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Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network. Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together. Description We have a wide variety of career opportunities around the world - come find yours. Procurement The Global Procurement (GP) organization at United Airlines is responsible for procuring goods and services and developing/managing relationships with third-party providers with the objective of reducing total cost and risk to the company while improving levels of quality, service, and technology. Job Overview And Responsibilities The primary role of Associate Sourcing Specialist – Global Procurement is to support the Strategic Sourcing team in India and the US. This role will support different procurement activities for any spend category, primarily in the technology space. This role will require driving data-driven analyses, tracking trends, creating reports and generating meaningful insights with the aim of optimizing our costs. Provide analytical support to establish robust sourcing methodologies to drive cost savings across different business functions Provide analytical support to different procurement activities such as development of requests for proposals (RFPs), supply market analysis, RFP response analysis, system set-up and administration, other ad-hoc analysis and SOW reviews Create analyses frameworks and dashboards to track relevant trends and metrics for specified categories. Gather, organize and analyze data through various internal and external sources Manage business relationships with key internal stakeholders and external suppliers including routine enhancements, communication of changes, sharing end-user feedback Perform other ad-hoc data analyses and create presentations/reports for stakeholders and leaders, as needed This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc. Qualifications Required: Bachelor's degree required in a business or quantitative field such as computer science, engineering, economics, statistics, math 0-2 years of relevant experience Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information Strong problem-solving, communication and people skills Understanding of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint Superior attention to accuracy and detail Preferred Familiarity with advanced Microsoft Excel techniques Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Power BI/ Spotfire Proven comfort working with large/complex data sets Work experience with an airline, or familiarity with airline operations Work experience in a procurement team, or familiarity with procurement concepts Work experience in a consulting or analytical role GGN00002091 Show more Show less
