Manager, Procurement Analytics & Governance
Sandisk•Milpitas, CA
•$108,800 - $184,900•Remote
About The Position
Serve as the central owner within the procurement and logistics organization for pipeline program management, spend and savings alignment, and reporting integrity. Drive cross-functional accountability, strengthen data accuracy and trust, and proactively identify risks, leakage, and process gaps while establishing scalable, sustainable processes.
Requirements
- Proven experience partnering with Finance on spend, savings, and forecasting alignment
- Strong financial acumen with ability to reconcile and validate complex datasets
- Demonstrated ownership of reporting integrity and audit-ready processes
- Experience managing cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders (procurement, finance, engineering)
- Strong track record driving accountability, enforcing timelines, and ensuring high-quality deliverables
- Ability to structure and manage savings pipelines with sufficient detail for validation and transparency
- Advanced proficiency in data analysis, reporting tools, and financial systems (e.g., Excel, Power BI, ERP systems)
- Ability to identify discrepancies, data gaps, and reporting inconsistencies
- Experience building trusted, standardized reporting frameworks
- Solid understanding of procurement processes, cost drivers, and savings methodologies
- Experience tracking, validating, and reporting procurement savings and spend performance
- Familiarity with price leakage concepts and cost control mechanisms
- Strong executive communication skills with ability to translate data into clear insights for leadership
- Experience leading review cadences (MBRs/QBRs) and presenting risks, gaps, and performance
- Ability to influence without authority across cross-functional teams
- Proven ability to proactively identify risks, process gaps, and root cause issues
- Experience resolving complex cross-functional challenges impacting reporting accuracy and timing
- Strong critical thinking and structured problem-solving capabilities
- Experience redesigning workflows to improve scalability, efficiency, and consistency
- Track record driving automation to reduce manual reporting and improve data reliability
- Familiarity with digital tools and data infrastructure to enable reporting transformation
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary procurement contact for finance
- Reconcile system-generated reports with finance reporting and procurement expectations
- Serve as go-to resource for procurement spend and savings reporting
- Identify and resolve data discrepancies and reporting gaps
- Monitor and minimize price leakage
- Own savings pipeline as a cross-functional program
- Drive timely updates across procurement, finance, and engineering
- Enforce deadlines and ensure stakeholder accountability
- Ensure sufficient project-level detail to support auditability, accuracy, and transparency
- Reduce manual burden on Commodity Managers through additional automation
- Lead regular pipeline and savings review cadences
- Provide clear visibility into performance, risks, and gaps
- Bridge current vs prior forecasts to explain key variances
- Consolidate and communicate risks and opportunities to leadership
- Support leadership inquiries with clear, data-backed insights
- Proactively identify data inconsistencies, process gaps, and reporting risks
- Troubleshoot cross-functional issues across procurement and finance
- Address root causes impacting accuracy, timing, and alignment
- Strengthen leadership confidence in savings and spend reporting
- Reduce reliance on manual reporting, drive adoptions of automated solutions
- Improve pipeline detail and structure to support audit readiness
- Redesign workflows to improve scalability, consistency, and efficiency
Benefits
- paid vacation time
- paid sick leave
- medical/dental/vision insurance
- life, accident and disability insurance
- tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
- employee assistance program
- other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
- tuition reimbursement
- transit
- the Applause Program
- employee stock purchase plan
- Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
- Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
- annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
