Work directly with the sales team, supplier analysts, and vendors to capture and analyze data
Interpret customer’s existing contracts in order to cross-reference current pricing and services to the applicable CoreTrust contract offering
Complete analyses per customer’s specific needs and/or sales team’s requests
Create category-specific summaries to easily illustrate savings opportunities
Communicate key insights and findings in customer’s contracts and identify business opportunities
Work with the sales team to measure pre-engagement estimated savings opportunity as well as the post-engagement savings validations
Become fluent in all categories that flow through the Cost Analytics department
Learn new processes (manual and automated) to increase efficiencies across category portfolio
Provide feedback to manager and/or cross-departmental analysts to enhance analysis tools
Assist with ad hoc requests from management
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
2+ years of work experience as a data, business, or financial analyst
Expert or strong working proficiency in Microsoft Excel – able to perform vlookups, hlookups, pivot tables, and more
Exposure and familiarity with a variety of technology platforms a plus
Experience with one or more of the following preferred: Microsoft Office, Power BI, Power Query, Power Pivot, SQL, relational databases, and reporting tools
Strong organizational and process analysis skills
Proficient understanding of performing opportunity analysis of proposals using financial formulas