Procurement Analyst

Join Our Global Procurement Team!

Do you enjoy working with a globally distributed, diverse pool of stakeholders and supporting them with your expertise? Are you an analytical mind able to manage complex transactions? Join our Global Procurement Team!

The Procurement Team owns Akamai's end-to-end supply-chain process. We establish and maintain stakeholder relationships internally and externally. We manage our suppliers to best optimize our investments and supply base. Through effective sourcing and negotiation, we constantly enable and deliver value capture (cost-saving/avoidance).

Partner with the best

Please note: This is a 1-year fixed-term contract opportunity.

This position involves collaboration with the procurement team, IT team, global business leaders, finance teams, accounting, and international employees.

As a Procurement Analyst, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring adherence to company policies by promoting effective procurement processes and systems.
• Analyzing spend data to uncover opportunities for reducing costs and recognizing emerging trends effectively.
• Ensuring accurate maintenance of procurement records, databases, and reports while adhering to established standards and procedures.
• Monitoring sourcing projects and purchase orders for policy and contract compliance
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders (IT, Finance, Legal) to support procurement activities
• Preparing standard procurement reports and dashboards and supporting process improvements
• Delivering excellent customer service to procurement teams and business stakeholders

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2+ years of relevant experience in procurement
• Demonstrate expertise in the Microsoft Office suite, with particular emphasis on Microsoft Excel.
• Demonstrate expertise with ERP or procurement systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Coupa, Ariba)
• Be familiar with spend analysis and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, effectively gathering, synthesizing, and summarizing data with precision and clarity.
• Exhibit exceptional teamwork and communication abilities, showcasing proficiency in English.
• Be able to work independently learn quickly and manage multiple activities concurrently
• Have proven experience managing multi-region customers and suppliers, including a diverse supplier base

About Us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone. Our focus is simple:

• Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
• Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
• Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
• AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.