Senior Cost Analyst

CoreTrust Purchasing Group

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Every organization needs supplies and services to operate. From laptops and rental cars to pens and pallets, all businesses, schools, and government bodies have procurement needs. That’s where CoreTrust comes in. CoreTrust works with our members and suppliers to transform how procurement professionals buy billions of dollars’ worth of supplies and services annually. We’re on a mission to be the one place where buyers and suppliers connect, secure purchasing agreements, transact, and partner to accelerate value and realize savings. Reporting to the Cost Analytics Supervisor, you will perform detailed, comprehensive analyses of a prospective or current members’ category spend data, occasionally in more complex and/or large-scale analytical scenarios. You will develop, revise, and effectively communicate analytical summaries and strategies for the sales team to use when discussing the solution and/or results with the customer, occasionally interfacing directly with the customer to help communicate and answer questions related to the analysis. Utilizing a variety of business intelligence and reporting tools, you will acquire, assimilate, and analyze data from multiple systems and data sources. You will also assist in the development of education, training, and documentation of the Cost Analytics process.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
3+ years of work experience as a data, business, or financial analyst
Strong organizational and process analysis skills
Understand methodologies for performing financial and opportunity analysis of proposals
Advanced in Microsoft Excel
Ability and interest to learn automation and enhanced workflow processes
Proven ability to work in a team environment or independently as needed
Must be able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
Effectively communicate results
Ability to interpret large amounts of data and formulate a clear analytical path and process to achieve desired goal

Nice To Haves

GPO knowledge preferred
Experience with Microsoft Office, Power BI, Power Query, Power Pivot, relational databases, SQL, and reporting tools preferred

Responsibilities

Work directly with the sales team, supplier analysts, vendors, and customers to capture and analyze data
Interpret customer’s existing contracts to cross-reference current pricing and services to the applicable CoreTrust contract offering
Complete analyses per customer’s specific needs and/or sales team’s requests
Create category-specific summaries to easily illustrate savings opportunities
Communicate key insights and findings in customer’s contracts and identify business opportunities
Work with the sales team to measure pre-engagement estimated savings opportunity as well as the post engagement savings validations
Become fluent in all categories that flow through the Cost Analytics department
Learn new processes (manual and automated) to increase efficiencies across category portfolio
Provide feedback to manager and/or cross-departmental analysts to enhance processes and tooling
Assist in the development of documentation to lay out the process for completing analyses by category
Lead analyst for complex and/or large-scale projects
Assist manager with project management, enhancements to the Cost Analytics team’s functions and processes, and other ad-hoc requests

Benefits

Competitive compensation package
Free individual employee medical coverage
Company subsidized dental and vision coverage
Dollar for dollar 401(k) match up to 6% of your salary with immediate vesting
Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage
Employee Assistance Program to support your wellbeing and mental health
$1500 annual stipend for undergraduate/graduate college courses; $500 annual stipend for continuing education courses/certifications
Free snacks and beverages on-site
Brand new, state-of-the-art, tech-enabled work environment in downtown Nashville
Flexible/hybrid work culture