PROCUREMENT ANALYST, COE JOB DETAILS | EDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE BRANDS, LLC

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Our family of over  25 personal care brands serves people in more than  50 countries.
We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work.
Our pledge goes beyond our products, with our fundamental value of  People First  guiding us to foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.
The Global Procurement- Center of Excellence (COE) is a high visibility team within Edgewell’s Global Procurement department.
The COE’s focus is to enable Procurement to provide a competitive advantage to EPC.
The COE engages with category procurement in a highly collaborative-interactive model to enable sourcing strategies, risk management & developing “Best in Class” processes and procedures in conjunction with the Global Procurement Leadership team and other support functions (e.
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IT, Finance).
Focus areas include but are not limited to Data & Spend Analytics, Category sourcing, Supplier Relationship & Risk Management, Sustainability and Procurement Systems.
This Procurement COE analyst role will focus on analyzing the spend and material portfolios to bring actionable insights to the category teams to enable their strategies and sourcing decisions.
This role will also support the manager in the reporting needed for ethical and responsible sourcing.
Additionally, the analyst will support any P2P process enhancements in addition to day-to-day transactions.
This position is expected to liaise closely with procurement category managers globally across multiple geographies and work cultures to understand process bottlenecks related to SAP price management and support / lead efforts for process improvements.
This position expects Edgewell’s ‘Future Fit’ behavior and helps in career shaping and advancement.
Accountabilities Pricelist Management.
Create and maintain process documentation to support procurement pricelist maintenance and best practices Develop structured pricelists/templates for future updates – develop macros to facilitate periodic price updates Support broader procurement organization by maintaining accurate pricing in system – admin of programs to mass update info records and purchase orders ensuring correct prices Understand impact of commodity trends on prices and help team challenge price change requests SAP Data Cleansing.
Ensuring data cleanliness of Purchasing Info Records (PIRs) and Source Lists – monitoring reports to appropriately block old info and create new where needed Checking and updating specific information on PIRs, including Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ), Country of Origin, Lead time, validity date, etc Workflow Automation.
Automating repetitive analysis, tasks and processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
Collaborating with team members to identify areas for automation and implementing solutions.
Data Analytics and Reporting.
Leverage data, analytics, specifications, complexity and benchmarking to identify opportunities.
Connect system analytics and draw insights for spend, specifications, spend per SKU, specs per family etc.
Build and maintain saving tracker reports Support development of tools, process and Dashboard/scorecard reporting globally and regionally to report PPV (Purchase price variance), CIP (Cost Improvement Project), ABP (Annual Budget Planning) etc.
Creating Reports and updating current reports for the Procurement Team to utilize and help drive insights into categories to support their strategies.
This can be either in Excel, SAP Business Objects, or PowerBI.
Policies & Procedures Works with procurement category leads to enable initiatives (as directed by the Head of the Global Procurement COE and or the Global Head of Procurement) in the S2P cycle.
Supports the Manager COE with complex or global process improvement projects from analytics to value creation opportunities.
Training & Development Develops internal training materials as required based on department and/or company initiatives and provides training sessions as needed.
Required Skills and Experience B.
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degree in Business (or other related degree programs), 3-5 years of experience in a business function such as Finance, Business Analytics, Procurement Operations or related field Highly self-motivated with the ability to drive change in a global organization with minimum supervision Strong Excel and database manipulation skills with the ability to create moderate to complex formulas Excellent PowerPoint skills, ability to present to all levels of the organization, including Senior Leadership Demonstrated knowledge of relevant technology systems including ERP, SAP, e-Procurement, Spend Analysis, and Contract Management Champions best practice processes, tools, and commitment to provide quality procurement products / customer service Analytical Curiosity.
Comfortable with and enjoys working in detailed data; logical, creative, puzzle-solving mentality Influence.
Develop credibility and ability to sell recommendations at all levels of the organization; deliver objective, data-driven solutions with appropriate business perspective communicated in concise and understandable fashion Team Leadership.
Ability to organize & guide project teams to deliver process improvements Critical Thinking.
Ability to explore & evaluate broad potential solution sets and provide objective data-driven recommendations Collaboration.
Ability to identify stakeholders and create win-win situations with other functions; ability to work well with diverse, cross-functional stakeholders and team members Influence.
Develop credibility and ability to sell recommendations at all levels of the organization; deliver objective, data-driven solutions with appropriate business perspective communicated in concise and understandable fashion Ability to travel periodically (less than 20%)   Preferred Skills and Experience Experience with SAP transactions and reporting Experience with building dashboards and reporting in PowerBI Experience with process development, improvement, and training   Working Relationships Reports to Manager, Global Procurement COE Key relationships internally will include Procurement Leadership team and Procurement category managers, Global Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Research and Development, Sales, and Commercial.
External engagement, although limited but would include external service providers supporting Global Procurement and other functions   Work Environment Hybrid – Typically 2 days a week in the MX City office, 3 days a week work from home Ability to travel periodically (%) May be required to work non-core hours based on global department structure   #LI-DR1 #LI-INT   Edgewell is an equal opportunity employer.
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