Merchandise Systems Procurement Analyst
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The Procurement Systems Analyst serves as the business owner of the procurement systems used by the merchant organization. This position works closely with Information Technology (IT) to resolve system issues, and identify, prioritize and implement system enhancements to ensure the applications are meeting the needs of the business. The Procurement Systems Analyst leads new hire system and process training and hosts refresher sessions as needed. This position is responsible for tracking merchant adoption of new purchasing tools and identifying and overcoming roadblocks to system utilization.
JOB DUTIES
Responsibilities include:
- Business owner for merchant procurement systems: Joor, PO Manager, PORT, Oracle RMS PO and Allocation.
- Be a champion of new systems and business processes, leading the merchants through the change.
- Develop short term goals, and a long term roadmap, to increase vendor adoption of the Joor application.
- Work closely with the merchant community to identify retraining, reporting and system improvements.
- Identify business processes changes to improve efficiencies.
- Ensure training documentation is kept current with new system functionality.
- Lead the Executive Development Program procurement training sessions; retrain existing users as needed.
- Keep on top of industry trends in procurement processes by leveraging relationships with other retailers, software providers, vendors etc.
- Partner with the Manager of Foundation Data to identify improvements in the item induction process.
- Document business requirements for all system enhancements to ensure functionality delivered by IT meets the business need.
- Approve code deployments, assisting with application training as needed.
- Escalate issues that impact a high volume of users or create down-stream impacts to Director .
- Perform additional tasks as required.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Strong leadership, communication, customer service, and organization skills
- Flexible and able to perform in a fast paced, changing environment
- Strong Excel skills
- Understanding of concepts related to market buy activities, purchase order management, vendor relationships, item set up and attributes
- Functional/Technical skills
- Process Management
- Strategic Business Process Improvements
- Progressive with an innovative approach
- Self-motivated and action/results oriented
- Managing and measuring work
- Oracle RMS and Allocation experience a plus
- 5+ years of retail experience as an Assistant Buyer, Department Manager, Planner, or other similar positions
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required.