Procurement Analytics Lead
TLDR
Serve as the single source of truth for procurement performance data while driving value communication to leadership through analytics and insights across finance and business functions.
Procurement savings tracking & reporting
Track and report procurement savings across categories and initiatives
Build and maintain spend dashboards and recurring reports across all categories — IT/SaaS, Corp Services, Contingent Workforce, Facilities
CFO-ready reporting — Produce monthly and quarterly spend summaries with variance analysis, commentary, and forward pipeline estimates
Audit readiness — Maintain evidence trails for the spend incurred; support internal audit and SOC 2 reviews on procurement controls
Vendor performance management
Scorecard framework — Design and operationalize a vendor performance scorecard covering SLA, quality, risk, responsiveness, and strategic value
QBR support — Prepare data packages for quarterly business reviews with Tier 1 vendors; track action items and commitments
Risk dashboards — Monitor vendor health signals such as concentration risk, financial stability, geographic exposure, and surface issues proactively
Onboarding metrics — Track vendor onboarding cycle times and flag bottlenecks; partner with the Vendor Management team on data quality
Spend analytics & category intelligence
Spend cube ownership — Build and maintain the category taxonomy, classify spend into a clean, consistent hierarchy
Maverick spend analysis — Identify off-contract and unapproved spend; quantify the leakage and support remediation
Category benchmarks — Research market price benchmarks for key categories; feed insights into sourcing strategy
Demand analytics — Analyze PO patterns, requisition volumes, and approval cycle times to identify process inefficiencies
Strategic initiative & pipeline tracking
Milestone tracking — Own the project status layer: RAG indicators, due dates, owners, and blockers; keep the Procurement updates current
Savings realization bridge — Connect initiative completion to realized savings; close the loop between pipeline and actuals in the tracker
Executive decks — Build the monthly Procurement Leadership Review deck; own the narrative, data accuracy, and visual quality
Cross-functional collaboration & stakeholder reporting
Finance partnership — Provide procurement accruals data, support month-end close, reconcile PO vs. invoice variances
Business stakeholder reporting — Deliver category spend summaries to department heads; support budget planning with historical spend data
IT systems liaison — Work with IT and Finance Systems to ensure clean data flows from ERP/P2P tools into reporting layers
Systems, automation & self-service analytics
BI platform ownership — Own the procurement analytics layer in Power BI / Tableau / Looker — build, maintain, and iterate on dashboards
Automation — Eliminate manual reporting through scripting and scheduled refreshes; target 80% of recurring reports running automatically
8 years in procurement analytics, spend analysis, supply chain reporting, or a closely adjacent Finance/BI role
Demonstrated experience building savings trackers, vendor scorecards, and spend analytics from scratch — not just maintaining inherited models
Technical skills: Advanced Excel / Google Sheets (pivot models, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, dynamic arrays), SQL (comfortable writing and optimizing queries against ERP and P2P data), and Tableau.
Prior exposure to a SaaS or high-growth technology company strongly preferred
Experience presenting to senior leadership (CFO, COO, VP level); comfortable fielding questions and defending methodology under pressure
Track record of working across Finance, Legal, IT, and business functions — not just within procurement
Bachelor’s degree in Technology or Engineering is a plus
Experience working in a global organization with peers in multiple countries and time zones, and possessing strong stakeholder management skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and interact with senior leadership.
Extremely detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to balance multiple projects and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
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- Founded
- Founded 2018
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
- Total raised
- $60M raised