Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Medline is a healthcare products and services company seeking an Analyst Prime Vendor to support customers and sales organizations through business analysis and reporting. The role analyzes pricing, inventory, distribution metrics, and KPI trends; manages customer and vendor relationships; supports contracts and savings projects; resolves operational issues; and develops reporting with Sales, IS, and Finance.
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and develop relationships with the customer, sales teams, and vendor community. Lead/participate in various meetings on behalf of customer (ex. value analysis committee)
- Meet with vendors to discuss products, pricing and terms. Present findings to key contacts in the customer’s procurement team
- Measure the trends, efficiencies and effectiveness of the overall pricing and inventory KPIs
- Support sales team by managing contract terms, assisting with brand conversions, and tracking all savings and projects. Make presentations regarding project updates, business results, committee findings, etc
- Review pricing to determine and identify discrepancies. Ensure new pricing rules are reviewed and approved by respective sales teams
- Provide issue resolution in the following areas (not limited to): inventory surplus, backorders, outstanding invoices. Initiate and partner with the internal teams. Communicate resolution in a timely manner
- Host weekly meetings with supply chain, materials services, and Medline Sales teams
- Collaborate with Sales, IS and Finance to develop, create and maintain reporting requirements and ensure systems provide accurate and timely data
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years of experience in sales analysis and support OR High School Diploma and at least 5 years of experience in sales analysis and support
- Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within, and external to, an organization
- Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions
- Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling)
- Previous analytics experience in the healthcare industry
- Previous inventory or supply chain analytics experience
- Experience providing training and developing process documentation/user manuals
Benefits
- This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible.
- Continuing education & training
- Health insurance for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average
- Life and disability benefits for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average
- 401(k) contributions for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average
- Paid time off for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average
- 401(k) contributions for employees working less than 30 hours per week
- Paid time off for employees working less than 30 hours per week
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program for employees working less than 30 hours per week
- Employee Resource Groups for employees working less than 30 hours per week
- Employee Service Corp for employees working less than 30 hours per week
- Remote work arrangement
- Tools and resources to perform at their best
- Career growth opportunities
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