About the Organization:

Boston Consulting Group, Inc. is an American global management consulting firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the Big Three along with Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company. Since 2021, the consultancy has been led by the German executive Christoph Schweizer.

About the Opportunity:

The Data Analyst would be a part of the analytics group in procurement, who will work in close collaboration with business, finance, and BI&A to deliver analytical and actionable insights. The analyst would have direct ownership of delivering critical procurement stakeholder reports and dashboards on weekly and monthly basis spanning across spend, risk and savings. The ideal candidate should be highly skilled in all aspects of data analytics, including mining, generation, and visualization. Additionally, should be committed to transforming data into readable, goal-driven reports for continued innovation and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement best practices for master data management – working in collaboration with subject matter experts. 
  • Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex data sets 
  • Evaluate organizational methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for data sets 
  • Collaborate with wider procurement team members to write prioritized business requirements, documentation, including scope definition and statement of work as well as information needs. 
  • Design databases, develop ETL processes and facilitate customized analyses for stakeholder work. 
  • Ensure timeliness and accuracy of completion for all regular and ad-hoc analysis requests and escalations. 
  • Perform spend analytics, category analytics, supplier analytics and market analytics. 
  • Apply techniques such as data gathering, data mapping, benchmarking, trend analysis and charting to provide observations, and actionable insight. 
  • Design visually compelling reports and build interactive dashboards and data exploration tools 
  • Identify process improvement opportunities, develop and implement necessary solutions working in partnership with process engineers – applying Agile, Lean and automation/Robotic Process Automation where feasible 
  • Be the point of contact for internal and external procurement enquiries related to analytics, reporting and dashboards. 

You’re Good at:

You should be good at reporting and analytics, building relationships, having an eye for detail, structured approach to delivering results.

  • Excellent work management, organizational and planning skills, attention to detail, efficient time management 
  • Comfortable and experienced in handling large and unstructured data to perform analysis, bring insights and make recommendations 
  • Strong verbal and written skills in English, and Hindi. 
  • Highly self-motivated with the ability to drive change in a global organization with minimum supervision 
  • Service-oriented, proactive and anticipates the needs of others and work proactively to seek opportunities to support others 
  • Convey a strong positive personal and professional image with excellent standards of professional behaviour and ethics 
  • Team player, highly motivated, energetic, resourceful, and friendly 

You Bring (experience & Qualifications)

  • Graduate degree in business, supply chain, Engineering (or other related degree programs). Advanced degree is preferred. 
  • 4 + years of relevant industry experience in procurement analytics, preferably in a service centre of a consulting, financial or global blue-chip organization 
  • Proven analytic skills, including mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualization 
  • Proficiency in Microsoft suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). 
  • Advanced expertise in Excel (VBA) and Power Point 
  • Strong Experience with Alteryx/Tableau and other analytics tools (power BI etc.) 
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and verbal and written communication skills with experience of managing/ supporting procurement function across multi geographies and time zones 
  • Knowledge of Purchase-to-pay tools (e.g. Coupa, Ariba, Emptoris, Oracle,). 
  • Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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