Lead Analyst, Strategic Sourcing Analytics

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Position Overview

The Lead Analyst, Strategic Sourcing Analytics is a key role for the Procurement function that will primarily support the Strategic Sourcing Team across spend data analytics, category strategies and related continuous improvement projects. This role is a subject matter expert collaborating closely with Strategic Sourcing team members and other Procurement analytics team members. This role is responsible for leading and communicating a wide range of analyses to help inform strategies to support crucial cost savings, risk mitigation and supplier performance improvement for Exact Sciences, among other objectives.

Essential Duties

Include but are not limited to the following:

• Support Strategic Sourcing in developing strategies and making key strategic decisions.
• Build, maintain and expertly communicate analysis, models, and dashboards to support spend data analytics, category strategies, sourcing events, process optimization, and performance management processes.
• Support Strategic Sourcing and Procurement wide continuous improvement programs through data analytics and reporting and providing subject matter expert advisory.
• Support fact-based decision-making and measurement and reporting of key strategic sourcing performance indicators, such as cost savings and spend under active management.
• Track and analyze commodity, currency and economic data to identify trends, issues, and opportunities for improvement to spend category strategies.
• Evaluate the economic and/or operational impact of new sourcing events and projects.
• Effectively compile and communicate findings to leadership and stakeholders verbally, visually, and in writing.
• Foster and build collaborative, productive and proactive business partnerships across Strategic Sourcing, Procurement and other data analytics team members across the company.
• Perform routine and ad hoc reporting and analysis.
• Strong analytical skills, business intuition, and ability to build consensus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to operate in a matrixed cross-cultural and cross-functional environment.
• Adaptable, open to change, and able to work in ambiguous situations and respond to new information or unexpected circumstances.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 100% of a typical working day.
• Ability to travel 10% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Math, Science, Engineering, Finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant business experience.
• 3+ years of direct business analytics experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with data visualization software, such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience with SAP and/or Coupa.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with simulation and/or AI-related software for modeling.
• Experience with computer programming in R, SAS, Python, SQL, or another language.
• Direct experience within laboratory, healthcare and/or molecular diagnostics industries.
• Experience with application of statistical methods for data analysis.
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma and statistical process control.
• Working understanding of database design and data modeling.

Salary Range:

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