Data Analyst - Supply chain Management

Apollo Hospitals; Chennai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo Hospitals is seeking Data Analysts with strong healthcare knowledge to support procurement analytics and management reporting. The role focuses on spend visibility, savings tracking, and compliance monitoring to enable data-driven decisions.

The ideal candidate will handle large datasets, develop dashboards and MIS reports, analyze procurement trends, and translate data into meaningful financial insights for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare procurement analytics or spend analytics.
• Ability to translate data into actionable business and financial insights.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, dashboards, and MIS reporting.

Responsibilities

• Track procurement savings, planned vs realized.
• Develop and maintain procurement dashboards and scorecards.
• Analyze spend across categories, vendors, and locations.
• Provide data-driven insights to procurement leadership.
• Consolidate data from multiple sources for management reporting.

Skills

Data analysis

Business analysis

Healthcare knowledge

Financial acumen

Excel proficient

Power BI

Dashboards

KPIs

Stakeholder communication

Procurement analytics

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Business/Finance/Analytics/Statistics/Engineering/Healthcare Management

Tools

Power BI

Excel

SQL

Job description

Role Summary

We are looking for Data Analysts with strong healthcare knowledge, analytical capabilities, and financial acumen to support the Procurement function. The role will focus on procurement performance analytics, spend visibility, savings tracking, compliance monitoring, and management reporting to enable data-driven decision-making.

The ideal candidate should have experience working with large datasets, developing dashboards and MIS reports, analyzing procurement/spend trends, and translating data into meaningful business and financial insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Track CPU open items, monitor progress, and drive timely closure through structured reporting and follow-ups.
• Develop and maintain procurement performance dashboards, MIS reports, and management scorecards.
• Perform detailed spend analytics across categories, vendors, business units, and locations to identify trends and optimization opportunities.
• Track and validate procurement savings, including planned versus realized savings.
• Monitor procurement compliance, process adherence, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Analyze procurement and financial data to identify cost-saving opportunities, variances, exceptions, and areas requiring management attention.
• Provide data-driven insights and decision support to procurement leadership.
• Perform financial analysis related to procurement spends, budgets, savings, price movements, and cost optimization.
• Consolidate and analyze data from multiple sources to provide accurate and timely management reporting.
• Work closely with Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and other business stakeholders.
• Support periodic business reviews and prepare analytical presentations for senior management.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity of procurement data and reports.

Required Skills

• Strong data analysis and business analysis capabilities.
• Good understanding of the healthcare/hospital ecosystem, preferably procurement or supply chain.
• Strong financial acumen, including spend analysis, savings calculations, budgeting, variance analysis, and cost optimization.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including PivotTables, lookups, data analysis, and reporting.
• Experience with Power BI or similar BI/visualization tools.
• Ability to develop and interpret dashboards, MIS reports, and KPIs.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to convert complex datasets into actionable business insights.
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail with a problem-solving mindset.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 34 years of relevant experience in Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Procurement Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics, or a related area.
• Prior experience in healthcare, hospitals, healthcare services, or a healthcare-related organization is strongly preferred.
• Exposure to procurement and financial data would be an advantage.
• Candidates should demonstrate a good combination of healthcare domain understanding + data analytics + financial acumen.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Commerce, Economics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Engineering, Healthcare Management, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.

MBA or relevant analytics/finance qualification would be an added advantage