Strategic Buying Services Analyst II

The Strategic Buying Services team is a highly specialized group that plays a lead role in supplier overpayment root cause analysis, and end to end process improvements to mitigate risk for GM Global Purchasing contracts.  Buying Services Analyst is responsible to proactively identify supplier overpayment situations, collaborate with Global Purchasing and Supply Chain to recover the overpayment, and ensure that contracts are updated to reflect accurate contract pricing.  Work requires collaboration with purchasing, finance, technical accounting, and engineering.

Responsibilities: 

• Analyze contracts to identify contract errors and recovery opportunities
• Deliver high-quality audit results to communicate the contract issues to purchasing
• Work with key stakeholders to review audit results and agree on recovery approach 
• Support purchasing in negotiations with suppliers
• Drive timely closure of open audits and recovery of overpayments 
• Meet targets on key metrics including contract touch rate, study aging, and cost recoveries
• Analyze Base Material Indexation on contract 
• Perform special studies as requested by stakeholders
• Lead automation project to improve efficiency 

Qualifications 

Minimum Requirements

• Intermediate to advanced level in Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and Conditional formatting
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Strong oral and written communications skills 
• Problem solving mindset, critical thinking, and strong analytical abilities 
• Curiosity and energy to learn new processes and technical skills at a rapid pace
• Ability to prioritize assignments to meet deadlines, while delivering quality work 
• Process improvement mindset and Ability to work independently
• Able to work full time, 40 hours per week
• Bachelor’s degree or five years of experience demonstrating proficiency with minimum requirements in a professional setting.

• A broad knowledge of automotive manufacturing processes and principles, including but not limited to plastic / injection molding, high pressure / low pressure die casting, stamping, electronics, subcomponent assembly, and large module system assembly. An understanding of expected manufacturing cost factors such as labor, burden, and material as well as commercial items such as SG&A and profit is a plus. 

Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments - creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them. You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day.

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