Director, Enterprise Procurement Finance & Analytics

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Pittsburgh, PA, US

2 days ago Requisition

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Director, Enterprise Procurement Finance & Analytics will serve as the Chief Procurement Officer's financial and analytical leader and will establish the single source of truth for procurement financial performance, spend analytics, savings, purchase price performance, working capital, and enterprise procurement KPIs.

The Director will lead procurement planning, forecasting, performance management, financial modeling, spend intelligence, and benefit validation across JENNMAR and its affiliated businesses. The role will partner closely with Corporate Finance/FP&A, Operations, Category Management, Logistics, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology, and business-unit leadership.

The position is accountable for ensuring that procurement value creation is measurable, financially credible, reconciled to enterprise results, and visible to executive leadership. Category and functional leaders will identify and execute initiatives; this role will establish baselines, validate methodologies, track implementation, and reconcile realized benefits with Finance.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related discipline required.
• MBA, master's degree, CPA, CMA, or other advanced financial, analytical, or supply-chain credential preferred.
• Relevant procurement or supply-chain certifications such as CPSM, CSCP, or comparable credentials are beneficial.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the enterprise procurement annual operating plan, budget, forecast, long-range plan, and monthly financial performance process in alignment with Corporate Finance and business-unit planning requirements.
• Establish and maintain an enterprise procurement financial framework covering external spend, PPV, savings, VAVE, inflation/deflation, working capital, logistics benefits, cost avoidance, and other procurement value-creation measures.
• Serve as the single source of truth for procurement savings and value realization. Establish common definitions, baseline methodologies, approval requirements, benefit timing, recurring versus one-time classifications, and Finance validation standards.
• Own the procurement savings pipeline from opportunity identification through approval, implementation, realization, and financial reconciliation. Provide clear visibility to pipeline value, probability, timing, risks, and realized EBITDA impact.
• Lead enterprise PPV analysis and reconciliation, including standard versus actual purchase price, budget variance, forecast variance, market/index variance, mix, volume, currency, freight, tariffs, and other material cost drivers.
• Partner with Category Directors to establish annual category targets for savings, PPV, VAVE, working capital, spend under management, contract coverage, supplier consolidation, and other strategic procurement objectives.
• Develop category and commodity financial scorecards that connect sourcing actions and market movements to plant, business-unit, product, and enterprise financial results.
• Own procurement spend analytics and the enterprise spend cube, including supplier-parent normalization, category taxonomy, commodity classification, business-unit and site mapping, data-quality controls, and recurring refresh processes.
• Establish reporting for total external spend, addressable spend, strategically managed spend, contracted spend, supplier concentration, tail spend, and spend under management.
• Develop and maintain procurement dashboards and executive operating reviews covering financial performance, savings, PPV, VAVE, market trends, working capital, supplier performance, risk, sourcing pipeline, and strategic initiative execution.
• Lead financial validation of VAVE initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Operations, Category Management, and Finance, including baseline cost, implementation cost, timing, annualized benefit, EBITDA impact, and realized savings.
• Develop commodity inflation and deflation analytics using market indices, supplier pricing, purchase history, forecasts, and category intelligence. Separate market movement from procurement performance wherever practical.
• Build and maintain should-cost, total-cost-of-ownership, make-versus-buy, landed-cost, sourcing, supplier, and investment business-case models to support procurement decisions.
• Partner with Logistics leadership on transportation and logistics financial analytics, including freight spend, rate performance, fuel, accessorials, detention, fleet economics, cost per shipment/ton/mile, network savings, and logistics productivity.
• Lead procurement working-capital analytics, including payment terms, DPO, early-payment discounts, consignment, vendor-managed inventory, MOQ, lead-time, inventory, and…