Manager, Procurement Analytics & Governance

Serve as the central owner within the procurement and logistics organization for pipeline program management, spend and savings alignment, and reporting integrity. Drive cross-functional accountability, strengthen data accuracy and trust, and proactively identify risks, leakage, and process gaps while establishing scalable, sustainable processes.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Finance Partnership & Reporting Integrity

• Act as the primary procurement contact for finance
• Reconcile system-generated reports with finance reporting and procurement expectations 
• Serve as go-to resource for procurement spend and savings reporting
• Identify and resolve data discrepancies and reporting gaps
• Monitor and minimize price leakage

Pipeline Program Management

• Own savings pipeline as a cross-functional program
• Drive timely updates across procurement, finance, and engineering
• Enforce deadlines and ensure stakeholder accountability
• Ensure sufficient project-level detail to support auditability, accuracy, and transparency
• Reduce manual burden on Commodity Managers through additional automation 

Governance & Leadership Visibility

• Lead regular pipeline and savings review cadences
• Provide clear visibility into performance, risks, and gaps
• Bridge current vs prior forecasts to explain key variances
• Consolidate and communicate risks and opportunities to leadership
• Support leadership inquiries with clear, data-backed insights

Issue Identification & Risk Mitigation

• Proactively identify data inconsistencies, process gaps, and reporting risks
• Troubleshoot cross-functional issues across procurement and finance
• Address root causes impacting accuracy, timing, and alignment
• Strengthen leadership confidence in savings and spend reporting

Process Improvement & Automation

• Reduce reliance on manual reporting, drive adoptions of automated solutions 
• Improve pipeline detail and structure to support audit readiness
• Redesign workflows to improve scalability, consistency, and efficiency

Key Business Challenges Addressed

• Manual, time-intensive reporting processes
• Insufficient pipeline detail for validation and audit
• Misalignment between procurement and finance
• Limited leadership confidence in reported savings