Manager, Procurement Analytics & Governance

Serve as the central owner within the procurement and logistics organization for pipeline program management, spend and savings alignment, and reporting integrity. Drive cross-functional accountability, strengthen data accuracy and trust, and proactively identify risks, leakage, and process gaps while establishing scalable, sustainable processes.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Finance Partnership & Reporting Integrity

- Act as the primary procurement contact for finance

- Reconcile system-generated reports with finance reporting and procurement expectations

- Serve as go-to resource for procurement spend and savings reporting

- Identify and resolve data discrepancies and reporting gaps

- Monitor and minimize price leakage

Pipeline Program Management

- Own savings pipeline as a cross-functional program

- Drive timely updates across procurement, finance, and engineering

- Enforce deadlines and ensure stakeholder accountability

- Ensure sufficient project-level detail to support auditability, accuracy, and transparency

- Reduce manual burden on Commodity Managers through additional automation

Governance & Leadership Visibility

- Lead regular pipeline and savings review cadences

- Provide clear visibility into performance, risks, and gaps

- Bridge current vs prior forecasts to explain key variances

- Consolidate and communicate risks and opportunities to leadership

- Support leadership inquiries with clear, data-backed insights

Issue Identification & Risk Mitigation

- Proactively identify data inconsistencies, process gaps, and reporting risks

- Troubleshoot cross-functional issues across procurement and finance

- Address root causes impacting accuracy, timing, and alignment

- Strengthen leadership confidence in savings and spend reporting

Process Improvement & Automation

- Reduce reliance on manual reporting, drive adoptions of automated solutions

- Improve pipeline detail and structure to support audit readiness

- Redesign workflows to improve scalability, consistency, and efficiency

Key Business Challenges Addressed

- Manual, time-intensive reporting processes

- Insufficient pipeline detail for validation and audit

- Misalignment between procurement and finance

- Limited leadership confidence in reported savings

Finance & Business Partnership

- Proven experience partnering with Finance on spend, savings, and forecasting alignment

- Strong financial acumen with ability to reconcile and validate complex datasets

- Demonstrated ownership of reporting integrity and audit-ready processes

Program & Pipeline Management

- Experience managing cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders (procurement, finance, engineering)

- Strong track record driving accountability, enforcing timelines, and ensuring high-quality deliverables

- Ability to structure and manage savings pipelines with sufficient detail for validation and transparency

Data & Analytics Expertise

- Advanced proficiency in data analysis, reporting tools, and financial systems (e.g., Excel, Power BI, ERP systems)

- Ability to identify discrepancies, data gaps, and reporting inconsistencies

- Experience building trusted, standardized reporting frameworks

Procurement & Savings Knowledge

- Solid understanding of procurement processes, cost drivers, and savings methodologies

- Experience tracking, validating, and reporting procurement savings and spend performance

- Familiarity with price leakage concepts and cost control mechanisms

Leadership & Communication

- Strong executive communication skills with ability to translate data into clear insights for leadership

- Experience leading review cadences (MBRs/QBRs) and presenting risks, gaps, and performance

- Ability to influence without authority across cross-functional teams

Problem Solving & Risk Management

- Proven ability to proactively identify risks, process gaps, and root cause issues

- Experience resolving complex cross-functional challenges