Freelance Logistics Procurement Analytics Consultant

Our client, a leading American multinational manufacturer of confectionery and pet food, is looking for a Logistics Procurement Analytics Consultant.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead analytics for high-value logistics tenders across transportation, warehousing, and services.

Support Global and Regional Logistics Procurement teams with business and market intelligence, data management, and performance reporting.

Conduct internal analyses, including spend analysis, forecasting, savings analysis, supplier information analysis, pricing and contract analytics, benchmarking, and compliance with sourcing strategies.

Perform external analyses, including market research, economic trends, inflation, productivity, and supplier identification.

Conduct macroeconomic and category spend analysis using internal spend analytics tools and external market data.

Partner with Category Managers to assess opportunities, engage stakeholders, and expand procurement influence into new spend areas.

Analyze and score vendor proposals, provide insights, and recommend actions to Category Managers and business partners.

Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking.

Use data visualization tools (Tableau/Power BI) and analytical models to present actionable insights.

Manage projects related to KPI development and improvement.

Recommend process standardization or efficiency improvements to reduce costs and enhance operations.

Support complex strategic sourcing projects, including RFP management, market and supplier research, and analytics support.

Contribute to the annual sourcing plan and maintain standardized performance metrics and tools for regional buyers.

Continuously challenge the status quo, think innovatively, and push operational and analytical boundaries.

Skills Required

Qualifications & Skills:

5+ years of strategic sourcing and procurement experience, ideally in logistics.

Experience in logistics sourcing highly desirable.

Proven project leadership skills, managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Experience working in large, global, matrixed organizations.

In-depth understanding of procurement best practices (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFx) and e-sourcing tools.

Advanced analytical and financial skills; able to synthesize and interpret large datasets.

Power user of MS Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau/Power BI.

Experience manipulating large datasets, performing trend analysis, and summarizing insights.

Experience merging and reconciling data from multiple sources.

Experience setting up tenders in e-sourcing platforms; experience with Keelvar highly desirable.

Knowledge of tools/languages such as Llamasoft, Alteryx, Python, or V-Basic is a plus.

Fluent in English.