Procurement Spend Analytics Expert

Role purpose

Are you passionate about turning complex data into strategic business value? As a Spend Analytics Expert, you will help leading organizations gain visibility, control, and actionable insights from their procurement spend.

You will transform fragmented procurement data into a trusted foundation for decision-making, identify opportunities for cost optimization, and enable more effective sourcing and supplier management strategies. Additionally, you will play a key role in helping clients unlock measurable value from their procurement operations.

Key responsibilities

Client Engagement & Delivery

• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, helping them gain visibility and control over their procurement spend.
• Consolidate spend data from multiple client systems into a single, trusted view of procurement activity.
• Lead spend data collection, cleansing, enrichment, and classification activities across diverse data sources.
• Partner with clients as a trusted advisor to design, implement spend cube integrations, ensuring high-quality spend data
• Deliver actionable analyses that identify savings opportunities, supplier consolidation potential, and compliance improvements.

Spend Classification & Supplier Harmonization

• Apply AI-enabled tools and analytics to accelerate spend classification and improve category visibility.
• Harmonize supplier information across different systems to create a consistent and reliable supplier baseline.
• Improve the quality, consistency, and completeness of procurement data to support better business decisions.
• Continuously enhance classification accuracy and insight generation through data-driven approaches and best practices.

Strategic Insights & Solution Design

• Transform complex procurement data into clear business insights and sourcing recommendations.
• Support category strategies, opportunity assessments, supplier negotiations, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Identify spend patterns, supplier concentration risks, and value creation opportunities across client organizations.
• Help clients establish a trusted procurement data foundation that enables fact-based decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Data Science, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years of professional experience in data analytics, management consulting, or operations strategy.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, SQL, and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik etc.
• Ability to translate complex data into simple, strategic business insights.
• Experience working with large datasets; proficiency in data cleansing, classification, and transformation
• Familiarity with procurement concepts is advantageous but not required.
• Excellent client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to work across multiple industries and procurement categories.

Desired experience

• Experience with spend analytics, spend classification, supplier harmonization, and procurement data management.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled procurement solutions and modern analytics platforms.
• Knowledge of procurement taxonomies such as UNSPSC and category management frameworks.
• Understanding of procurement systems such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Jaggaer, or Sievo.