Sourcing Analyst: Drive Savings & Supplier Excellence

Kroger; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger is seeking a Procurement professional to support day-to-day category execution, drive cost savings, and strengthen stakeholder and supplier relationships. This role emphasizes total cost of ownership, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

The position requires a foundational business degree, procurement experience, and demonstrated ability to analyze data, communicate risks, and deliver action-oriented results in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business Management, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, CPG, or similar
• 1-year professional experience in procurement activities
• Ability to identify, quantify and effectively communicate business risks
• Self-starter, ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment while delivering solid action-oriented results quickly
• Analytical skills with the ability to identify, quantify and effectively leverage data to support business decisions
• Ability to monitor compliance with established guidelines, policies, procedures, and regulations
• Ability to synthesize analysis into compelling oral and written communications and presentations
• CPM/CPSM, CSCP or equivalent certification
• Expertise in Microsoft Office, data visualization tools
• 1-year professional experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or Retail

Responsibilities

• Tactical Sourcing
• Design and execute sourcing events for pertinent category
• Utilize available e-sourcing and optimization tools efficiently
• Develop different award optimization scenarios to minimize total cost of ownership
• Respond to supplier and stakeholder questions (e.g. category, supply, event, price, or specification)
• Support the execution of supplier financing programs maintaining a holistic view of early payment and accounts payables programs
• Prepare planning guide to facilitate the completion of the negotiation and support where needed
• Sourcing Analysis
• Conduct opportunity assessments, benchmarking, and should cost modeling to develop sourcing opportunities
• Prepare category improvement projections and conduct post-implementation variance analysis
• Identify total internal costs associated with supplier price, delivery, operations and quality
• Quantify the overall total ownership cost of each product or service to identify cost savings
• Contract Management
• Work with the contract management team in the administration of contract data, addendums, item master sheets, and additional supplier documentation
• Support category managers in the development of supplier performance/continuous improvement targets and related scorecards
• Work with the SRM team in the administration of supplier assessments, score cards, and other analytics to manage supplier performance
• Partner with the KPI & Benefits team to develop a tracking mechanism to report and communicate the savings achieved
• Additional Support
• Support other initiatives / projects in the company that may affect organization’s performance and collaborate with necessary stakeholders
• Support talent development framework and proven experience in creating/maintaining training curriculum
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Skills

Analytical skills

Independent work

Communication of risks

Self-starter

Education

Bachelor degree

CPM/CSCP cert

Tools

Microsoft Office

Data visualization tools

Job description

Kroger is seeking a Procurement professional to support day-to-day category execution, drive cost savings, and strengthen stakeholder and supplier relationships. This role emphasizes total cost of ownership, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

The position requires a foundational business degree, procurement experience, and demonstrated ability to analyze data, communicate risks, and deliver action-oriented results in a fast-paced environment.