Analyst, Procurement Global Indirects

About the role

The Corporate Procurement Business Analyst plays a critical role within the Global Indirect Procurement Organization, supporting the HR, Professional Services, and IT categories. This role performs advanced analytics—including cost modeling, market analysis, and RFI/RFP evaluation—to drive fact-based decision-making. The analyst will help identify opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), improve supplier performance, and support the category strategy.

Key Job Accountabilities

Analytics & Insights

• Build business cases using comprehensive data collection, validation, and fact-based reporting.
• Collect, verify, and maintain complex datasets used for modeling, analysis, and decision frameworks; document and standardize best practices for collection and verification of data, improve accuracy and governance.
• Interpret data and generate actionable insights, and identify opportunities through operational and financial analysis to improve operational and financial performance.      
• Support development of cost models, measurement processes, and performance indicators for products and services.
• Maintain and update key reports to ensure accurate and timely spend visibility for internal and external stakeholders.

Corporate Strategy Support: 

• Contribute to the optimization of total cost of ownership by applying fact-based analysis, including supplier cost breakdowns, benchmarking, and market pricing research.
• Support execution of category strategies that deliver on Procurement’s business objectives

Pricing / Cost Management

• Drive effective use of sourcing tools, including RFx platforms, e-auctions, and eProcurement systems.
• Identify system gaps, process inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities to enhance Procurement’s capability and long-term value creation.
• Develop and maintain a portfolio of cost saving projects that meet Amcor targets for spend cost reduction. 
• Drive standardization (processes, design, requirements, specifications) 

• Monitor key KPIs to assess and rate risk regularly. 

Qualifications/Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree:  Supply Chain Management or a related field, Business, Finance, Data / Decision Sciences.
• Other desired education:  Six Sigma, Should Cost Modeling, Change Management, Project Management

• Experience: 3-5 years’ experience in Indirect Procurement or an analytical busines position.

• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges.
• Analytical Skills and Software Applications: 
• Demonstrated use of technical software applications. Advanced excel skills and data visualization (i.e., Power BI) appropriate to the specific work activities 
• Ability to extract and analyze data from multiple systems (e.g., SAP, Amcor spend and savings tracking tools).
• Strong data validation and cleansing skills, with the ability to resolve inconsistencies and ensure accuracy.
• Experience in building and manipulating datasets to derive insights for decision-making.
• Monitoring, Measurement and Metrics:  Knowledge of key business drivers or measures used to gauge the effectiveness and performance of an internal group or a supplier

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.

• Project Management: Strong project management skills with proven capabilities to manage multiple initiatives in parallel

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