The Process Validation and Improvement (“PVI”) team is a highly specialized group that plays a lead role in root cause analysis and end-to-end process improvements to mitigate risk for Global Purchasing contracts. PVI is responsible to proactively identify supplier overpayment situations, collaborate with Global Purchasing to recover the overpayment amount and ensure that contracts are updated to reflect accurate contract pricing. The team is aligned with Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering and other supporting staff in carrying out contract pricing accuracy.
Responsibilities of the position include:
- Provide financial analysis and / or support using Global systems to determine the cause of pricing errors on contracts with the supply base
- Analyze ad-hoc reports
- Interface with various levels within the company in both group and individual settings to review cases and key areas where differences are identified between the Purchasing system and the supplier contracts
- Drive closure of open cases and collection of overpayments within stipulated time frame.
- Perform special studies at leadership request.
- Identify and collect at least $4M annual supplier cost recoveries.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of relevant industry experience
- Bachelor’s degree required in data analytics, engineering, computer science, operations management, supply chain or related field
- Self-starter with the ability to influence others, working in teams and independently with customers, cohorts, and partners across many different physical locations
- Demonstrated ability to use a dashboarding tool such as Power BI or Tableau to build customer facing deliverables
- Experience extracting large datasets using SQL
- Working knowledge of Extract Transform Load (ETL) best practices and experience transforming data with Python, Power Query, KNIME or a similar tool
Pay: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Warren, MI 48093
