creation & Reporting: Design, build, and maintain automated dashboards and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) tracking supplier performance, savings realized, and procurement cycle times.
• Supplier Risk Assessment: Analyze supplier financial health, geographic vulnerabilities, and delivery histories to build risk-mitigation models.
• Market Intelligence & Forecasting: Track commodity pricing, inflation trends, and macroeconomic data to forecast future pricing and assist in contract negotiations.
• Data Integrity & Governance: Clean, structure, and validate complex data sets originating from disparate ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, ensuring data accuracy across all sourcing platforms.

Education & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business Analytics, Statistics, Finance, Data Science, or a related field.

Hard Skills & Tools

• Data Visualization: Advanced proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or QlikView to present complex data clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Data Manipulation & Querying: Strong SQL skills are required for extracting and joining database tables. Knowledge of (XXYY) advanced data cleaning and statistical modeling is highly preferred.
• ERP Systems: Hands-on experience navigating and extracting data from enterprise systems like SAP, ARIBA Spend Management, ServiceNow, Concur, etc.
• Advanced Excel: Mastery of pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Power Query, and financial modeling.

Soft Skills

• Translation Skills: Ability to turn raw numbers into a compelling business story for sourcing managers and executives.
• Negotiation Support: Providing data-backed ammunition to procurement teams before they go into contract talks with major vendors.

Why this role matters: Modern procurement has evolved past simple purchasing. A skilled procurement analyst frequently helps companies uncover an average of 5% to 15% in hidden savings by identifying inefficiencies, renegotiating fragmented supplier contracts, and optimizing inventory levels.