Procurement Operations Analyst

Procurement Operations Analyst

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
Northeastern University's Procure to Pay Department seeks someone who:

• Is passionate about delivering on-time, at-cost, and low risk procurement operations.
• Revels in consistently exceeding customers' expectations.
• Wants responsibility for managing day-to-day Procurement activities, and thrives when sustaining value and delivering on-time services within Procure to Invoice and Vendor / Supplier Management workflows.
• Is experienced with indirect procurement and desires to continuously improve operational efficiency and effectiveness and will help delight our customers.
• Speaks all things data, and delivers outcomes via metrics such as cost savings (avoidance, price, total cost), key performance indicators (KPI), and service level agreements (SLA).
• Demonstrates great agility in day-to-day activities, thrives when delivering on-time and at-cost procurement services, and desires a supporting role in the ongoing Procure to Pay (P2P) transformation.
• Has an amazing level of intellectual curiosity, builds strong coalitions, possess strong financial acumen, and continuously demonstrates high degrees of ownership, integrity, and attention to detail.
• Is an independent self-starter who thrives in connecting people and ideas to data and outcomes, and has a strong entrepreneurial drive.
• Excels at communication and is comfortable with playing a critical role within a highly visible organization.
• Thrives when creating better customer outcomes, and are highly accountable to results.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day procurement activities within assigned commodities / thresholds
• Support development and execution of a P2P performance management and transparency initiatives, to include reporting and dashboards for service level agreements (SLA's) and key performance indicators (KPI's), P2P team performance scorecards, performance benchmarking, OKR reporting, and customer operations reviews / outreach
• Facilitate the development, implementation, and maintenance of processes, policies, guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures, and Business Operating Principles

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience or BA / BS and a minimum of 2 years relevant experience or MBA / MS
• Demonstrated experience in day-to-day activity management within the Procure to Invoice and Supplier Management / Vendor Management workflows, e.g., requisition to purchase order, requirements definition, solicitation and bids, negotiation, source selection, legal review, contract award, vendor onboarding, performance management approach and business reviews, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize data to identify opportunities, continuously improve performance, and successfully operate within a data informed performance management framework (e.g., meet cost savings goals, efficiency measures, procurement administrative lead time / throughput service level agreements, and misc. procurement operations key performance indicators)
• Familiarity with government and state / local procurement regulations, commercial procurement best practices, and procure to pay savings levers and techniques
• Globally minded, self-motivated, flexible, and creative operations analyst, with ability to prioritize, multi-task, and work horizontally and vertically across a decentralized organization to drive results
• Ability to lead without authority and build “trusted advisor” relationships by delivering sound technical analysis, customer empathy, and data informed decision-making
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with ability to lead, interact with, influence, resolve conflict and drive decisions / accountability among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines
• Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment, while ensuring the organization is able to effectively and efficiently navigate transitions
• Experience and expertise building reporting tools and executive dashboards utilizing leading Microsoft and Tableau platforms
• Knowledge of Procure to Pay (P2P), Procurement Operations, Spend Diagnostic, and B2B business marketplace technologies a benefit
• National Contract Management Association (NCMA) Certified
• Commercial Contract Manager (CCMA) or other relevant industry certification preferred, CCMA certification required no later than 12 months after start date OR as soon as eligible if MBA / MS hire
• Demonstrated expertise of Microsoft business programs (e.g., Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point)
• Familiarity and experience utilizing data warehouse, data analytics, and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos, SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI)

Preferred Qualifications:

Salary Grade:
51

Additional Information:
This position will require a criminal background check

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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