The Opportunity

As our local procurement data and insights expert, you will be the Procurement Team's “Go To” for critical Procurement data and information. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to help develop fellow team members by providing support, training, and mentoring on our data applications.

The Procurement Team

Our Vision & Mission:

The MassMutual Procurement vision is to be a trusted partner, who proactively engages with the enterprise to create sustainable supplier value. We enable business strategy through leading operational, process, governance, cost and risk management excellence.

This is an exciting time to join our Procurement Team. We are currently undergoing a transformation of our Procurement function to become best in class for contract lifecycle management and Source-to-Pay processes.

The Impact

The Data & Insights Consultant will collect, clean, maintain and analyze all relevant procurement-related data to provide business insights and trends which may be leveraged by their peers for sourcing, category management, supplier diversity and for tracking relevant industry/price or supplier relationship management.

Key responsibilities for this critical role include:

• Support cost savings or cost avoidance by creating analytics or other automation solutions to deliver (semi) automated and customizable reporting at scale

• Translate complex business questions into problems that can be solved through data to drive growth and profitability

• Support strategy and procurement optimization processes by providing data insights measuring procurement and supplier performance and providing recommendations for actions

• Perform procurement analytics to deliver actionable insights to larger procurement team to enable significant business impact

• Ability to use advanced knowledge of data sources, tools, statistical principles/methodologies and techniques to improve business outcomes

• Strong written & oral communication, and collaboration skills that enable clear and concise communication of data issues and analyses that can be understood by a broad audience

• Collect and analyze internal data such as spend and customer requirements, historic spend data, and trends and patterns

• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders and cross-functional partners

• Create and communicating KPI reports on a regular basis based on a defined list of KPIs

• Serve as a single Point of Contact for category/sourcing managers and functional leads for providing category-specific spend reports

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills linking issue resolution to process improvement

• Data gathering, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills, including business process metrics and measures linking to business key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Ability to incorporate Procurement applications and tools (like Ariba) to enable, improve and scale procurement reporting process across the organization

• Deliver ad hoc requests, special projects, reporting, and status inquiries

• Develop and conduct user training on analytical tools and dashboards

The Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with procurement

• Expertise in data and analytics

• Proficient at developing reporting

• Experience with SAP Ariba & Spend Visibility

The Ideal Qualifications 

• 8+ years of experience working with procurement

• 4+ Expertise in data and analytics

• Experience with Archer, Ariba, Process Unity, Access, MS Office, Tableau and iCertis

• Knowledge of S2P processes

• Knowledge of data science

• Data Modeling experience

• Proven experience with complex statistical predictive modeling, strong story telling skills to deliver actionable insight.

• Ability to lead vendor data ingestion through sftp and API, experience with designing analytics

• Experience in prototyping and developing reports using data visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, Microstrategy

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Procurement Team:

• Regular meetings with key stakeholders including; Legal and Enterprise Technology & Experience (ETX)

• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager

• Access to mentorship opportunities

• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, Veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups

• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms

• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits

About MassMutual

We've been around since 1851. During our history, we've helped millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection, and plan for the future.

Today, we continue to develop meaningful relationships with our customers by building their trust, being knowledge problem solvers and always prioritizing their needs. MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company owned by our policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to put customers first. It's more than our company structure – it's our way of life.  

MassMutual was recognized as an Ethisphere 2020 World's Most Ethical Company, a Top Place to Work in 2020 according to The Boston Globe and named among America's Best Employers for Diversity according to Forbes 2020.

MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status

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Salary Range: $111,300.00 - $146,400.00

MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.