Procurement Analyst MyBuy

At a glance

Do you want to be part of ABN AMRO’s journey to implement a Procurement platform and help shape it’s processes and activities together with our team? Do you like to analyze data and visualize the bottlenecks and opportunities? Are you that sparring partner that can provide new perspectives based on data? Then this is the job for you!

Your job

Procurement is implementing a new purchasing platform: MyBuy. This platform provides all users in ABN AMRO a professional buying experience and combines it with best value purchases for the bank. The objective is to be in control on spend & risk and facilitate an effective, efficient buying process for the entire bank. As a Procurement Operations Analyst, you will be one of our key-players in its success!

You analyse data obtained from multiple data files, combine data with other sources, analyze and interpret this to obtain valuable information that can help drive change and continuous improvement for Procurement, Finance, Contract owners and the business. Therefore you work closely together with Scrum teams and our colleagues from Transformation office within Procurement. The MyBuy platform and many of the related processes are new. You will therefore not only analyze data, but also come up with a way to get relevant information out of the system, and create new reporting from scratch.. Together with your team you will make this big project a success!

You develop models together in collaboration with our Scrum team and Transformation office, you will use data to visualize bottlenecks or specific opportunities and develop a culture of data driven continuous improvement. Many teams are involved and are helping to make this big project a success.

You perform analyses in which you draw conclusions and make recommendations. In your capacity as a sparring partner for the management, who depend on your analyses, you are constantly on the lookout for new insights and data sources that may provide such insights. With your Continuous Improvement skills you therefore initiate discussions about new perspectives and you provide advice on course of action. You also share responsibility with your team to implement the decisions that are made.

Your team

Procurement is a dynamic department where you can be yourself and has a informal working environment. The MyBuy Support team is a new team that centralizes all expertise and communication around our Purchase-to-Pay processes and systems. You will work in this diverse team, divided in different focus areas: Ordering & Invoicing, Master Data and a Help Desk. You will work in an open, dynamic, service oriented environment together with flexible and service oriented colleagues. You want to provide an excellent service but are not afraid to challenge and to provide and explain guidelines and direction. You are capable to help and coach your team and you are a sparring partner for the Team Lead and the Head of Operational Procurement. You will report directly to the Head of Operational Procurement.

You will be responsible for reporting and analysis, but your multidisciplinary skills allow you to work across the team. It is a workplace where you will continuously be challenged to be the best you can be and where you will be empowered to grow. A working environment where you can and may make the difference.

Your profile

You like change and you work best in a dynamic environment. We are in a change mode, so this requires you to be flexible, creative and sometimes ‘work with what you have’, to later return and optimize it.
You are level-headed and a team player. You find it no effort to perform under pressure and you are flexible within a 36-hour work week. You are not just service oriented but you focus on results and know how to assess, present, process and control possible risks together with the team.

Our main data processing, analysis and visualization tools are Excel and Power BI. We want advanced competencies with these tools, i.e. experience and proven ability to:

• Extract and import data from multiple sources
• Validate, enhance and analyze data using advanced filters and pivot tables
• Create powerful business insights using graphs
• Set up routines to efficiently repeat and continuously improve
• Single point of contact for all data regarding MyBuy
  

Knowledge and skills

• Data processing
• Data analysis
• Visualization
• Continuous improvement (Lean)
• Advisory skills: question and understand critical processes and performance indicators relevant to Procurement and Finance, formulate recommendations for actions and improvement
• Knowledge of reporting and BI reporting: Basic Finance and/or Procurement knowledge: not a hard requirement, can be beneficial, but can also be developed
• Knowledge of SAP ERP (ECC) and/or SAP Ariba is beneficial and can be developed
  

Soft skills – What you require Need more detail, or link better to the job when & where used?

• Analytical skills
• Dynamic
• Collaboration
• Judgment
• Autonomy
• Client focus
• Communication: English language command
• Courage
• In short we are looking for a dynamic new colleague who likes to improve and makes our team better.

We are offering

• The opportunity to be the best you can be and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
• Possibilities for flexible working hours and work from home are negotiable. We offer good facilities for remote working.
• The opportunity to pro-actively work on your vitality and fitness
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• A solid pension plan

At ABN AMRO, we use our knowledge, expertise and network for clients so that they can achieve their goals based on responsible decisions. Both in,- and outside the Netherlands. Customer interests always come first. We want customers to understand our products and we sometimes say 'no' when the risk of a product is too high for a customer. The customer's interest is also clear communication and coming up with smart solutions that really make a difference. That is our goal.

Interested?

Are you in? Are you going to assist us? Apply now and let us meet we are happy to meet you! Do you have any questions don’t hesitate to mail or call; Jeroen.Beekman@nl.abnamro.com.

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. In addition, a recruitment agency can only submit a resume when invited by a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join the search for a right candidate. All unsolicited resumes sent to us will be considered property of ABN AMRO BANK N.V. In this case, ABN AMRO will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.