Senior Procurement and Market Intelligence Lead

Role Overview

• Lead enterprise market scanning of commodities, labor, logistics, capacity, inflation, economic indicators, and geopolitical risk.
• Develop authoritative Category Outlooks and real‑time market briefs to guide sourcing waves, negotiation timing, and strategy refinement.
• Advise Category Managers and executives on high‑impact market scenarios and commercial implications.
• Build predictive pricing models, inflation trajectories, regression‑based forecasts, and risk‑adjusted simulations.
• Develop should‑cost models for materials, services, and capex scopes; quantify cost drivers such as labor, overhead, equipment, logistics, raw materials, and supplier margin.
• Create scenario models to support negotiation strategies and value‑lever prioritization.
• Manage enterprise spend analytics, including spend cube ownership, classification integrity, and KPI reporting.
• Develop and maintain executive‑level Power BI/Tableau dashboards covering spend, inflation impacts, contract performance, supplier risk signals, market exposure, and category KPIs.
• Partner with Finance to validate baselines, quantify savings/benefits, and improve accuracy of Procurement performance reporting.
• Support major sourcing events with RFx content development, evaluation criteria, financial models, and benchmarking.
• Provide fact‑based negotiation support including price curves, market benchmarks, cost‑driver analysis, and non‑lowest‑bid justification evidence.
• Ensure sourcing events (RFx or panel mini‑bids) incorporate market intelligence, risk signals, and should‑cost insights.
• Build and maintain supplier risk dashboards covering financial health, HSE data, geographic exposure, performance trends, and concentration risk.
• Develop early‑warning indicators to identify supply disruption risk and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support Supplier Governance Board reviews with risk summaries and strategic recommendations.
• Drive continuous improvement of analytics, dashboards, RFx templates, and data architecture.
• Collaborate with procurement systems (S2P/eSourcing/CLM) to enhance data quality, visibility, and reporting.
• Standardize intelligence processes, automate reporting workflows, and develop repeatable models that scale across categories.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Supply Chain, Finance, IT or a related field or equivalent Procurement Contracting/Purchasing experience.
• 7+ years in Procurement Market Intelligence, Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, or Supply‑Market Economics.
• Deep experience in should‑cost modeling, price modeling, predictive analytics, and market forecasting.
• Proficiency with Power BI/Tableau, advanced Excel; SQL/Python a strong advantage.
• Experience working with procurement systems (S2P, eSourcing, CLM) and leveraging system data for insights.
• Strong financial acumen, understanding of commercial models, cost structures, and TCO methodology.
• Ability to advise senior executives with clarity, credibility, and strategic judgment.
• Exceptional communication and data‑storytelling skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in advanced analytics, financial modeling, and data interpretation.
• Experience supporting sourcing or category management initiatives through data-driven insights.
• Strong understanding of contract management principles, procurement policies, and supplier performance metrics.
• Experience working in a centrally led procurement model with enterprise-wide scope.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time to support operations across multiple facilities in the U.S.

Tech Stack

• Python
• SQL
• Tableau

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility
• Health care
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off