Chemicals & Resins Analyst - Procurement

Role Details

Requisition ID: 56173

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This role in summary

Whirlpool is seeking a qualified candidate for the role of Analyst, Procurement in Benton Harbor, MI.

This Analyst position is a procurement position for individuals demonstrating consistent use and understanding of cost drivers, financial analysis, market dynamics, and competitive tension. The Analyst will support $750M in spend analytics to provide detailed forecasts to the business on North American Chemicals & Reins purchasing.

Your responsibilities will include

• Accurate forecasting, planning, and communication of the overall changes in the market and supply base sourcing

• Successfully coordinate and translate market trends and supplier pricing with the commodity team to generate an accurate monthly forecast

• Utilize SAP to enter accurate data and run queries to analyze the data for validation and communication to leadership on the variances month to month

• Create simplified processes to continue to enhance and improve the forecasting and validation process

• Provide accurate reporting necessary to keep leadership informed of the monthly variances along with risks and opportunities

• Support the team with raw material settlement invoice payments through accurate validation

• Forecast monthly for the North American Chemicals & Resins Team

• Enter pricing into SAP, run queries, and validate the forecast on a monthly basis

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 6+ months of experience (including academic, internship, or coop) in Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Business or Engineering

Preferred skills and experiences

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Business or Engineering

• 2+ years of experience in Sourcing, Procurement or Supply chain

• Proven communication, negotiation, conflict resolution and management skills

• Strong analytical and computer related skills

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple key activities

• Ability to quickly build strong rapport and relationships with internal process partners and suppliers

• Ability to grow in your technical abilities to become a subject matter expert in Chemicals & Resins

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Additional information

Employees in this role can work a hybrid schedule of three core days in office and two days remote. This enables employees to come together to collaborate in-person and gives employees the added flexibility to work remotely

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