Procurement Data Scientist

Job description / Role

The role will be to work with existing data to understand its value and extract any insights which may be useful, whilst at the same time consulting on best practice regarding systems, processes and procedures to set the business up for success moving forward.

Client Details

Michael Page Digital have partnered with a leading international business for this role.

Description

* Be able to interact with senior staff from Finance and Functions, such as Marketing or FM Operations etc., across different OPCOs
* Develop a process for gathering data from different parts of the organization in a certain format and through a predefined process
* Setup a process for automating this data gathering going forward
* Data cleansing and preparation
* Aligning with Finance and Functions across different OPCOs on the data gathering, data format, and future process
* Analyzing and visualizing the data in a way that it makes sense for the audience and that conclusions can be drawn from it
* Providing useful data and recommendations in MIS reports
* Being able to confront difficult stakeholders and peer groups, and influence them to be supportive

Job Offer

* A great package and the chance to be part of an exciting project to transform the procurement function of an international business.

Requirements

* Has strong analytics background, ideally from college to current role, e.g. computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics etc.
* Needs to be able to run through vast amounts of 'dirty' data and clean it up and make sense out of it (data lake cleaning and analysis)
* Needs to be able to align with Finance and other stakeholders how data has to be submitted (format, contents, timings, completeness, accuracy)
* Able to visualize identified results in self-designed MIS, allowing management to draw professional strategic conclusions from it
* Must have a solid grasp of a suitable coding language (Python for example)

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.