Senior Analytics Engineer - Healthcare Procurement Insights

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

Job summary

Aquent partners with a leading healthcare organization to transform how data informs decisions and enhance patient care. In this role you will deliver self-serve analytics for payments, procurement, and supplier management, enabling cross-functional teams to act on insights and drive tangible savings.

You will lead dashboards, forecasts, and data governance, collaborating with Finance, IT, and Category Management to standardize definitions, data flows, and KPI benchmarks that improve cash flow

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 5+ years leading complex data analytics, BI, procurement analytics, or finance analytics initiatives.
• Proficiency in SQL for data extraction, reconciliation, and validation.
• Experience building dashboards with Power BI or similar tools.
• Strong ability to translate business questions into analytical frameworks and present findings to leaders.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and maintain self-serve analytics dashboards, reports, scorecards, and executive-ready analyses for payments, procurement, supplier management, and data governance.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Finance, Category Management, Supplier Management, and IT to align on definitions, KPIs, data flows, and recommendations.
• Analyze invoice data, payment cycles, POs, and maverick spend to identify improvements and efficiencies.
• Drive procurement forecasting and modeling with spend, savings, and contract renewal scenarios; track forecast performance.
• Perform contract and supplier analytics to support base rationalization and anticipate expirations.
• Coordinate financial tie-out activities with Finance to validate cost savings accuracy.
• Benchmark procurement performance against market data to flag risks and savings opportunities.
• Establish data quality and governance with validation rules, reconciliations, audits, and data dictionaries.
• Collaborate with IT on data mapping and reporting requirements for system integrations.

Skills

SQL

Power BI

Dashboards

Forecasting

Data validation

Data modeling

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Oracle

Coupa

Zip

iCertis

Job description

Aquent partners with a leading healthcare organization to transform how data informs decisions and enhance patient care. In this role you will deliver self-serve analytics for payments, procurement, and supplier management, enabling cross-functional teams to act on insights and drive tangible savings.

You will lead dashboards, forecasts, and data governance, collaborating with Finance, IT, and Category Management to standardize definitions, data flows, and KPI benchmarks that improve cash flow