Technical Sourcing Business Analyst (Coupa)

Role: Technical Sourcing Business Analyst (Coupa)

Contract Length: TBD

Start: Mid-January

Location: Hybrid (Stillwater MN)

Rate: $53-$66/hour W2, dependent on skills and qualifications

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Sourcing Business Analyst (Coupa) to join our Procurement & Sourcing Technology team. You will serve as the functional–technical bridge for Coupa-driven sourcing and procure-to-pay solutions, owning end-to-end design, configuration, integrations, data quality, and testing. The ideal candidate combines deep procurement/sourcing domain knowledge with practical Coupa administration and integration experience (APIs, cXML, SFTP), ensuring scalable, compliant, and user-friendly solutions across suppliers, categories, and business units.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design & Configuration (Coupa)

• Lead functional and technical solution design for Coupa Sourcing, Procurement, Supplier Management (SIM/CSP), and Contracts/CLM as applicable.
• Perform hands-on configuration (business rules, approval chains, commodity codes, sourcing templates, event types, RFx questionnaires, scoring models, user roles/permissions, custom fields, forms).
• Optimize catalogs, price lists, and contract compliance; drive policy automation (commodity-based routing, tolerance thresholds, 3-way match, exception handling).

Integrations & Data (ERP / Third-Party)

• Define and manage integrations between Coupa and ERP (e.g., SAP/Oracle/D365/NetSuite), HRIS, finance, risk/compliance, and supplier data sources.
• Design interface specifications (REST APIs, cXML for POs/invoices, SFTP file drops, OCI/punchout, JSON/XML payloads); own mapping, transformations, and error-handling strategies.
• Coordinate with integration engineers on authentication (OAuth, SSO/SAML), middleware patterns, and data orchestration; maintain interface catalogs and sequence diagrams.
• Lead data quality and migration activities (supplier master, commodities, contracts, catalogs, UOMs, GLs, cost centers); define validation rules and reconciliation checks.

Testing, Release, and Operability

• Create test strategies and scripts for unit, system, integration, and UAT; manage defect triage and traceability from requirements to test evidence.
• Establish non-functional guardrails (performance, scalability, reliability) and regression packs for ongoing releases; coordinate sandbox-to-prod release management.
• Implement monitoring & controls (error queues, failed transactions, supplier onboarding workflows, audit logs); draft runbooks and support playbooks.

Reporting & Analytics

• Define and validate reporting requirements for sourcing events, savings realization, supplier performance, compliance, and spend analytics.
• Partner with data teams to build dashboards (e.g., Power BI/Tableau) and KPIs (cycle time, adoption, event throughput, contract coverage, exception rates).

Stakeholder Engagement & Governance

• Partner closely with sourcing leaders, category managers, finance, and IT to align technical delivery with sourcing strategies and compliance.
• Drive fit–gap analyses, backlog grooming, and Agile ceremonies; own stories/acceptance criteria; facilitate design decisions and change management.
• Mentor peers on Coupa configuration, integration patterns, and BA best practices; contribute to standards, templates, and reusable assets.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Experience

• 5 years as a Business Analyst in sourcing/procurement or finance technology.
• 2 years hands-on with Coupa (configuration integrations); experience across Sourcing/Procurement/SIM/CLM preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in integration concepts: REST APIs, cXML (PO/Invoice), OCI/punchout, SFTP, JSON/XML, authentication (OAuth, SSO/SAML).
• Proven delivery of requirements, process modeling (BPMN), data mapping, and end-to-end testing for enterprise systems.

Skills

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication; ability to lead technical workstreams and decision forums.
• Practical experience with data analysis (SQL basics), and building reporting requirements for analytics tools (Power BI/Tableau).
• Familiarity with Agile/hybrid methodologies, backlog management, story writing, and acceptance criteria.
• Process design skills for Source-to-Pay (S2P): RFx/RFQ/RFP, events, scoring, negotiations, award, contracting, catalogs, requisitions, POs, invoicing, and supplier onboarding.

Preferred

• Coupa certifications (e.g., Platform, Sourcing, Procure-to-Pay, CLM).
• Experience integrating with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite).
• Knowledge of supplier risk/compliance, diversity reporting, and spend classification.
• Exposure to middleware (MuleSoft, Boomi, SAP PO/CI) and release/change management.

Why Join Us

• Own technical design and delivery of enterprise-grade Coupa solutions that materially impact sourcing performance and compliance.
• Collaborate with high-performing sourcing, finance, and IT teams in a dynamic environment.
• Opportunity to standardize patterns, mentor peers, and influence S2P technology strategy.