Analyst - Procurement
Job No:
PVG2020105218
Location:
Vancouver BC
Welcome to Newcrest!
Newcrest is one of the world's largest gold mining companies. As a global business, we aim to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, valued, and supported to bring their whole unique self to work.
We recognise that our different backgrounds and perspectives help us find better ways to: solve problems; attract and retain the best people; explore, develop, and produce more gold safely and profitably; and help make Newcrest a better place to work.
The Opportunity:
We currently have an opportunity for an Analyst - Procurement to join the Newcrest team in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The successful candidate will provide safe, efficient, and cost-effective Procurement Analysis in accordance with company objectives, including driving analytics transformation and upskill of the procurement capability with identification and adoption of industry best practice reporting, insights, standardisation, and automation.
The accountabilities for the Analyst Procurement to be delivered through operational discipline, value creation and continuous improvement are to:
- Support the Lead and Specialist roles in the Procurement function in their analytics requirements
- Develop the analytic skills and abilities of team members in the Procurement function and drive the training agenda where gaps are identified
- Contribute to the maintenance of a mature suite of reports and tools such as evaluation templates to support all key procurement activities
- Use market insights and other leading or lagging indicator analytics to provide directional guidance on team priorities
- Create and maintain site and market unit price lower, upper, and average reporting tool
- Create and maintain contract KPI reporting systems admin and governance reporting tool
- Create and maintain Senior Leadership Team contract, contractor, and associated reporting tool
- Create and maintain standardised price rise/fall mechanisms or calculations and integrated periodic adjustment tool linking to market indices
- Create and report on KPIs to monitor SAP and DoA procure to pay governance
- Create and maintain contractor mobilisation and systems governance reporting tool
- Create and maintain equipment mobilisation and systems governance reporting tool
- Create and maintain vendor diagnostic and opportunity reporting tool
What we offer:
All our team members are rewarded with a host of great benefits, including:
- Extended Health and Dental benefits and insurance for eligible employees
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience, skills, and qualifications
- Ongoing training with continuous growth and development opportunities
About You:
The successful candidate will possess a post-secondary qualification in either Economics, Accounting, Data Science, Business Management or similar.
- Bachelors' degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or related degree.
- Previous experience with Logistics and Materials Management, Supply Chain or similar (desirable)
- Project Management experience or similar (desirable)
- 5-10 years’ progressive experience as a business and/or category analyst.
- Comprehensive understanding of Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and associated software (SAP and Ariba) including an in-depth understanding of Ariba P2P, Contracts, Sourcing and Analysis (reporting) processes.
- Prepare RFX process, issue and manage bid documents for other categories
- Experience in contract administration and/or management (desirable)
- Actively work with cross functional business units to ensure data taxonomy/naming convention standards are followed and assist with inquiries.
- Perform mass maintenance to cleanse data in the material master.
- In-depth knowledge experience of Ariba on Demand modules/concepts and configurations
- Identify and develop business process requirements, outputs, inputs, steps, and technology interfaces, roles and responsibilities and stakeholders
- Identify, define and conduct strategic, quantitative, and qualitative analyses for improving profitability, scalability and efficiency objectives as it relates to improvement projects
- Experience with Microsoft SQL and analytical tools including Microsoft Power BI in a professional environment.
- Advanced analytical skills with experience collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating abundant information with accuracy
- Develop financial models, analytical tools and business cases to support project delivery
- Ability to draw conclusions and recommendations from analyses performed, and assist management and contract leads and, in the development, and delivery of reports and presentations.
- Desire to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing, results-driven work environment
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills – both written and verbal
- Provide user training for new functionality as needed.
- Maintain strong relationships based on trust, transparency, and results with primary business stakeholders.
Our commitment to you:
At Newcrest, we hold core values that focus on caring about people, working together, and achieving a high-performance culture through innovation and problem solving.
Newcrest’s commitment to diversity and inclusion respects both the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free of discrimination, as well as the cultures, religions, and governing codes applicable to each country in which we operate.
Newcrest promotes a drug and alcohol free work environment through the use of mandatory pre-employment drug and alcohol testing.
Next Steps:
If you share our values and feel that you could make a meaningful difference in this role, submit your application online before the advertised application closing date.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN EXCITING NEW CHALLENGE, JOIN NEWCREST TODAY!