Category Analyst / Sr Category Analyst - Loveland, CO

Nutrien

6h • $87,000 - $149,100

About The Position

This role is open at either the Analyst or Senior Analyst level. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and will be considered at the appropriate level based on their education, experience, and qualifications.

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services, and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purpose, Feeding the Future, is the reason we come to work each day. We’re guided by our culture of care and our core values: safety, inclusion, integrity, and results. When we say we care, we mean it. We’re creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels safe, has a sense of belonging, trusts one another, and acts with integrity.  

Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26,000 employees, we operate a world-class network of production, distribution, and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers' needs and strive to provide a more profitable, sustainable, and secure future for all stakeholders.  Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or similar discipline.
• 6+ years relevant experience in data analysis supporting category management, strategic sourcing, supply chain management or equivalent.
• Analytical abilities and experience using quantitative insights to make decisions and influence stakeholder.
• Clear and solid understanding of, and practical experience with, enterprise asset management systems (SAP/Oracle), spend management tools (e.g., Ariba, Analysis & Reports), data management tools and source-to-pay systems (eProcurement).
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capability.

Responsibilities

• Model our core value of safety by enabling a culture in which you and your team are actively contributing to a safe work environment.
• Partner with Category Managers and Specialists across Category Management to provide data, analytics and decision support across all stages of the company’s strategic sourcing and category management processes.
• Aggregate, normalize and analyze spend data to identify trends and prioritize strategic procurement opportunities.
• Conduct external research to analyze market opportunities, risks, technology trends, etc., associated with assigned categories; model, monitor, and report trends in underlying cost drivers.
• Work collaboratively with team and stakeholders to ensure sourcing projects capture relevant input and stay on track.
• Assist with vendor pre-qualification by creating and disseminating Requests for Information (RFIs); summarize RFI responses to help teams and business assess vendor readiness/fit.
• Assist with preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP) documents for dissemination to qualified vendors.
• Interact with vendors, sourcing team, and business to address vendor questions/clarifications regarding RFP.
• Organize detailed comparisons of vendor RFP responses (“bid tab analysis”) to normalize submissions; perform analyses to compare strengths and weaknesses vendors and their proposals.
• Support development of sourcing team’s negotiation strategy; create cost models and run scenarios to help determine trade-offs and business benefits from a range of negotiation outcomes.
• Prepare for and participate in vendor negotiations as needed.
• Provide analytic support to Category leaders in helping business make final vendor selection/award decision.
• Following award decision, support detailed quantification and documentation of savings and preparation of implementation plans.
• Provide assistance tracking and quantifying ongoing vendor performance; assess pulse of market and vendor relationship through range of methods, e.g., benchmarking, inflation tracking, contract leakage analysis, KPIs, and performance reviews.

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, and life insurance and well as disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week
• retirement program that encourages our employees to save for the longer term, with generous matching employer contributions
• paid vacation, sick days and holidays as well as paid personal and maternity/parental leaves and an Employee and Family Assistance Program
• annual incentive plan, consistent with the terms of our program(s) where discretionary pay out of awards is reflecting components such as performance of the company and the employee

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees