Procurement Business Analyst

Smurfit Westrock is the global leader of paper-based packaging solutions. With more than 100,000 employees, 500 converting operations, and 63 mills across 40 countries, we provide our customers with an expansive range of distinctive, innovative products.

Primary Duties

• Support the Procurement Community’s business requests, prioritising enablement, CI, automatization and high value projects.
• Enable the Procurement Community by designing and maintaining BI tools, metrics and dashboards to support strategic decision making and ensure compliance.
• Be proficient with the different Procurement applications and able to provide training and guidance to the Procurement Community.
• Has a deep understanding of the Procurement Policies, definitions, tools and metrics and is able to provide training and guidance to the Procurement Community.
• Support the CoE leadership in benchmarking Procurement best practices and applications.
• Support data harmonisation, data maintenance and, when applicable, data creation.
• Help onboard and provide support/training to new Procurement Team Members.

Category Support Focus

• Support Category playbooks creation and maintenance (Market Intel, Should Cost Model).
• Run Sourcing Events on behalf of the central team.
• Own the Harmonised Material Taxonomy.

Role Qualifications

• Graduate calibre preferably with a business and/or technical degree. qualification in a Supply Chain related subject is an advantage.
• Good general business acumen.
• Skilled in using Procurement Applications (Sourcing Tools, CLM) and Data Management Tools (Power Suite, Tableau, Python)
• Strong communicator able to work with and engage multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical mind with an ability to sort and input information with accuracy and speed.
• Be self-motivated, standards driven, with a keen eye for detail and be computer literate (Office). Ability to prioritise workload and manage multiple projects across multiple locations.
• Fluency in English language is essential. Proficiency in any other European language is a plus.
• Must be able to travel frequently.