This job has expired, please see additional jobs below
Category Analyst
Liberty Mutual
Boston, MA, United States
Job Details - this job has expired, please see similar jobs below
Description
Advance your career at Liberty Mutual Insurance- A Fortune 100 Company!
Responsible for working with a category team to drive increased value for stakeholders including reduced costs, improved quality, and best in class service, technology and processes. Assist Category Strategist in developing category planning and programs. Provide analytic expertise in developing business cases or fact based analysis. Provide market research to bring value to the category strategy.
Responsibilities:
• Develop, lead and deliver category and sub-category analysis, market trend within the overall category program, to ensure that savings and efficiencies are achieved, and provide reports to senior managers as required.
• Maintain productive partnerships with key stakeholders and develop an in-depth understanding of their business and how we can impact.
• Develop and continuously improve market knowledge of the assigned commodity categories; apply knowledge to add value to projects and category planning.
• Assist in development of category strategy including sourcing activities which generate benefits and achieve financial savings targets through insight and analysis of category and sub categories areas, including:
◦ Examine LMI's procured volumes and suggest recommendations to manage or control demand
◦ Prepare fact based analyses and business case studies specific to category project
◦ Analysis of spend and supply base to develop total cost of ownership levers to generate value
◦ Analysis of supply markets to identify new/alternative suppliers and market trend
◦ Identification of internal and external cost drivers in the categories
◦ Host stakeholder working sessions to communicate progress, create a forum for open communication and address areas for improvement
◦ Development of savings opportunities and benchmarking of industry standards and practices to identify quick win opportunities
• Use leading practice tools to develop and implement sourcing strategies including:
◦ Total Cost of Ownership analysis
◦ Supply market positioning
◦ Supply base profiles
◦ Supplier assessment
◦ Supplier financial analysis
◦ Should and Target Cost analysis
◦ Objective decision making
◦ Internal and external supplier portals
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. 2-4 years of relevant experience.
• Expertise in MS Office including Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Working knowledge of online sourcing tools (ideally Ariba), SharePoint and Connect preferred.
• Experience with assigned commodity categories preferred.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills, project management skills, decision-making abilities and presentation skills.
• Math/Analytics background preferred.
• Ability to effectively work with management and key stakeholders in SBU/Corporate Departments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously delivering high quality results in terms of process, content and timeliness.
• Self-starter with personal drive to succeed and achieve results.