Purchasing Analyst

PURPOSE
Under guidance, assist with the identification of opportunities from vendor expenditure, and work with colleagues to realize benefits for a variety of purchasing category initiatives. Ensure adherence to the Quintiles Transnational corporate purchasing policy which encourages vendor competition.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Tasks related to resolution of outstanding invoices.
• Assis stakeholders and vendors with questions concerning usage of Procure to pay Systems.
• Extract spend data from accounts payable or other databases and create spend reports.
• Prepare data templates for creation of baselines and provide templates to vendor to populate with line item spend details.
• Work with functional stakeholders to identify requirements, identify purchasing process steps and timetable for completion of the project.
• Under guidance, prepare and issue competitive Requests for Information or Requests for Proposals and negotiate the best commercial terms.
• Prepare and present purchasing recommendations to purchasing management.
• Collect data from issue logs to feed into vendor performance reports and organize monthly and quarterly meetings for vendor management programs.
• Ensure purchase orders comply with contract terms and work to improve the efficiency of the purchase to pay process.
• Perform other duties as assigned.