Maersk Hiring for Analytics Specialist at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Full Time

Job Description

We are looking for an ‘Analytics Specialist‘ for the Digital procurement team in Mumbai. Spend analytics and spend categorization is a part of the core foundation for the advanced data analytics projects. This role is important in keeping the focus on delivering key projects with advanced analytics using spend categorization data. The role will be responsible for various spend categorization tools/platforms that are used by our procurement stakeholders across various business units. The role will support various advanced analytics project with the expertise and data on spend categorizations.

As part of the procurement analytics team, the position involves working with global team of professionals to identify, design and deliver various solutions using spend and categorization data. You will play an integral role in accelerating the digital ambitions in Maersk Procurement.

Maersk Procurement is a service function within the A.P. Moller Maersk supporting our business units globally. In Maersk Procurement our vision is: “Every dollar spent is spent professionally”.
We offer
Knowledge beyond borders: In Maersk Procurement, we believe in an environment that focuses on individual talent, skills, and interests. We strive to be best in class by utilizing our access to knowledge accumulated in 100+ Maersk countries.
International exposure: It will be an opportunity to have a career as a global procurement professional in a Fortune 500 company. You shall be interacting with several global level stakeholders.
On-the-job learning: You will be given responsibilities right from the start as we promote a steep learning curve across different functions, practices, and domains.
In Digital Procurement, we collaborate with a wide variety of teams and functions globally to understand and address their business needs within the procurement landscape.
Internally, we work with a diverse catalogue of solutions to come up with innovative and hybrid digitization solutions working with a global pool of dedicated team members.
Additionally, we are always on the look out of best in class digital solutions and participate in peer reviews with external organizations and engage established and upcoming solutions providers in the market.
In summary, as part of the team, this role offers adding procurement specific business understanding within a global organization with an opportunity to work and learn on latest technology and innovations in the digital procurement landscape.
We are a dynamic, performance-oriented organization with a down-to earth attitude and approachable management culture. We live our values and build strong teams of people passionate for their job and dedicated to always change for the better.
Key responsibilities
The ‘Analytics Specialist‘ is expected to:

• Perform procurement spend data analytics & reporting.
• Coordinate data collection, preparation, consolidation, uploading and analysis on a regular basis
• Assist in reporting, implementation, and compliance of overall and business specific deliverables
• Improve tracking and reporting capability for spend categorization data within the Maersk procurement function.
• Work with internal stakeholders & procurement operations to perform perception gathering; define a standardized taxonomy for spend data categorization.
• Liaison with external stakeholder and SaaS service providers for data enrichment products.
• Manage the collection and categorization of spend and supplier performance data to deliver consistent and credible analysis to inform category level strategies
• Builds category specific reports to drive category savings levers (e.g., historical spend trends, cost increases, volume spikes, etc.)
• Perform extraction, transform and loads of data from various sources systems using SQL.
• Support advance analytics projects with data gathering and reporting.
• Collaborate with other digital solutions teams to come up with digital products involving advanced analytics concepts to solve business problems.
• Engage stakeholders at various levels to ensure delivery pipeline is managed within reasonable timelines.
• Use data backed insights to share learnings, best practices and improvement suggestions for business based on deployed digitization solutions.

We are looking for
The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of relevant work experience working in a Procurement functions mainly in the spend categorisation and data analytics domain. Key skills for the role are:

• Proven stakeholder management skills.
• Business minded and solution oriented.
• Self-starter and able to work with minimum supervision with solid decision-making abilities
• Detail oriented, ability to plan, prioritize and meet tight deadlines, and measure performance
• Ability to organize, interpret, and analyse large volumes of qualitative and quantitative data
• Ability to identify and assess patterns, trends, root causes & develop explanations
• Experienced in working cross teams and cross functional environments.
• Working knowledge on ETLs using SQL is must.
• Candidates with Data science background with working knowledge of python, R will be preferred.
• Working Knowledge of Power BI and MicroStrategy is a plus.
• Knowledge of working with APIs and SaaS platforms such as Bisnode, D&B, BvD will be a plus.