Senior Analyst, Category Strategy Analytics
About The Position
Global Procurement and Payments (GPP) focuses on supporting Sun Life’s winning strategy and delivering bottom-line results by driving value in the management of the company's external spend. The Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) utilizes data and analytics to empower Category Management and Strategic Sourcing to make more informed, data-driven decisions, optimize third-party spend, improve quality, and enhance supplier relationships. This is achieved by deriving actionable insights from third-party spend, providing deep support for RFPs, renewals, and negotiations, and partnering with category managers and strategic sourcing leads across Sun Life globally. The Senior Analyst will be part of a collaborative and caring team, tackling challenging and interesting problems in this domain. They will operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, gain exposure to senior leaders, and build broad knowledge of Sun Life’s businesses. The successful candidate will lead workstreams with minimal supervision, including analyzing RFP bid information and third-party spend data, compiling metrics, and conducting in-depth research.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, business or procurement and supply focus
- 5+ years experience in Consultancy, Financial Services, Data Analytics/Management or Procurement Analytics
- Competency in Microsoft Office programs
- High proficiency in data analytics and visualization tools (IE/ MS Excel, Tableau, Alteryx and advanced with functionality such as pivots, power query, formulas) a strong ability to interpret data, draw insightful observations and state risks/limitations.
- Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to understand and lead complex analyses from end to end including gathering requirements, assessing data integrity/completeness, building sophisticated models, deriving insights
- Ability to grasp and communicate complex ideas and data insights clearly and effectively at an executive level, both verbally and in writing
- Strong results-oriented project management skills; ability to prioritize and balance competing priorities; well organized, with a high attention to details
- Ability to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgment including resourcefulness and out-of-the-box thinking in navigating ambiguous situations/problems
- Ability to engage and collaborate effectively with others outside of Analytics CoE
Responsibilities
- Support GPP’s Category Management & Strategic Sourcing team on sourcing events (with should-cost models, bid analysis, market benchmark, scenario analysis), strategy development (with historical and forecasted spend trends) and spend reporting (with monthly/quarterly/annual reports and slides for various stakeholders)
- Extract, transform and interpret data at the lowest level of detail to analyze spend, identify trends, insights and opportunities
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics from RFP bids to guide decisions on awarding and contracting
- Conduct market research and benchmarking analysis to evaluate potential suppliers, track market trends, and identify emerging opportunities for strategic partnerships
- Prepare relevant data to enable tracking of management information and KPIs such as category savings, vendor SLAs
- Acquire, maintain and develop expertise, knowledge and information to support continuous improvement from relevant internal and external sources
- Work directly and effectively with various teams and share your expertise and insights with colleagues to expand our GPP knowledge and refine our approaches to come up with the best solutions and drive outcomes
- Other duties as required
Benefits
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave
- Medical coverage
- Company paid life and AD&D insurance
- Disability programs
- Partially paid sabbatical program
- 401(k) employer match
- Stock purchase options
- Employer-funded retirement account
- Flexible, inclusive and collaborative work environment that supports career growth
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
