Analyst, National Procurement Jobs

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Alimentation Couche-Tard (“Couche-Tard”) is a global leader in convenience and mobility, operating in 24 countries and territories, with more than 14,300 stores and 122,000 employees. Its mission is to make its customers’ lives a little easier every day. Under well-known banners “Couche-Tard and “Circle K”, it is one of the largest independent convenience store operators in the United States as well as a leader in Canada, Scandinavia, the Baltics and Ireland.

The procurement analyst supports the director of national procurement and the Manager National Procurement by collecting and analysing data, including providing direction feedback from data collected. Accuracy will be highly important, to facilitate the decision process. The analyst will also produce follow-up reports and periodic performance including purchases, sales, suppliers’ rebates, growth, margins etc. Additional tasks for this role would be: Running RFP when required, Monthly, quarterly and annually reporting, communications with internal departmental stakeholders and suppliers, updating national contracts electronically and manually. The analyst will be in direct relations with the three Canadian business units and all national suppliers.

What You’ll Do

Reporting to the Manager, National Procurement, the Analyst will:

• Keep business agreements up-to-date and communicate with suppliers. Ensure adequate reporting to comply with all national procurement processes including synergy reports to each of our business entities.
• Lead the annual contract synergy process communicating and summarizing to stakeholders for approval.
• Managing our UGI buying group scorecard and payments.
• Use other related skills as an assistant to the Director and Manager of National Procurement.
• Use communication skills in face-to-face or video meetings, telephone conversations and general technical communications with suppliers.
• Identify trends through purchase analysis, retail prices, vendor discounts and create graphic and financial chart models for the analysis of each of our categories and suppliers.
• Analyze category profitability using ACT's financial analysis systems, such as our Business Intelligence (BI) system, or AC Nielsen (external market data collection system) to produce periodic or ad hoc reports on the category and/or suppliers.
• Run RFP’s as required for Canada, including collecting needed data from internal stake holders to frame the scope, launching the RFP and communicating with vendors to collect RFP data needed, and to provide final analysis and recommendation to stake holders on the RFP outcome.
• Ensure data accuracy by working with business units and the procurement network, participating in internal meetings and updating changes to data requests.
• Participate in benchmarking exercises comparing data sets from one region or one vendor to another.
• Reporting through the collection, compilation, analysis and presentation of information.
• Manage the many growth-related performance programs we have implemented with our suppliers on a quarterly and annual basis, including providing alerts around potential missed opportunity gaps.
• Prepare mid-year perspective, budget, annual business plan, and more.

What You’ll Need

We want you to join our team! Here’s what we’re looking for:

Experience

Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience

Education

College/university degree or commensurate training and experience in data science / analyst field or a directly related field.

Knowledge And Skills

• Good knowledge of the Ariba RFP system.
• Someone who is able to perform cost analysis and provide recommendations based on that and skillful in managing procurement cost and saving strategies.
• Someone who is comfortable negotiating terms, conditions and performance metrics with suppliers.
• Good knowledge of Business intelligence tools such as PowerBI.
• Ability to sort data in Excel to create templates, graphs and financial tables for clear and detailed use of PowerPoint presentations.
• Ability to communicate with members of the marketing team, supplier senior levels, and Directors in the company.
• Good knowledge of IT, including the Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to assess supplier capabilities and overall performance to ensure reliable partnership.
• Some one who is able to tell stories with large datasets.
• Proactive, action-oriented and forward-thinking.
• Someone who is very detail oriented and can work under pressure and balance multiple projects.
• Someone who is able to evaluate tenders and create scorecards for evaluations and present recommendations to stakeholders.

Language Skills

Bilingual (French and English)

WHY WORK WITH US

Here’s Some Of The Exciting Perks We Offer

Our store and office employment opportunities offer you quick career growth with an international company, plus a dynamic work environment that puts people first. Wherever you are in your journey, we have a place for you.

• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and to evolve professionally in a fast-growing company
• Paid time off plan including vacation, sick days and personal days
• Possibility of enrolling in a pension plan with employer contributions or a stock purchase plan
• Complete benefits packages (medical and dental included)
• Work in a collaborative, dynamic and high performing team

This position can be based out of any of the following offices: Calgary, Toronto or Laval.

We thank all candidates for their interest in this position; only those selected will be contacted.

Couche-Tard attaches great importance to diversity in the workplace and supports the principle of employment equity by encouraging applications from designated groups, i.e., women, Aboriginal people, people with disabilities and people from visible minorities.

Couche-Tard/Circle K values diversity and inclusion and aims to create a safe, accessible and rewarding workplace that showcases the unique contribution of our employees to the success of our business. As an employer, we are committed to employment equity, we encourage a wide variety of applications to ensure that we have a diverse workforce that is representative of the customers and the communities we serve. Accommodations are available upon request for applicants who participate in all aspects of the selection process.

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