Senior Sourcing Analyst

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Job Title: Senior Staff Analyst, Sourcing

Pay rate: $60 Per hour

Location: San Jose, CA (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Type : W2 contract

Duration: 12 months

MUST HAVES:

• Need to be able to step into the sourcing manager roles, and have interest in doing so
• Experience in supplier selection, performance management, cost models, presentations
• Skilled in data analysis and presentation of results. Comfortable with data ambiguity and developing clarity across disparate systems.
• Experience leveraging AI for this scope.
• Ability to handle a high number of concurrent tasks in parallel. Example being launching multiple RFQs and should costs, and during the response time working on other analyzes and projects.
• Effective communication skills – written, oral, and presentations. Able to tell a story from data and effectively communicate with visuals.

Education:

Bachelors in Supply Chain, Analytics, or related business degrees.

Day to day :

• Analyze supplier performance details and trends
• Analyze internal and external cost details to identify opportunities and build strong data driven cases to support cost negotiations
• Create cost models for supplier price structures. Develop models detailing impact on variables to cost and profit including things on volume/spend growth and impact on material price changes
• Utilize AI in modeling and analysis
• Issue RFQs, facilitate & lead auctions, and generate should cost requests
• Analyze results from above and provide summary and recommendations to sourcing managers
• Develop negotiation fact sets and presentations to support supplier negotiations

Additional details:

• Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software or components
• Acquires and maintains understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends and supplier technology road maps
• Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy and discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiates refunds
• This is a highly specialized individual contributor role that requires deep expertise from a professional / technical thought leader in their respective field or discipline
• This position typically requires extensive experience in a specialized field and an advanced college degree or equivalent
• The role requires expertise within a discipline in a specialized field and provides technical guidance and direction for the area of specialization
• Requires strong analytical skills and evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual and qualitative information in complex or novel situations
• Requires the ability to filter, prioritize, analyze and validate complex and dynamic material
• Typically requires a degree or equivalent and a minimum of 6 or more years of experience
• Lead data analysis for cost reduction and supplier performance improvements
• Analyze supplier performance details and trends
• Analyze internal and external cost details to identify opportunities and build strong data driven cases to support cost negotiations
• Create cost models for supplier price structures, including variables impacting cost and profit such as volume/spend growth and material price changes
• Utilize AI in modeling and analysis
• Issue RFQs, facilitate and lead auctions, and generate should cost requests
• Analyze results and provide summaries and recommendations to sourcing managers
• Develop negotiation fact sets and presentations to support supplier negotiations
• 70% current products, 30% NPI
• Requirements
• Position must be located in San Jose, CA
• Intended as a pipeline for future sourcing manager roles with expectation and interest to step into such roles
• Experience in supplier selection, performance management, cost models, and presentations
• Skilled in data analysis and presenting results, with ability to handle data ambiguity across disparate systems
• Experience leveraging AI in this scope
• Ability to manage a high number of concurrent tasks in parallel (e.g., multiple RFQs, should cost analyses, and simultaneous projects)
• Strong written, oral, and presentation communication skills with the ability to tell a story using data and visuals