Senior Analyst, Strategic Sourcing

LPL Financial•Fort Mill, SC

About The Position

Where Ambition Meets Innovation Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals. Job Overview: The Senior Analyst, Strategic Sourcing will support LPL’s third‑party spend optimization and procurement governance initiatives by owning the analytical “engine room” behind what we pursue and why. This role is responsible for building the analysis, research, and executive-ready materials that enable leadership decisions and drive sourcing execution. This is a high-output, high-expectations role. You will turn messy data into clear insights, turn insights into decision-ready recommendations, and package the story into crisp executive decks. You will also support coordination across Finance, Legal, Risk (TPRM), and Business Units by maintaining clean tracking, reporting, and source-of-truth documentation.

Requirements

Experience: 3–6+ years in analytics-driven roles (e.g., analytics, consulting, finance, sourcing/procurement, strategy) requiring structured analysis, research, and executive-level communication
Data & analysis: Advanced Excel experience (models, pivots; Power Query preferred) with large, imperfect datasets; demonstrated analytical judgment and ability to validate and challenge assumptions
Executive communication: Proven experience building leadership-ready PowerPoint decks, translating rough inputs and complex analysis into clear, structured, decision-oriented narratives
Research & synthesis: Strong structured research skills with a track record of producing concise, defensible insights, implications, and recommendations for leaders
Operating discipline & stakeholders: Experience managing multiple workstreams with strong tracking and documentation; effective partner to Finance, Legal, Risk, and Business teams with clear written communication
Analytical rigor: Produces accurate, defensible analysis quickly; knows what matters and avoids overbuilding.
Executive storytelling: Converts complexity into simple, decision-ready narratives; decks are clean, tight, and persuasive.
Operational discipline: Tracking, documentation, and follow-up are tight and current; no surprises.
Bias to action: Moves work forward independently; anticipates needs; resolves blockers instead of escalating noise.
Professionalism & resilience: Calm under pressure; handles sensitive vendor and contract work cleanly.
Curious and grounded: Hungry to learn, adapts quickly, and maintains a sense of humor under pressure—doesn’t take themselves too seriously, but takes outcomes seriously.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain spend, vendor, and contract analytics to identify and prioritize savings opportunities (what to pursue, in what order, and why).
Develop vendor-by-vendor “deal packets” for negotiations: baseline spend, pricing structures, renewal timing, current terms, usage drivers, benchmarks, and scenario options.
Conduct structured research and synthesis on suppliers, market landscape, pricing benchmarks, and commercial levers; translate findings into concise, decision-ready recommendations.
Own reporting for initiative status and savings tracking; maintain clean weekly status, milestone tracking, and documented savings support.
Build and polish executive-facing PowerPoint materials: leadership updates, initiative summaries, negotiation narratives, and decision decks (clear storyline, tight visuals, no clutter).
Support cross-functional coordination: schedule working sessions, capture actions and decisions, maintain decision logs, and ensure follow-through across stakeholders.
Maintain the “source of truth” for vendors in scope (spend, contract attributes, renewal dates, termination clauses, key contacts, and current initiative status).