Analyst, Indirect Spend

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• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

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What You'll be Doing:

• Provide strategic analysis by in modeling opportunities to assess risk and recommend procurement decisions
• Applying quantitative methods, supplier management, data mining, and analytical tools to support business needs, sourcing events and budget development across all business areas.
• Partner and consult on report and tool solution designs that apply best in class analytics
• Effectively communicate business analysis and provide recommendations for improvements
• Keeps customer at the center of analytic approach, analysis and solutions and partner with cross functional teams to drive customer centricity at Meijer
• Partner with reporting teams to improve reporting effectiveness and highlight variances
• Collaborate and build strong business relationships with internal business customers
• Leverage disparate data sources for holistic understanding to solve complex business problems
• Understand corporate policies and system functionality to enforce compliance to procurement systems and adherence to Indirect Procurement policies
• Support development of sourcing and procurement processes
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field. Master's degree preferred.
• 1-2 years business experience in an analytics field or related professional environment. Retail or Consumer facing industry preferred.
• Working knowledge of SAP/Ariba, Microstrategy, Properties Procurement Automated Ordering tool or other programming language.
• Experience with applications used for analytical, quantitative, and to apply statistical techniques and tools to derive insights from large, complex data environments solving complex and ambiguous business problems in a timely manner.
• Active curiosity-Must enjoy gathering and digging deeply into data to identify opportunities and risks.
• Strong work ethic complemented by a positive, can-do attitude.
• Team player: audit and improve existing processes, collaborate with senior team members and contribute to the team's success. Ability to influence without authority in a cross functional team setup.
• Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal and written.
• Ability to develop communications and presenting to cross functional partners.
• Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills with ability to prioritize multiple/competing projects and assignments.