Procurement Analyst

Procurement Analyst :

85.00 / hr

Onsite : Beaverton, OR

2 year assignment

Buy-Sell Capabilities Lead

This person will be working on a team with both internal stakeholders and an external vendor to drive process definition and process efficiency. This work will involve lots of cross-functional meetings, clarifying understanding with multiple stakeholders who have differing opinions, and being able to communicate these findings back to leadership and a vendor. This person should be process-oriented and a data-driven decision maker. This person should also have some creativity and ability to think "big-picture" in designing future business processes to meet stakeholder needs. This person will also serve as point-of-contact to support a key product engine for the team.

DESIRED SKILLSETS & EXPERIENCE :

• Project management skills; ability to set and follow a timeline and assess risk
• Comfortable communicating and representing the organization and project with internal stakeholders, as well as external stakeholders
• Ability to drive clarity and work effectively with multiple stakeholders with competing viewpoints and priorities
• Ability to compare / contrast complex options and provide a well-thought-out recommendation
• Strong team collaboration skills
• Structured thinking skills and a process-oriented mindset
• Ability to distill complex concepts and processes into simplified messages
• Experience driving a large initiative or project preferred
• Experience working in a complex matrix organization preferred
• Ability to work with teammates in other time zones (Asia)
• The nature of the work is focused on the monetary affairs of the company.
• Proactively works with Factory, Developers, Category Team, and Costing Team to review and interpret factory cost breakdown and its impact on the total weighted margin.
• Provides and performs scenario analysis regarding Materials, component, technology, productivity, Gross Price Margin, and foreign exchange changes to help the team achieve target gross price margin per season according to the seasonal critical dates.
• Review historical information and models to prepare and present information to the category team and Costing counterpart to help establish FOB and factory negotiation.
• Effectively communicates pertinent costing model information to the category and costing organization. Including FOB confirmation and tracking progress against key deadlines and metrics : FOB Target vs. Actual FOB, FOB on time,
• Lean savings with the factory, category, and / or Liaison office. tracking progress against key deadlines and metrics : FOB Target vs. Actual FOB, FOB on time, Lean savings with the factory, category, and / or Liaison office.

Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience Note : One of the following alternatives may be accepted : PhD or Law 3 yrs; Masters 4 yrs; Associates degree 6 yrs; High School 7 yrs.

ll listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Benefits : (employee contribution)

Salary : $85