Job Description:
Marketing and Sales Procurement Analytics Manager
Mars is investing heavily in Procurement Category Analytics! This is a newly created global team of Regional Category Analytics Managers, each aligned to a specific Indirect procurement category, who will have a strong bias for decision-making rooted in data and analytics. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a team that will have a daily impact on company success.
The primary focus of this team will be on strategy execution to deliver long term competitive advantage, specifically by using quantitative methods to derive actionable insights and outcomes. This role will own overall project leadership in support of spend analytics to identify sourcing opportunities and pipeline development for the Marketing and Sales indirect procurement category. This new role is required to identify value and cost reduction opportunities by leveraging data to support fact-based decisions within the demand category, identify better purchasing options and improve reporting accuracy, in partnership with the regional Demand Commercial Director(s). In addition, this role is required to provide valuable market intelligence to support demand buying decisions and processes, and to support the demand category to operate at best-in-class levels.
What are we looking for?
University degree (i.e., Bachelor) in engineering or business/ economics / finance / marketing / computer science
Advanced degree (i.e Masters) in Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, or MBA highly desired
5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and procurement experience; specifically in Marketing and Sales
5+ years of project leadership, including the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects that require frequent communication, organization and time management.
Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries.
In-depth understanding of best-in-class procurement practices (category management, bench marking, should-cost models, RFx)
Advanced analytical and financial skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.
Fluent in English
What would be your key responsibilities?
The role(s) will be supporting the Global Demand (Marketing and Sales) Procurement team by providing business and market intelligence, management of data and analytics, and tracking/reporting of metrics:
Typical internal analyses and tasks include spend analysis and forecasting, savings analysis, supplier information gathering and analysis, pricing and contract analytics, benchmarking, compliance to sourcing strategies and tender bid analysis Typical external analyses include market, economic, and other research data, inflation, productivity analysis, supplier identification
Conduct macroeconomic and category spend analysis utilizing data from Mars’s spend analytics tools and external market data.
Partner with Category managers to conduct opportunity assessment and stakeholder engagement to expand procurement influence into new spend areas
Conduct market and supplier research to enhance and inform sourcing and negotiation strategies
Cull insights from the analysis, consolidation and scoring of vendor proposals, and make recommendations to Category Managers and business partners.
Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and bench-marking analysis.
They will do this by using data visualization tools on complex data sets and interpreting mathematical models such as graphs, tables, metrics, and schematics to provide insights to Category teams, Business partners, and BD leadership
Manage projects related to KPI development/improvement.
Prepare recommendations and alternatives based on analysis of the business to standardize or make processes more efficient and/or reduce costs.
This role will play an important role in supporting complex strategic sourcing projects, including market and supplier research, RFP project management, and analytics support. Continually challenge the status quo, think differently and push boundaries.
Work with the regional category team on the annual sourcing plan
Develop and maintain standardized performance metrics and tools that the regional buyers and use and leverage
What can you expect from Mars?
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including excellent pension.
Pet-friendly offices, where your pets’ enjoyment is as high on our agenda as yours.
A company that understands the importance of a work-life balance.
The chance to take hold of your own career and develop personally and professionally.
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.