Procurement Analyst

About the Role:

Gordon Food Service is seeking a highly skilled Procurement Analyst to join our team. As a key member of our Indirect Procurement team, you will be responsible for driving the optimization of Source-to-Pay (S2P) processes and delivering a world-class experience for internal end users via S2P applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain exceptional data expertise and ensure strong data integrity.
• Lead indirect spend data mining efforts and collaborate with Indirect Category Managers, Lead Category Buyers, and stakeholders to uncover potential opportunities for new value creation.
• Assist and drive excellence in broader procurement objectives and initiatives through strategic thinking, process improvements, and data analysis.
• Develop and own S2P strategies and action plans related to supplier enablement, catalog development, contract management, data governance, and user adoption.
• Influence stakeholders and suppliers to ensure S2P transformation success (supplier on-boarding and adoption of SAP Ariba platform, catalog usage, availability of sourcing data, etc.).
• Deliver a world-class user experience of the S2P application by providing outstanding buying support.
• Engage with application users frequently to resolve buying issues and provide further education/enhanced knowledge of the application and its processes.
• Engage internal IT team and/or SAP Ariba team to help solve technical issues.
• Accountable for collaboration with external partners (application teams, consulting partners, banking institutions) to drive success in supplier adoption campaigns.
• Deliver business continuity by ensuring suppliers are set up to transact with Gordon Food Service through S2P application; ensures the usage of preferred suppliers by filtering out supply options that aren't a network fit.
• Own direct contact with suppliers and follow through (collaborating with Finance for administrative on-boarding).
• Develop communication strategy and tactics to ensure engagement with key stakeholder groups including GFS Operations teams.
• Develop effective tools and reporting (to be used in Leadership-level report-outs) to track progress toward S2P transformation goals.
• Accountable for data collection and analysis; Owns analysis of indirect spend (data mining) to categorize spend and identify potential new category review opportunities.
• Owns monitoring of PCard purchasing activity to identify potential indirect compliance issues (purchases through non-preferred suppliers) and collaborates with internal stakeholders to address and remedy missed opportunities, escalating to Leadership when needed.
• Develop effective tools and reporting (to be used in Leadership-level report-outs) to track PCard spend and performance against rebate goals.

Requirements:

• Technology - advanced Excel knowledge (ie. Ability to communicate, collaborate, and learn from other departments to ensure continuity of work and project coordination).
• Builds knowledge of industry trends and new advancements specific to Procure to Pay cycle and PCard best practices.
• Refers to policies and practices for guidance.
• Bachelor degree required Accounting/Finance, Supply Chain or related.
• Three years previous experience in any of supply chain, finance, or applicable equivalent with demonstrated ability to develop business acumen in previous role(s).

About Gordon Food Service:

Gordon Food Service is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment, or in terms or conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco-free. Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and drug tests all employees.