Senior Analyst, Procurement Activation

The Senior Analyst, Procurement Activation is responsible for providing analytical, project management, and tactical execution support to create a reliable and flexible supplier network with an overall lower cost structure and improved efficiency. The Senior Analyst works cross-functionally and supports efforts to integrate category strategies with Supply Chain functions including Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain Planning, and Distribution.

As a member of the Procurement Activation team, the Senior Analyst's role is to collaborate with procurement category managers to activate key components of category strategies and process improvements resulting in improved supplier quality and service performance. What you will do: Lead strategic efforts, internally and externally, to improve supplier service and material availability Collaborate with manufacturing, planning, and sourcing managers, to reduce non-conformance incidents, and improve fulfillment rates

Serve as an escalation point for manufacturing and planning within the Material Service Alert (MSA) process to secure on-time deliveries

Partner with planning, manufacturing, and continuous improvement teams, to eliminate waste in PO processing and goods receipt processes

Develop inventory monitoring and capacity assessment tools to proactive identify risk

Evaluate procure-to-pay transactional trends and lead process improvement initiatives to address root causes

Support invoice reconciliation and resolution

Support vendor inventory management in close collaboration with materials planning and sourcing managers

Utilizes procurement tools including SAP, Ariba, Celonis, Cognos, to interact with data and extrapolate insights Serve as direct materials procure-to-pay process subject matter expert Follow all KDP policies and procedures