Why Is This Job For You
As Procurement Analytics Manager, you will enable the development of 3‑year Category Strategies and support commercial activity across Energy, Indirects, and Manufacturing through high‑quality analytics, insights, and reporting. The position contributes directly to optimising tail suppliers, enhancing self‑service analytical solutions, and driving performance across key Procurement categories.
Reporting to the Procurement Excellence Manager – Commercial, the role leads a team of two and partners closely with Category teams across the Procurement Function. Core responsibilities include overseeing the delivery of commercial business analytics, guiding the formation of insights and recommendations, and ensuring the effective execution of technical, platform, and BI reporting tasks.
This position serves as a key contributor to strengthening analytical excellence within Procurement and supporting data‑driven strategic decision‑making across the organisation.
You Will
Develop and grow relationships with stakeholders, suppliers, and industry bodies / peer organizations for deeper insights into needs and capabilities
Establish a position to advise on how to gain greater value through brilliant business partnership
Deliver research and insights to support category strategy development and sourcing strategies
Collate external benchmarking insights from peer companies / industry bodies and translate into actionable insights to shape best practice strategies across various categories in scope
Generate, analyse, and draw quality insights from large, complex data sets from multiple internal and external procurement and business sources, to build and evolve analytics capabilities that allow regular review and improvement of strategies
Identify, align and extract the market intelligence required to help drive the business forward
Collaborate with the Procurement Services Hub team to develop, test and deploy Category KPI dashboards. Identify and drive changes where system changes are needed to improve our dashboards and underlying performance insights
Monitor data accuracy and lead projects to improve related data governance and quality standards for the categories in scope, and drive improvement in the completeness and accuracy of data, including PSA continuous improvement solutions
Support implementation of data collection processes, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
Be creative and pragmatic in identifying and quantifying opportunities for improvement
Monitor user feedback and satisfaction with quality of KPI insights / dashboards
Drive improvements in forensic spend analytics for categories in scope, identifying areas of non-controlled spend where procurement can drive greater value
Partnering with technology and finance to ensure we leverage the procurement technologies we already have to enhance effectiveness and improve outcomes
Build relationships and leverage third-party data sources to create quality insights
Project Management at pace of key business priorities through leadership with various cross-functional stakeholder groups
Builds partnerships and maintains strong relationships with the ability to listen, interpret, influence, negotiate, inspire, and challenge
Interpret and succinctly communicate insights and findings from analysis and test and learn opportunities to optimise business processes
Identify and share improved ways of working to increase output and process simplification
You Have
Bachelor's Degree Preferred
Experience in the usage of sourcing platforms and optimisation tools.
Graduate or equivalent qualification and member of professional body, e.g., CIPS
Project Management, Continuous Improvement (e.g. Lean, 6 Sigma), Change Management. Procurement / Purchasing background ideal
At least 5-8 years relevant experience at the same or similar level
Fluency in English
Fluency in Polish is an advantage
The ability to speak another European language would be an advantage.