Sr Analyst, Procurement

• Partners with internal clients for alignment of business priorities across multiple sourcing categories and be the conduit/liaison on behalf of global sourcing team. 

• Provides internal procurement expertise to the business in the practice of strategic sourcing, best practices, and external marketplace or innovative trends. 

• Builds effective relationships to enable fast action 

• Participates in the team meetings of the lines of business, educates them on procurement policy and approach, and remains attentive to their needs   

• Contributes the view point of the Mexico marketplace to global category strategies and is able to speak to the economic environment in Mexico and how it impacts procurement 

• Implements global category strategies in Mexico and tailors them to the local marketplace. (sole source or short-list negotiations, leverage added scope, competitive bidding, eSourcing tools, catalogs, reverse auctions, etc.).    

• Accountable for the delivery of category savings targets through collaboration and engagement with business stakeholders. 

• Serves as key procurement lead on projects, bring procurement expertise and project management to projects and instills a sense of confidence in the business that this role is an expert in procurement and will drive the process 

• Develops and compiles business requirements for new ideals, including execution of Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quotation (RFQ) or Request for Proposals (RFP). 

• Uses depth of knowledge of suppliers in Mexico and in the wider Latin America marketplace as needed, to gain insights which are not obvious nor widely held that improve WBD’s competitive advantage.   

• Partners with Supplier Diversity efforts to creatively include diverse vendors in supplier selection processes and creatively grow existing diverse vendor spend. 

• Leads environmentally friendly purchase efforts to support WBD’s sustainability efforts.    

Negotiations, Contract Creation & Management 

• Leads and develops multi-pronged negotiation strategies, contract analyses, and sourcing communications and meetings.   

• Collaborates with stakeholders and local legal counsel to lead negotiations and contract coordination to ensure all geography-specific requirements are captured. 

• Views new and existing opportunities from different angles to identify fresh and original ways of tapping those opportunities to get maximum return. 

Sourcing-Driven Project Management 

• Identifies, implements, and manages projects across business units in Mexico and at times may expand to the Andean, Central America and the Caribbean 

• Identifies opportunities where project management expertise needs to be implemented and works to ensure that those involved in key projects are managing them optimally.