Purchasing Support Analyst

Job Title: Purchasing Analyst

Location: Southfield, MI

Work Arrangement: ON-SITE

Tenneco is one of the world's leading designer, manufacturers, and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 65,000 team members working at more than 200 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, DRiV, Performance Solutions, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

The Purchasing Support Analyst will direct and control the purchasing efforts for the Indirect Material Commodities of DRiV Motorparts. This role will understand and effectively communicate business needs and drivers to maintain continuity of DRiV Indirect Procurement and its efficacy in delivering value to the organization. This role will partner with all manufacturing and distribution locations, and other cross-functional team members, to drive improvement in weekly and monthly reporting activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as central point of contact for Purchasing to handle supplier creation requests ensuring proper commodity, spend, function and notification to commodity manager
• Assist with submitting any vendor address and/or vendor banking updates as needed
• Manage supplier creation process documenting procedure to train sites on minimum requirements and step by step process
• Develop weekly reporting template / standard for tracking of key procurement indicators such as savings, working capital, supplier consolidation, sourcing ratio etc.
• Update and manage tracking for changes in WAVE forecasts to identify leakage areas as well as gross modifications daily.
• Lead & facilitate calls commodity managers and plant controllers to update forecasting / actuals in WAVE for reporting and for weekly reporting template weekly and as needed.
• Support and manage PO price discrepancies with commodity manager, vendor and AP to resolve past due payment issues
• Facilitate implementation of catalogs for Indirect Procurement in Ivalua. Price list management for catalog will be a key activity.
• Monitoring Key Supplier accounts to ensure that payments are up to date
• Support commodity managers to run spend reporting for strategy development by plant / region
• Manage procurement operations reporting deck to support Procurement Director as needed.
• Support internal audits for procurement activities on a quarterly basis regionally
• Enforce Tenneco's Supplier Requirements
• Maintaining the confidentiality of all information
• Bringing any potential fraud to the attention of management - internal or external
• Identify, document, and recommend ways to all procurement processes for reporting, managing data, inputs to SAP for PO's etc.

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

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  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or equivalent field of discipline
  
  
  
  

Experience:

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  • Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in procurement, supply chain or similar role
  • Demonstrated background and proven experience with managing large amounts of data an systems and manipulation with pivot tables, v_lookup or BOT programming
  • Demonstrated background and proven experience with negotiations and analytical skills
  
  
  
  

Skills:

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  • Demonstrated background and proven experience with negotiations and analytical skills
  • Working with and/or leading team to drive resolution to supplier invoice disputes
  • Ability to utilize Microsoft Office and navigate ERP systems (i.e.. SAP and other)
  
  
  
  

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.