Senior Analyst, Procurement

Whirlpool • Benton Harbor, MI

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Whirlpool Corporation is seeking a Senior Analyst, Procurement to join its Laundry & Dish categories team in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The role supports procurement activities by identifying and evaluating suppliers against standards for price, quality, timing, and supply reliability, and by pursuing opportunities to reduce costs while ensuring supplier products meet specifications and quality standards. The position is onsite in the office five days a week, with supplier travel and visits to manufacturing plants as needed.

The Senior Analyst manages launch, cost, and quality projects throughout product life cycles, coordinating suppliers and internal teams to meet unit cost and quality targets while maintaining program schedules. The role also supports new-model transitions, supplier readiness, capital and tooling activities, and continuous improvement of product-management processes and systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• At least 3 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or engineering.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated project-management skills.
• Ability to negotiate and use conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal process partners and suppliers.
• Strong analytical skills, critical thinking, and business acumen to manage ambiguity.
• Ability to manage and execute multiple key activities and competing priorities.
• On a path to developing the technical capability to become a subject matter expert.

Responsibilities

• Manage established launch plans for assigned commodities, components, and projects on a day-to-day basis.
• Participate in project, supplier, and cross-functional meetings.
• Resolve launch-readiness situations and help ensure cost, schedule, and quality objectives are achieved.
• Implement cost and quality changes to existing models to meet performance and cost objectives.
• Balance activities across multiple projects to meet priorities and key objectives.
• Validate and issue capital and expense expenditures for tooling and equipment.
• Travel to suppliers for in-person reviews and readiness discussions.
• Visit manufacturing plants as needed to work with project teams.
• Develop and lead continuous-improvement activities for key product-management processes and systems.
• Manage launch, cost, and quality projects throughout product life cycles to achieve unit-cost and quality targets and maintain program timing for assigned commodities.
• Develop detailed action plans for suppliers to meet project deliverables.
• Coordinate internal deliverables to suppliers, including demand planning, designs, quality, and cost targets.
• Track and evaluate supplier activities against launch plans.
• Monitor supplier quality deliverables.
• Validate, kick off, and track supplier capital and tooling.
• Lead and coordinate day-to-day activities during new-model transitions for suppliers and internal Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing teams.
• Monitor and track key performance indicators for assigned commodities.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package.
• Whirlpool employee discount.
• Fitness and educational reimbursement programs.
• Kitchenettes.
• For Saint Joseph/Benton Harbor locations: recently renovated office space, free coffee, biking and walking trails, and access to The Eddy Early Childhood Center, subject to availability and additional costs.
• Always On Flexibility to manage personal, family, and outside-of-work commitments.
• Two weeks of work from anywhere per year, in minimum one-week increments.
• Industry-leading time-off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior