Analyst - Benchmarking/RFP

Description

Company Overview

At Procure Analytics, we are passionate about driving continuous value by utilizing cutting-edge technology and implementing customized solutions in various categories to service our 900 member companies. 

Headquartered in Atlanta, Procure Analytics is the leading tech-enabled leveraged procurement organization, leveraging $1.5B in buying power to achieve up-front and ongoing savings for member companies. 

Procure Analytics was founded to address the complex challenges of frequently ignored indirect and tail spend categories. With indirect and tail-spend making up a large percentage of a company’s overall spend; these categories are under-managed and highly complicated for most organizations. 

In the last decade, Procure Analytics has grown from 2 employees and $5 million in total managed spend approximately 100 employees and more than a billion dollars in spend, while maintaining its high-touch service model and member-focus. Procure Analytics has continued to evolve, adding new categories and geographies in response to members’ needs. Procure Analytics is the fastest growing company in its sector.

Procure Analytics’ team serves as an extension of their member organizations, leading change management, driving adoption, and increasing compliance at member locations, while providing analytical tools, savings reporting, and buyer training to drive continuous value growth for mid-size to Fortune 500 companies. These services, resources and data analytics are provided at no cost to members. Procure Analytics services companies across a broad spectrum of sectors with blue-chip customers.

Procure Analytics has a very collaborative, humble, and values-driven culture that upholds these guiding principles:

• Act with integrity and in compliance
• Drive value creation
• Be disciplined entrepreneurs
• Be innovative
• Be accountable
• Treat others with dignity and respect

Strong Private Equity Ownership

In December 2021, Genstar Capital invested in Procure Analytics, along with a large rollover from Bregal Sagemount and the management team.

Genstar Capital is a leading private equity firm that has been actively investing in high quality companies for over 30 years. Based in San Francisco, Genstar has developed a strong market reputation of working in partnership with management teams and its network of strategic advisors to build industry-leading businesses while generating outsized returns. Genstar’s vision is to help build lasting, impactful companies that will continue to succeed well beyond their ownership. 

Genstar currently has approximately $33 billion of assets under management and targets investments focused on targeted segments of the software, industrials, healthcare, and financial services industries. In 2020, Genstar was ranked 2nd worldwide in aggregate private equity fund performance (out of 529 PE firms) and ranked 3rd in 2019 (out of 497 PE firms) by HEC-Dow Jones. For more information, please visit www.gencap.com.

Requirements

Required Skills:

- Strong data management and analysis skills

- Proficient with Excel functions (building pivot tables, handling large data sets, etc.)

- Demonstrated strength in communications with internal and external stakeholders with a focus on customer service

- Ability to work independently with limited direction while managing multiple projects/customers/priorities simultaneously

- Strong presentation skills

- Must be results-oriented while paying close attention to detail

Desired Skills:

- Experience with business intelligence (BI) tools

- Experience with advanced Excel functions (e.g. developing macros)

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering

- 0 – 2 years of work experience

Key Responsibilities:

- Liaison between customers and suppliers to produce business proposal and required documentation for integration into PA program

- Manage and execute various projects for members, including benchmarking, consolidation, categorization, savings analysis, and optimization

- Work with Procure Analytics’ suppliers on pricing analysis to ensure that customers are receiving accurate pricing and comfortable with negotiating an aggressive Total Cost Ownership (TCO) proposal

- Provide timely updates to internal stakeholders and customers on project progress

- Analyze large data sets to identify spend that can be brought into the PA program