Analyst - Indirect Procurement, GSS

Role & responsibilities:

• Sourcing and Supplier Management: Identify, evaluate, and select potential suppliers; negotiate contracts; and maintain relationships with existing suppliers to ensure the best terms and pricing for goods and services.
• Actively drive compliance of category strategies and sourcing projects with Herbalife Procurement Policy, Directives, Guidelines, local Procurement SOPs, and legal and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct market intelligence searching for new vendors and setting pricing benchmarks through both primary and secondary research.
• Vendor interaction issuing RFQs, obtaining quotes, addressing vendor questions, and negotiating terms.
• User department interaction gathering details and specifications for required materials or services, site visits for contract execution and service delivery, and suggesting alternate vendors.
• Data analysis spend analysis and opportunity assessment.
• Excel advanced Excel skills for formula-driven number crunching.
• Communication — strong written and verbal communication with vendors and internal customers.

Preferred candidate profile:

• Graduation, with procurement knowledge preferred.
• Excellent PowerPoint skills.
• More than 4 years of professional experience in areas related to business analysis focusing on technical and commercial aspects of contracting, procurement, and strategic sourcing.
• Experience in market intelligence for indirect spend categories.
• Experience in supplier analysis, sourcing strategies, and contract management.
• Experience in price benchmarking.
• Experience in management consulting is an advantage — specifically structured problem-solving and constructive challenge/probing.
• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and coherent manner.
• Mature attitude coupled with effective interpersonal, communication, and listening skills.
• Strong analytical abilities; able to handle and interpret large volumes of data; out-of-the-box thinking to provide valuable insights on economic, technical, financial, and/or commercial areas to support decision-making.
• Proficiency in Microsoft tools including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.

What's special about the team:

• Spend analytics and hands-on experience executing large contracts and projects.
• Cross-functional team interaction and influence skills.
• Initiative to take ownership of activities and ensure successful completion.
• Must be assertive, persuasive, analytical, and an excellent communicator with solid organizational and prioritization skills.