Manager, Procurement Analytics & Governance

Sandisk; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandisk is seeking a procurement and finance program leader to own the savings pipeline, ensure reporting integrity, and coordinate across procurement, finance, and engineering.

You will drive automation, strengthen data accuracy, monitor risks, and present auditable insights to leadership, with a focus on scalable, transparent processes.

Ideal candidates have proven partnership with Finance, advanced data skills, and a track record of delivering measurable savings in complex environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience partnering with Finance on spend, savings, and forecasting alignment.
• Strong financial acumen with ability to reconcile and validate complex datasets.
• Ownership of reporting integrity and audit-ready processes.
• Experience managing cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders (procurement, finance, engineering).
• Advanced proficiency in data analysis, reporting tools, and financial systems (e.g., Excel, Power BI, ERP).
• Understanding of procurement processes, cost drivers, and savings methodologies.
• Strong executive communication skills translating data into clear leadership insights.

Responsibilities

• Act as the central owner for pipeline program management, spend and savings alignment, and reporting integrity.
• Own savings pipeline as a cross-functional program across procurement, finance, and engineering.
• Lead regular pipeline and savings reviews; provide visibility into performance, risks, and gaps.
• Identify data inconsistencies, process gaps, and reporting risks, and troubleshoot cross-functional issues across procurement and finance.
• Drive automation to reduce manual reporting and improve scalability and audit readiness.

Skills

Data analysis

Forecasting

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Automation

Tools

Excel

Power BI

ERP systems

Job description

Serve as the central owner within the procurement and logistics organization for pipeline program management, spend and savings alignment, and reporting integrity. Drive cross-functional accountability, strengthen data accuracy and trust, and proactively identify risks, leakage, and process gaps while establishing scalable, sustainable processes.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Finance Partnership & Reporting Integrity

• Act as the primary procurement contact for finance
• Reconcile system-generated reports with finance reporting and procurement expectations
• Serve as go-to resource for procurement spend and savings reporting
• Identify and resolve data discrepancies and reporting gaps
• Monitor and minimize price leakage

Pipeline Program Management

• Own savings pipeline as a cross-functional program
• Drive timely updates across procurement, finance, and engineering
• Enforce deadlines and ensure stakeholder accountability
• Ensure sufficient project-level detail to support auditability, accuracy, and transparency
• Reduce manual burden on Commodity Managers through additional automation

Governance & Leadership Visibility

• Lead regular pipeline and savings review cadences
• Provide clear visibility into performance, risks, and gaps
• Bridge current vs prior forecasts to explain key variances
• Consolidate and communicate risks and opportunities to leadership
• Support leadership inquiries with clear, data-backed insights

Issue Identification & Risk Mitigation

• Proactively identify data inconsistencies, process gaps, and reporting risks
• Troubleshoot cross-functional issues across procurement and finance
• Address root causes impacting accuracy, timing, and alignment
• Strengthen leadership confidence in savings and spend reporting

Process Improvement & Automation

• Reduce reliance on manual reporting, drive adoptions of automated solutions
• Improve pipeline detail and structure to support audit readiness
• Redesign workflows to improve scalability, consistency, and efficiency

Key Business Challenges Addressed

• Manual, time-intensive reporting processes
• Insufficient pipeline detail for validation and audit
• Misalignment between procurement and finance
• Limited leadership confidence in reported savings

Finance & Business Partnership

• Proven experience partnering with Finance on spend, savings, and forecasting alignment
• Strong financial acumen with ability to reconcile and validate complex datasets
• Demonstrated ownership of reporting integrity and audit-ready processes

Program & Pipeline Management

• Experience managing cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders (procurement, finance, engineering)
• Strong track record driving accountability, enforcing timelines, and ensuring high-quality deliverables
• Ability to structure and manage savings pipelines with sufficient detail for validation and transparency

Data & Analytics Expertise

• Advanced proficiency in data analysis, reporting tools, and financial systems (e.g., Excel, Power BI, ERP systems)
• Ability to identify discrepancies, data gaps, and reporting inconsistencies
• Experience building trusted, standardized reporting frameworks

Procurement & Savings Knowledge

• Solid understanding of procurement processes, cost drivers, and savings methodologies
• Experience tracking, validating, and reporting procurement savings and spend performance
• Familiarity with price leakage concepts and cost control mechanisms

Leadership & Communication

• Strong executive communication skills with ability to translate data into clear insights for leadership
• Experience leading review cadences (MBRs/QBRs) and presenting risks, gaps, and performance
• Ability to influence without authority across cross-functional teams

Problem Solving & Risk Management

• Proven ability to proactively identify risks, process gaps, and root cause issues
• Experience resolving complex cross-functional challenges impacting reporting accuracy and timing
• Strong critical thinking and structured problem-solving capabilities

Process Improvement & Automation

• Experience redesigning workflows to improve scalability, efficiency, and consistency
• Track record driving automation to reduce manual reporting and improve data reliability
• Familiarity with digital tools and data infrastructure to enable reporting transformation

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information,