Sourcing Analyst

The Sourcing Analyst I position plays a critical role in supporting the company's sourcing and procurement strategy. This role is responsible for analyzing pricing and spend data, supporting supplier performance management, identifying cost saving opportunities, and assisting with category strategy execution. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross functional teams.

Additional Information

The travel for this position is 5% or 10%.

This role is not remote/hybrid. This role will report to Sherwin-Williams Morikis Global Technology Center located at 6745 Miller Road, Brecksville, OH 44141 or 1101 South 3rd Street Minneapolis, MN 55415.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

• Provide support for the categories of Industrial Resin Raw Materials (including Toller).
• Generate reports using various Microsoft software applications and other Business Intelligence and ERP system tools.
• Assist with maintaining specific departmental components of the supply chain, such as inventory tracking, vendor management, process issues, information technology, and related areas.
• Develop and maintain a variety of reports such as vendor lists, performance history, price quotes, and other information.
• Keep manager informed of work problems and issues; report on project progress.
• Maintain detailed and accurate records.
• Enter and maintain savings and technical projects within the systems.
• Coordinate document and sample requests from the business teams.
• Assume responsibility for the completion of assigned duties.
• Develop and maintain a standardized pricing analysis process and determine impact of supplier price changes.
• Maintain current vendor pricing in the appropriate ERP system as directed by the Sourcing Managers.
• Review and resolve invoices with pricing errors with Sourcing Manager final approval.
• Maintain current pricing in the numerous Pricing databases.
• Review and resolve invoice pricing discrepancies while interacting with Accounts Payable personnel and/or suppliers to proactively take actions that will prevent recurrence.
• Maintain and support eBusiness initiatives including paperless purchasing and consignment inventory rollouts.
• Update and maintain records for cost savings initiatives utilizing project software; Interface with Technical, Operations, and Business Unit counterparts to track project progress and timelines; Assist Finance team with validation of reported savings as necessary.
• Develop and maintain the Supplier Relationship Management System to improve communications between HQ and suppliers.
• Meet with suppliers to present overviews of various eBusiness platform programs, answer questions and provide support to anticipate and/or resolve issues or concerns.
• Communicate with suppliers about eBusiness initiatives, including pricing and problem resolution.
• Assist with analyzing and comparing vendors/supplier performance; recommend changes to management.
• Manage (or assist with) special projects, which may include compiling and analyzing targeted data, reviews and assessments of processes or operations or developing special reports. Creates detailed reports on findings and recommendations.
• Assist with resolution of supply issues which may include tracking of orders and delivery dates as necessary.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future
• Must have a bachelor's degree or higher
• Must have at least one (1) year of experience using Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and/or Outlook)

Preferred Qualification:

• Have two (2) years of work experience working in a Sourcing, Payables, Receivables, Customer Service, Supply Chain or Manufacturing environment
• Have prior experience with existing Enterprise Performance Management (ERP) software
• Have at least one (1) year of work experience using Microsoft Excel, including writing formulas, formatting and sorting data, creating pivot tables and importing/exporting excel data to and from proprietary software
• Have strong working experience in developing and analyzing reports using Business Intelligence
• Have working experience in experience in chemicals industry
• Multi-Lingual