Sr. Sourcing Category Specialist, Center Store

Kroger•Cincinnati, OH

18h

About The Position

Work autonomously, providing relevant insights and knowledge to help achieve better results. Responsible for leading, coaching and training an entire workstream on specific projects and improvement initiatives. Build strong relationships with category management teams, CoE leaders, and suppliers. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree business, information management, finance, retail, CPG, or data analytics
3+ years of data analysis experience including building SQL, queries, and standard use of data analysis tools
Expertise in data visualization tools, data modeling, data dictionary, data analytics and data profiling
Ability to synthesize analysis into compelling verbal and written communications and presentations
Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio)
Analytical skills with the ability to identify, quantify and effectively leverage data to support business decisions, communicate opportunities, raise business risks
Ability to become a key point of contact for the team and speak to internal clients on a regular basis

Nice To Haves

5+ years of experience in a data organization, clearly exposed and performing tasks within different data governance aspects (quality, standards, data management)
3+ years of experience building should cost and TCO analyses

Responsibilities

Business Intelligence and Data Analytics - Map key business questions to data need and assess feasibility of obtaining requested internal/external data
Collect and validate data from internal systems and supplier sources
Maintain a data governance framework that meets data objectives for the governance team
Facilitate and execute development of spend analytics reports and insights to drive data backed decisions
Perform system agnostic calculations and combine data from multiple sources into a presentable format
Draw insights and document findings from internal and market analyses
Prepare category improvement projections and conduct post-implementation variance analysis
Provide assistance in pulling data at different stages of the sourcing events and determine common data needs, drive multi-functional decision making, and enable scale
Support manager to develop and perform spend analytics per category and aggregate
Advanced Analytics - Identify total internal costs associated with supplier price, delivery, operations and quality, and other costs to build should cost analysis
Quantify the overall total ownership cost of products or services to perform supplier comparison analyses
Perform and report should cost analysis & TCO analysis
Talent Management - Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties: complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports
Support talent development framework and proven experience in creating/maintaining training curriculum
Additional Support - Work with leader to identify new analytics and business intelligence capabilities
Support business user adoption of business intelligence and self-service reporting objectives
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation