Procurement Analytics Manager

SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE
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The Procurement Analytics team within Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) enables data-driven decision-making by delivering clear analytics and reporting across team operations, vendor master data, vendor spend, source-to-pay processes, and travel & expense (T&E) workflows. The team's objective is to improve data quality, insights, and transparency to streamline procurement processes, enhance sourcing decisions, mitigate risk, and strengthen cross-functional collaboration. Key partners include Finance (FP&A leads forecasting and budgeting), Accounting, IT, various Business Units, and within SS&P department to implement spend management strategies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Analytics Strategy & Execution

• Support maintaining the SS&P master data to ensure data integrity, visibility, and actionable insights throughout the vendor lifecycle, including onboarding, classification, spend analysis, and relationship management.
• Perform checks to ensure record accuracy and compliance. Collaborate with Procurement colleagues to resolve data issues.
• Conduct data-driven analysis of spend to improve visibility and support procurement decisions.
• Contribute and assist in making data improvements for classification, integrity, and enrichment.
• Contribute to standardizing team metrics & reporting.
• Manage dashboards to track team performance metrics.
• Participate in innovation to foster continuous improvements.

Spend Management & Strategic Insights

• Help colleagues integrate financial analytics outputs into daily workflow by supporting to adoption
• Provide data-driven financial analysis to inform vendor negotiations and category decisions.
• Analyze spend data to identify cost-saving opportunities and risks; provide actionable insights for sourcing decisions.
• Support sourcing colleagues with market research analysis
• Maintain integrity of procurement master data throughout the vendor engagement lifecycle for reliable reporting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Change Management

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure effective use of procurement master data, spend, and T&E data.
• Support change management strategies to drive stakeholder adoption of data attributes and reporting tools.
• Support change management strategies to drive stakeholder adoption and leadership alignment.
• Assist in tracking vendor expenses, change orders, accruals, and forecasts to ensure data integrity.

Process Optimization & Data Integration

• Assist in implementing solutions that enhance efficiency, improve data accuracy, and strengthen analytics capabilities by supporting configuration, testing, and documentation efforts
• Partner with SS&P Systems team to enable data integrations and upgrades supporting master data management.
• Assist in automating reports
• Deliver training and problem-solving assistance to other team members.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• No supervisory responsibilities.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE &

SKILLS:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 7 years of related experience; or
• Associate's degree and 9 years of experience; or
• Equivalent combination of education and years of experience

Experience:

• Experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech is preferred.
• Hands-on experience in outside spend analytics desirable.
• Familiarity with Ariba, SAP S4 Hana, including in vendor master and procurement related modules preferred.
• Experience with Tableau or equivalent reporting applications preferred.
• Intermediate Excel experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Intermediate technical foundation in financial spend and business process analytics and methodologies.
• Intermediate knowledge of applicable financial regulations (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, GAAP).
• Advanced understanding of the necessity of Vendor Master and PO metadata.
• Familiarity with financial and operational processes including, but not limited to budgeting, accruals, forecasting, financial analyses, financial reporting, capital expenditures, invoicing, payment terms, and purchase requisitions/purchase orders.
• Intermediate skills in MS Office suite of applications.
• Intermediate analytical and problem-solving skills to address challenges in a collaborative environment.
• Intermediate understanding of procurement functions to actively contribute to process improvements.
• Intermediate to advanced demonstration of integrity, ownership, and a results-driven mindset.
• Must have strong ability to focus on details and provide high-quality deliverables.
• Intermediate ability to balance teamwork with independent initiative.
• Intermediate ability to communicate with clarity, professionalism, and influence.
• Intermediate to advanced skills in customer service and prioritization in dynamic environments.
• Intermediate to advanced skills to cultivate productive partnerships across stakeholders and vendors.
• General understanding of drug discovery and development.
• Must embrace Exelixis' core values:
  Be Exceptional, Excel for Patients, and Exceed Together.

Work Environment/Physical Demands:

Our office is a modern, open-plan space…