Procurement Analyst

At Valtris, our purpose is simple: we manufacture and provide specialty chemicals that improve our customers' products and processes; by helping our customers develop innovative and sustainable products. Join our team, and you will be challenged creatively and provided opportunities allowing your career to grow with you.

Job Summary:

The Procurement Analyst will serve as a critical analytical partner within the Supply Chain & Procurement organization, translating procurement data, market information, supplier inputs, and raw material cost drivers into actionable insights. This role will support data-driven decision-making across spend analytics, sourcing pipeline management, raw material cost evaluation, and spend forecasting to improve cost visibility, strengthen sourcing execution, and enable proactive procurement strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spend analytics: Collect, cleanse, classify, and analyze procurement spend data across categories, suppliers, sites, and business units to identify trends, savings opportunities, consolidation opportunities, and compliance gaps.
• Sourcing pipeline management: Maintain and improve the sourcing project pipeline, track initiative status, savings forecasts, timing, owners, risks, and execution milestones, and provide regular updates to procurement leadership.
• Raw material cost evaluation: Analyze raw material price movements, commodity trends, supplier cost inputs, index-based pricing mechanisms, and should-cost assumptions to support negotiations and sourcing decisions.
• Spend forecasting: Develop and maintain spend forecasts based on historical purchasing activity, demand assumptions, pricing trends, supplier inputs, and business outlooks.
• Build reports, dashboards, and recurring procurement scorecards that provide clear visibility to spend, savings, market trends, supplier performance, and sourcing activity.
• Partner with category managers, sourcing leads, finance, operations, planning, and business stakeholders to validate data, interpret results, and convert analysis into procurement actions.
• Support RFQ, RFP, and sourcing event analysis by preparing bid comparisons, pricing models, scenario analyses, supplier summaries, and recommendation materials.
• Track savings, cost avoidance, inflation impacts, and forecast accuracy using consistent assumptions and documented methodologies.
• Monitor supplier pricing, contract terms, renewal dates, volume commitments, and commercial risk factors that may affect procurement cost performance.
• Identify process improvements in reporting, data quality, sourcing pipeline governance, and procurement analytics tools.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, finance, analytics, or a related analytical role.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large datasets, identify patterns, validate assumptions, and communicate insights clearly.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, data modeling, and scenario analysis.
• Experience with ERP, procure-to-pay, sourcing, spend analytics, or business intelligence tools; Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or similar tools preferred.
• Understanding of procurement fundamentals, including spend categories, supplier management, sourcing events, contracts, pricing, and savings tracking.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience analyzing raw materials, chemicals, commodities, packaging, logistics, manufacturing inputs, or other direct material categories.
• Familiarity with commodity indexes, cost drivers, supplier price adjustment mechanisms, and should-cost modeling.
• Experience supporting sourcing pipeline governance, savings reporting, budget planning, or spend forecasting.
• Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, chemical, polymer additives, or specialty materials environments.
• Professional certification or coursework in procurement, supply chain, analytics, finance, or project management.

Core Competencies:

• Analytical rigor: Uses data, logic, and documented assumptions to support recommendations.
• Business partnership: Builds credibility with procurement, finance, operations, and commercial stakeholders.
• Attention to detail: Maintains high data quality and accuracy in reports, forecasts, and savings calculations.
• Commercial mindset: Understands how supplier pricing, market dynamics, and sourcing decisions affect total cost.
• Communication: Converts complex analysis into concise insights, dashboards, and executive-ready summaries.
• Continuous improvement: Looks for ways to simplify processes, automate reporting, and improve sourcing visibility.

We offer a competitive salary and benefit plans focused on the well-being of our employees. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts and 401(k).

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration protected by law.