Category Analyst
Job in
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 30383, USA
Listed on 2026-05-31
Listing for:
Aptonet
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-05-31
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Data Analyst, Business Systems/ Tech Analyst, Data Science Manager, Data Warehousing -
Business
Data Analyst, Business Systems/ Tech Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
The Category Analyst supports Category Management by turning spend, supplier, market, and sourcing data into actionable insights used to build category strategies and monitor supplier performance.
This is a highly analytical procurement/supply chain role. The ideal candidate should have a finance, engineering, economics, computer science, or technical/business background with strong data analysis skills.
Key ResponsibilitiesThe person will be responsible for:
- Gathering and analyzing category spend data
- Performing spend analysis, including off-contract or non-compliant spend
- Building baselines from category data
- Conducting supply market analysis, including suppliers, benchmarks, indices, cost drivers, and market trends
- Creating sourcing evaluation models and negotiation models
- Building total cost of ownership models
- Developing supplier scorecards, KPIs, service-level metrics, and monitoring tools
- Supporting category strategy development
- Maintaining databases of potential suppliers
- Supporting current-state and future-state process documentation
- 3–5 years of experience in category management, procurement analytics, sourcing analysis, supply chain analytics, or data analysis
- Engineering, finance, economics, computer science, or business-related degree
- Strong analytics and financial acumen
- Experience with tools such as:
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Python
- SQL
- Qlik View
- Alteryx
- Experience extracting data from relational databases
- Rail industry experience is preferred, but not mandatory
- Project management or supply chain certification is desirable
The strongest candidates should be able to explain experience with:
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