What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Analyst - Procurement Analytics position at United Airlines?
Description
Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000 connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.
Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.
Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together.
We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow at United across our collaborative Finance teams consisting of Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Treasury, Global Procurement, Controllership, Investor Relations and more. These teams provide the financial fuel that keeps our operation running from providing detailed analyses of financial planning, performance, and forecasts to managing our investments and financial strategies. Our Finance team plays an integral role in making our airline profitable and successful by meeting our financial goals.
The Global Procurement (GP) organization at United Airlines is responsible for sourcing and procuring goods and services, as well as managing relationships with third-party suppliers. Our role is critical in driving operational efficiency by overseeing the entire procure-to-pay process and ensuring the strategic acquisition of goods and services essential to the airline’s success. We are committed to optimizing costs, maintaining supplier quality, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and sustainability standards, all while supporting operational excellence and aligning with United’s broader business objectives.
As part of the Enablement Team within GP, we are seeking a Senior Analyst for Procurement Analytics. The role is critical in designing and optimizing data models to support business insights and decision-making. They analyze raw data, identify relationships, and develop structured models that ensure data consistency and efficiency. Working closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, and BI teams, they map source data, validate models, and maintain data governance standards. Their expertise enables the creation of scalable and accurate data structures, driving reliable analytics and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Data analytics and data modeling:
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
The base pay range for this role is $79,800.00 to $108,790.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation. WHQ00025021
Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000 connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.
Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.
Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together.
We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow at United across our collaborative Finance teams consisting of Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Treasury, Global Procurement, Controllership, Investor Relations and more. These teams provide the financial fuel that keeps our operation running from providing detailed analyses of financial planning, performance, and forecasts to managing our investments and financial strategies. Our Finance team plays an integral role in making our airline profitable and successful by meeting our financial goals.
The Global Procurement (GP) organization at United Airlines is responsible for sourcing and procuring goods and services, as well as managing relationships with third-party suppliers. Our role is critical in driving operational efficiency by overseeing the entire procure-to-pay process and ensuring the strategic acquisition of goods and services essential to the airline’s success. We are committed to optimizing costs, maintaining supplier quality, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and sustainability standards, all while supporting operational excellence and aligning with United’s broader business objectives.
As part of the Enablement Team within GP, we are seeking a Senior Analyst for Procurement Analytics. The role is critical in designing and optimizing data models to support business insights and decision-making. They analyze raw data, identify relationships, and develop structured models that ensure data consistency and efficiency. Working closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, and BI teams, they map source data, validate models, and maintain data governance standards. Their expertise enables the creation of scalable and accurate data structures, driving reliable analytics and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Data analytics and data modeling:
- Collect, cleanse, classify, and analyze procurement data from multiple sources.
- Develop conceptual, and logical data models.
- Assess data quality and completeness before designing the model.
- Analyze raw data to understand relationships, inconsistencies, and patterns.
- Identify trends and anomalies in data; and normalize and deformalize data base don business needs.
- Ensure completeness, accuracy, and reliability of procurement data for reporting and analytics.
- Support data engineering techniques, leveraging cutting-edge tools like SQL Coding, Excel spreadsheets, to add efficiency and automation to reports and analysis.
- Utilize data to provide meaningful insights and reports for stakeholders.
- Educate stakeholders on using procurement dashboards and reports and interpreting data insights.
- Automate data flows between procurement systems to enhance efficiency and reduce manual efforts.
- Contribute to identifying and setting key performance metrics and ways to measure them (e.g. cost savings, supplier performance, spend under management, contract compliance, and cycle times).
- Develop methods to calculate and report on key metrics, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
- Design and deliver periodic reports to stakeholders, highlighting performance trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
- Support initiatives that lead to automation and process enhancement.
- Monitor procurement performance through scorecards and assess adherence to SLAs and other contractual obligations.
- Support project/initiatives by creating trackers, task managers, and projects management tools.
- Lead or contribute to analytics-driven projects focused on system and data efficiency improvements.
- Assist in defining project scope, timelines, and deliverables to ensure alignment with business goals.
- Manage people relationships effectively with all key stakeholders across teams and divisions.
- Lead meetings, set agendas, organize memos and notes, and task tracking.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including IT, Business Operations, and Category Managers, to align data processes with procurement objectives.
- Support internal stakeholders by providing accurate insights and actionable recommendations.
- Engage with business partners to identify data gaps and propose solutions for improving analytics capabilities.
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
- 3-5 years of experience in data analytics, financial analytics, procurement analytics, or similar.
- Knowledge of Python, SQL, coding language, and data transformation tools.
- Experience with Power BI, and dashboards.
- Strong Excel and Excel-Macro.
- Experienced working with large datasets, ability to tell a story using data
- Passionate about data analytics and visionary for how it can be applied
- Understanding of procurement platforms such as Coupa, Ariba, Oracle ERP.
- Good understanding of data warehouses and designing data models
- Analytical mindset, strong problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and communicate complex ideas in a clear, concise manner.
- Good project management skills, and able to meet deadlines.
- Highly analytical with excellent problem-solving skills, with attention to details
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Highly structured with attention to details and result oriented.
- Master’s degree in quantitative fields such as: Data science, data engineering, information technology is a plus
- Experience in data modeling, database design, data integration, and data base management systems is a plus
The base pay range for this role is $79,800.00 to $108,790.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation. WHQ00025021
Salary : $79,800 - $108,790
