Senior Strategic Sourcing Data Analyst Job at Zep, Inc.
About Zep Inc.
Zep Inc. is a leading manufacturer of cleaning solutions for businesses and consumers with operations across the U.S, Canada, and Europe. Our purpose is to make the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive. To fulfill our purpose, we focus on understanding and solving cleaning needs for consumers, as well as business customers across a variety of segments including transportation, industrial, institutional, and food & beverage. We also have a strong presence in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) segment, where we develop products to help consumers and businesses maintain a clean and safe environment. Our products can be found online and at retail shelves at outlets like Home Depot, Amazon, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, Grainger, HD Supply, Walmart, and many others. We market our products under well recognized and established brand names, such as Zep®, Enforcer®, Misty®, TimeMist®, TimeWick, and Country Vet®. Zep was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. In 2021, Zep became the official cleaning partner of Atlanta United FC.
Job Description:
The Senior Strategic Sourcing Data Analyst will lead the business planning process for the Procurement Team and be a key interface with the broader management group at ZEP. This role performs data mining and analysis internally across multiple ERP systems and externally across multiple sources. Additionally, the Lead Strategic Sourcing Analyst helps the Procurement Team propose corresponding strategies for sourcing and negotiation. This role collaborates with Marketing/NPD, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations and other functions to create best in class Procurement processes.
Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks:
- Lead the Business planning Process for the Procurement Team and communicate / collaborate across various functions in the company.
- Directly assist the Chief Procurement Officer in various strategies and projects both leading and problem-solving various issues as they arise.
- Analyze internal data and generate reports across multiple ERP systems using SAP and other available tools, to support projects, Category Managers, and other Zep Leaders for benchmarking and cost savings opportunities.
- Utilize a deep understanding of quantitative analysis to handle and interpretate data from various sources.
- Extract, cleanse, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources while ensuring accuracy.
- Develop and administer yearly spend data and reporting of projected trends using the demand plan, layering in futures and commodities, delivering results to senior leadership in the monthly value chain meeting.
- Identify business opportunities and provide recommendations for changes to processes based on trends and data analysis, applying knowledge of procurement, relevant issues, and financial goals.
- Leadership for populating and maintaining complex databases to provide fact-based information for all the procurement categories.
- Manage critical and complex competitive bidding processes (RFP) and conduct complex analysis, including price/cost benefit analysis.
- Implement processes to enable optimal category solutions including cost modeling, price/volume analysis, TCO analysis.
- Develops and documents methodologies and collects data, analyzes, and reports on Procurement and supplier performance metrics, including spend, savings and contract compliance.
- Work with revenue managers and controllers to fix issues with SAP pricing master data during standard cost adjustment periods.
- Serve as a lead on the implementation of SAP Cloud Analytics and develop a strategy and the content/reporting for the Procurement Team, then serving as a SME for the team.
Supervision Responsibilities:
- This position does not have any direct reports but will provide leadership to the other members of the Data Analysis team as needed.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree (BA, BS) required.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in a quantitative or engineering discipline such as Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Business Analytics, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or Logistics is highly preferred.
- 3-5 years working in a quantitative environment to solve complex problems.
- Strong excel skills including pivot tables, charts, and complex macros.
- Data visualization experience with Power BI (preferred) or Tableau.
- Comfortable handling large quantities of data from different sources. Able to clean, merge, and manipulate data.
- Ability to prioritize and manage numerous requests at the same time.
- Working knowledge and understanding of SAP/ERP/MRP systems and their use in a manufacturing environment.
Special Position Requirements:
- Limited travel required to various facilities in the company & seminars is expected, travel anticipated to be less than 5%.
- Data analysis and problem solving are required in the position.
Key Relationships:
- Procurement Commodity Teams
- Finance and Accounting
- Supply / Demand Planners and Supply Chain Team
- Sales & Marketing
Our Values
At Zep, we have developed a set of values focused on bringing even greater cohesion to our workplace. As part of this plan, we introduced a values framework called S.P.E.E.D. to align with our purpose of making the planet cleaner, safer, and more productive.
- Stewardship: We continuously improve the safety of our people and products, and we protect the planet by innovating solutions to reduce our environmental impact.
- Passion for Problem Solving: We listen to our customers and actively work to find solutions for unique situations. We think creatively to innovate and seize opportunities that will drive growth and make all our customers’ and consumers’ lives better.
- Empowerment: We encourage and lead our people to be accountable by equipping them to make decisions and own the outcome
- Expertise: We create innovative solutions and partnerships that are relevant to service our communities and customers.
- Doing the Right Thing: We expect our people to understand ethical boundaries and be inclusive of other backgrounds, ideas, and perspectives. Demonstrating honesty, respect and integrity in all actions is always expected.
Zep Inc. is an organization that is committed to diversity within its workforce and encourages all interested candidates, including women, minorities, & former military personnel to apply. It is the policy of Zep Inc. that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.
As an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, Zep Inc. provides full employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, ancestry, or veteran status or any other distinction outlined in all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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