Work Location Type: Hybrid
As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we're dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.
Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we're looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.
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Position Details:
We ask that you have holistic business understanding, systemic thinking, analytical mindset, cross functional collaboration, and strong problem-solving skills. You will have responsibility in providing insights that help Supplier Management to prioritize work, identify opportunities and risks, and use standard tools and reports that support standard work. You will report to the Manager- Procurement Analytics and work with Supplier Management leaders to develop, establish and maintain its global procurement insights and analytics through standardization and digitalization.
You will report to the Manager, Analytics & Insights.
This is a hybrid position and is onsite 3 days a week in Lake Forest or Chicago, IL.
You Will:
- Develop tools that help weigh decisions, recommendations, and actions against their material impact on the bottom line
- Collaborate and work with team member across supplier management to improve cost management, ensure reliable supply, and ignite profitable growth
- Help to improvement standardized processes across multiple departmental projects that help guide efficiency gains for team members
- Help with strategic planning, review, and implementation to ensure portfolio recommendation is deployed across the business
- Use data and market insights to meet end-to-end needs across the business to improve customer and team member experience
- Ensure new tool development enables standard work and is additive to the productivity and effectiveness of Supplier Managers
You Have:
- BS/BA degree in engineering, technology, marketing, or business preferred. MBA preferred
- 5+ years business experience with a working knowledge of Supply Chain Management, Cost Accounting, Finance and Economics
- Experience managing large data sets and utilizing advanced analytical tools to construct compelling narratives
- Comfortable building and delivering presentations to management, staff and field audiences
- Must understand Our business direction, customer requirements, supply management-marketing strategy, and demand generation fulfillment process
- Experience driving and demonstrating results financially, strategically and managerially
- Clear understanding of suppliers, customers, Grainger's strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Can apply thought process to construct executable plans
- Clear knowledge of the negotiation process and important stages: Set expectations. Maintain relationships.
- Change Management skills- inspiring teams to welcome change, embrace new directions, and future opportunities. Anticipate change and prepare for it by defining goals, responsibilities and time frames
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
- Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year
- Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period
- Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement
- A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.