Procurement Commercial Analyst

At Holman, we exist to provide rewarding careers and better lives for employees and their families. We hire, train, empower, and reward exceptional people. Our journey is guided by our desire to get it right every time and the acknowledgement that we have an opportunity to be better. To be better, we have to do better, and to do better we must know better.

That’s why we are listening, open to learning new things – about ourselves and each other. We will never stop striving for improved diversity, equity, and inclusion because we are successful together when we feel trusted and supported. It’s The Holman Way.

Holman is proud to offer you the benefits you deserve; including protection against illness, disability, loss of work, or preparation for retirement. Below is a brief overview of these programs (programs may vary by country or worker type):

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement

We have an exciting opportunity that has arisen for a Procurement Commercial Analyst to join our growing team here at Holman UK. The role is based in our Birmingham office, near the NEC. This is a permanent opportunity and we are looking to pay circa £50,000 depending on skills and experience.

• Develop strong working relationships with strategic suppliers (at a minimum, covering the top 50% of spend in given procurement category).
• Communicate and work with operations, customers, customer relations and suppliers to identify, elevate and remedy poor performance or commercial improvement opportunities.
• Deep, day to day knowledge of overall supplier performance in a large network environment.
• Schedule and lead routine vendor performance review meetings.
• Maintain deep understanding of the external market conditions as they relate to strategic suppliers, i.e. mergers, tariffs, global commodity pricing, competing supplier strategies (e.g. FMC, manufacturers), etc.
• Analyse data and compile reports in support of procurement led performance management activity, contract negotiations, initiatives and opportunities.
• Scorecard Development and Maintenance - Coordinate tracking and reporting on vendor performance measures including VOR, Compliance, Administration and Commercial SLA’s and other established contract compliance and performance metrics. Work with accounting, finance and other departments as needed to ensure that data integrity is properly maintained.
• Conduct remote vendor performance discussions with vendors according to established procedures.
• Ensure that agreement terms are managed, communicate approaching agreement expirations to procurement for re-negotiation, extension or cancellation.
• Perform all other duties and special projects as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree or formal data analytical education preferred.
• Additional education, certifications, or other distinctions are a plus.
• Proficient in various desktop tools including MS Office Programs (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint etc.) Able to use Excel to an intermediate level. Proven ability with the following Excel skills as a minimum: VLOOKUPs;
  Pivot Table.
• Able to use Power Query to an intermediate level. Proven ability to extract, transform and prepare data from multiple sources. Proven understanding of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) principles and data quality management.
• Familiarity with Power BI for data modelling, reporting and dashboard creation.
• Desirable: experience using VBA macros to automate reporting and analysis activities.
• Desirable: familiarity with Business Objects reporting tools and legacy data sources.
• Desirable: knowledge of Python for data…