Strategic Procurement & Category Analytics

CFA Institute; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 72,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

CFA Institute seeks a Procurement Category Analyst to strengthen category management and strategic sourcing. You will turn procurement and contract data into insights, support sourcing events, and inform vendor decisions with analytical findings.

You’ll develop dashboards, track milestones, and help implement data governance across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle while collaborating with category managers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, sourcing, category management, finance, data analytics or contract operations.
• Advanced Excel capability with pivot tables and complex formulas.
• Experience creating dashboards in BI tools and data validation.

Responsibilities

• Analyze vendor spend to identify trends, cost drivers and tail spend.
• Develop dashboards and reporting on category performance and contract utilization.
• Support RFPs, sourcing events and vendor selection with structured analyses.
• Provide analytical support for negotiations with financial summaries and modelling.
• Track contract milestones, renewal dates and supplier performance with the Contracts Manager.
• Identify workflow improvements across source-to-pay and governance processes.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Data analysis

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

ERP

P2P/S2P systems

Job description

CFA Institute seeks a Procurement Category Analyst to strengthen category management and strategic sourcing. You will turn procurement and contract data into insights, support sourcing events, and inform vendor decisions with analytical findings.

You’ll develop dashboards, track milestones, and help implement data governance across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle while collaborating with category managers and stakeholders.