Analyst Sr., Business - Global Sourcing

As part of the Sourcing Center of Excellence team, the Sr. Business Analyst will provide the Global Sourcing Leadership Team with analytical support for the sourcing/purchasing efforts which will allow Carnival Corporation to leverage our global scale across ~$10 billion of direct and indirect goods and services.

This position will support all key spend areas, including but not limited to:
Ports, Shore Excursions, Technical, IT, Food & Beverage, Hotel, Freight, Marketing, Air Travel, and Retail, as well as sustainable sourcing initiatives.

This position will provide a great opportunity to learn about the operations across our 9 global brands as well as in a wide variety of spend categories and sourcing markets.

This position is responsible for working on a daily basis with key Sourcing stakeholders across our 9 Brands to provide analytical support for specific sourcing initiatives with the goal of leveraging our global scale. Positive relationship building with the ability to be influential without direct authority will be required.

The position will be responsible for the following areas:

• Project-level Analytical Support

• Financial Tracking and Reporting

• Systems and Data management

• Support/ Lead Sourcing Efforts

Analytics:

• Work closely with the Global Sourcing Leadership Team (responsible for each spend category) to identify business opportunities, define/ clarify a problem statement, and develop an analysis plan

• Gather, organize, reconcile, clean-up large data sets and conduct relevant analyses

• Identify insights, synthesize results, and prepare management presentations

• Prepare power point presentations summarizing data analysis and potential opportunities

• Show financial impact as well as implications for each involved brand

• Presentations should be clean, easy to follow, and ready to use at executive level (CFO, CPO)

• Gather and standardize spend data to create dashboards across brands. Dashboards should have key performance indicators and be interactive so end user can select specific categories and time periods

• Ability to understand end to end process and create process maps to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities across the supply chain

• Develop implementation plan, timelines and responsibility

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders from our 9 Brands across the world throughout the whole process

• Sample analyses include: cost-benefit analyses, buy vs. lease, ship vs. buy-local, “what if” analysis, custom spend reports

• Coach other Business Analysts in the team on data analytics.

Support/ Lead Sourcing Efforts

• Support Category Leads across multiple spend areas to successfully implement sourcing efforts

• Support throughout the 7-Step Sourcing Process, from data analysis, market research, RFP, to vendor negotiations and implementation

• Lead small sourcing efforts along with Category Lead, defining strategy and executing it

• Support category leads by running/managing events in eSourcing tool

Financial Tracking and Reporting

• Work with Category leads, PMO, and Finance teams to make sure savings are accurately measured and validated

• Monitor savings, identify risks, and escalate when appropriate

• Report on value-add initiatives

Systems and Data management:

• Work with systems team to continuously improve sourcing systems by (e.g., improved functionality and fixing of bugs/issues)

• Ensure procurement data is available, reliable, and comparable across all Brands, e.g.,:

• Item Taxonomy & Hierarchy

• Item Descriptions

• Vendor names/ codes, and categorization

• Support sourcing leads by managing eSourcing events

• Contribute to drive adoption on sourcing systems from stakeholders

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or related field required.

• 2–4 years of experience in reporting, data analysis, or business analytics.

• Prior experience in a commercial or operational reporting environment preferred.

• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and SQL-based reporting essential.

• Strong proficiency in MS Excel, SQL (Oracle/Microsoft SSMS), and understanding of database design concepts.

• Experience with reporting tools and platforms such as Hyperion, Tableau, and Workforce Management…