Senior Analytics Engineer [AQ-26147]

Aquent; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent partners with a leading healthcare organization to empower data-driven decisions. This analytics role designs and maintains self-serve dashboards, leads cross-functional initiatives with finance and supply chain, and optimizes spend and working capital.

You will establish robust data governance, validate cost savings, and enable teams with advanced analytics, forecasting, and scenario modeling to drive strategic outcomes in healthcare operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with 5+ years leading analytics, BI, procurement, or finance analytics initiatives.
• Strong SQL skills for complex data extraction, reconciliation, and validation.
• Proven expertise in dashboards using Power BI or equivalent BI tool.
• Experience forecasting, projections, benchmarks, and performance metrics to inform decisions.
• Ability to document data flows, definitions, and data governance rules.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and maintain self-serve analytics dashboards, reports, scorecards, and analyses across payments, procurement, supplier management, and savings.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Finance, Category Management, Supplier Management, and IT teams.
• Analyze invoice data, payment cycles, PO data, and spend to identify improvements.
• Develop forecasting models for spend, savings, and contract renewals; track forecast performance.
• Perform supplier analytics, assess risk and contract metadata to enable rationalization.
• Coordinate validation with Finance to ensure cost-savings accuracy and avoid duplicate recognition.
• Benchmark procurement metrics against market data to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Establish data quality and governance: validation rules, reconciliations, audits, source-to-report docs.
• Collaborate with IT on data mapping and reporting requirements; provide user documentation.

Skills

SQL

Power BI

Dashboard design

Forecasting

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Oracle

Coupa

Zip

iCertis

Job description

Aquent is proud to partner with a leading organization in the healthcare sector, a company deeply committed to improving lives and pioneering advancements in healthcare. In this dynamic role, you will have a profound impact by transforming complex data landscapes into powerful, actionable insights that optimize critical enterprise functions like procurement and supplier management. By bringing clarity and foresight to complex data, your work will directly contribute to the efficiency of a mission-driven environment, making a tangible difference in the future of healthcare.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate analytics professional to join a collaborative team where your expertise will shape the future of healthcare operations. In this pivotal role, you will design and maintain self-serve analytics dashboards, lead cross-functional initiatives with finance and supply chain stakeholders, and optimize spend and working capital. This is an exciting opportunity to drive strategic business decisions, establish robust data governance frameworks, and empower teams with cutting-edge analytical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and maintain self-serve analytics dashboards, reports, scorecards, and executive-ready analyses covering payments, procurement, supplier management, savings, and data governance.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Finance, Category Management, Supplier Management, and IT teams to align on business definitions, KPI assumptions, data flows, and strategic recommendations.
• Optimize spend and working capital by analyzing invoice data, payment cycles, purchase orders, maverick spend, cycle times, and payment terms to identify actionable improvements and operational efficiencies.
• Drive procurement forecasting and modeling by establishing and maintaining methodologies and scenario models for spend, savings, pipeline activity, and contract renewals, while rigorously tracking forecast performance.
• Perform comprehensive contract and supplier analytics, evaluating supplier performance, risk, sustainability, diversity, and contract metadata to enable base rationalization and proactively track upcoming expirations and renewals.
• Lead financial tie-out activities with Finance and key stakeholders to validate cost savings accuracy and eliminate duplicate recognition.
• Benchmark purchase prices and procurement performance indicators against market data to pinpoint risk areas and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Establish robust data quality and governance frameworks, including creating data validation rules, executing reconciliations, conducting audits, developing source-to-report documentation, and maintaining data dictionaries to ensure high data integrity across systems.
• Partner with IT on data mapping and reporting requirements for system integrations, while providing technical guidance, office hours, and documentation to empower internal users.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent practical experience) with 5+ years of experience leading complex data analytics, business intelligence, procurement analytics, or finance analytics initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in SQL for complex data extraction, reconciliation, and validation.
• Proven expertise in developing dashboards using Power BI or a comparable business intelligence tool.
• Demonstrated track record creating forecasts, projections, benchmarks, and performance metrics that directly inform strategic business decisions.
• Proven ability to establish data validation rules, execute reconciliations, trace root causes, and document data flows, business logic, and definitions.
• Outstanding ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical frameworks and clearly convey complex technical findings to non-technical leaders.
• Strong organizational skills to independently prioritize and manage a portfolio of concurrent projects with minimal supervision.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Prior experience in procurement, supply chain, strategic sourcing, accounts payable, strategic spend analytics, working capital analysis, or healthcare analytics.
• Hands‑on experience working with enterprise procurement and contract systems such as Oracle, Coupa, Zip, or iCertis.
• Experience applying statistical analysis, financial modeling, or scenario analysis in a large‑enterprise environment.