Analyst II (Strategy & Business Development) (312002)

At a glance

Procurement is a department in the spotlight it has a very dynamic informal environment, where you can be yourself. Your well-being is important for us to accelerate in this new role. Do you want to be part of ABN AMRO’s journey to implement a new Procurement platform and help shape its processes and activities together with our team? We are building a portal in which our colleagues can buy everything they need, from chairs till IT systems. Do you like to analyze data and visualize the bottlenecks and opportunities? Can you act as a sparring partner within Procurement and challenge our stakeholders by providing new perspectives based on data? Then this is the right job for you!

Your job

Procurement is implementing a new purchasing platform: MyBuy. This platform provides a professional buying experience for all users within ABN AMRO (worldwide) and Subsidiaries 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. Transformation and implement processes in collaboration with our team is big part of your role.
In your role you work with:
• Procurement collaques
• Business lines
• Suppliers
• Stakeholders
You will be responsible for reporting and analysis and also propose and help implement changes in the processes and infrastructure of the MyBuy platform, 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.
The most important parts in your role as a Procurement Operations Analyst:
• Data-analyses
Recommendations, Implementations &Communication

You analyze 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 the Transformation office within Procurement. The MyBuy platform is new and hence and most 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.

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 and share recommendations on 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

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.

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 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
• To inform and advice the business lines, stakeholders, and of course our own team.

Knowledge and skills
• Excel
• Word
• Dataprocessing
• Data analysis
• Data 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
• Analytical skills
• Collaboration with your team, all our stakeholders and scrum teams
• Client focus, focus on our Suppliers and buyers activities in the business lines
• Communication: Dutch and Fluent in English
• Courage

We offer

• Great place to work!
• 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 Ronald.F..Landman@nl.abnamro.com

Gelijke kansen voor iedereen

Het succes van onze organisatie staat of valt met de kwaliteit van onze mensen en de ideeen die zij hebben. Echt verrassende inzichten en innovatieve oplossingen voor onze klanten ontstaan door een samenspel van culturen, kennis en ervaring. Daarom is diversiteit voor onze organisatie ontzettend belangrijk. Om ervoor te zorgen dat alle collega's binnen ABN AMRO hun kwaliteiten kunnen ontplooien, stimuleren we een inclusieve cultuur waarin iedereen zich betrokken en gewaardeerd voelt.

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