Sr Analyst, Sourcing

The Global Sourcing team supports seven key categories of goods and services across Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Categories include Technology, Professional Services, Corporate Services/Facilities, Travel, Marketing, Production, and Distribution.Sourcing Senior Analysts are assigned a primary category but will work cross-functionally in an agile sourcing model as trusted advisors supporting enterprise-wide projects that drive value, cost savings, process improvement, and supplier excellence.The ideal candidate will have experience in one or more areas of the end-to-end source-to-contract process starting from opportunity identification, spend analysis, RFx, contract negotiation and renewals, financial review, and supplier management. Candidate must have an agile mindset and have demonstrate competency and character that is fair, inclusive, consistent, transparent, and accountable. The Global Procurement department embraces a learning culture built on trust, collaboration, technology, and process improvements to drive innovation and resilience in our business.Core Responsibilities

Sourcing: Develop category expertise and provide analysis that supports sourcing strategies in various categories for the procurement of goods and services. Support stakeholder meetings by preparing clear, fact-based, executive-level presentations that outline team recommendations.

Business Intelligence: Conducts research to support proactive monitoring of the market. Help identify opportunities from new product offerings or changes in the operating landscape. Attend and learn category best practices from industry associations, peers, and stakeholders.

Spend Analytics: Perform spend analysis to identify trends and opportunities to drive value. Contribute to continuous data enrichment to ensure spend data is accurate and provides useful business intelligence.

eRFx: Support the development of RFx (Requests for Proposals, Quotes, and Information) using bid management platform including collecting requirements, managing bidder communications, and analyzing bid responses within the system.

Negotiations: Support the review and drafting of contract business terms related to scope of work (SOW), service level agreements (SLA) and other business terms through traffic management of documents between corporate legal, infosec, risk, and other SPE departments as needed.

Savings Valuation: Quantify the baseline value of goods and services being sourced, the value of negotiations, and the final change in the total cost of ownership.

Trusted Advisor: Become knowledgeable about department functions to direct business inquiries to the proper teams. Provide support to teams within the department and internal SPE stakeholders by coordinating regular meetings for sourcing strategies, opportunities, and requirements. Proactively develop materials and agendas to maintain good meeting discipline and develop trusted relationships.

Supplier Management: Support management of external supplier relationships by monitoring agreement expirations for renewal and providing visibility to internal stakeholders to determine renewal Evaluate and measure supplier performance and support cyclical and ad-hoc supplier business reviews.

Agile: Continuously look for ways to improve the sourcing process and leverage new ways to drive faster cycle-time, reduce touchpoints, and increase the speed at which SPE does business. Collaborate with business partners, suppliers, and stakeholders to drive an agile process.

Job Requirements

Candidate must have a minimum of 3-4 years of analytics, corporate procurement, purchasing, sourcing, or similar experience.

Must have strong Microsoft Office skills including: Excel (including advance Excel functions), Microsoft Access, and PowerPoint

Must have experience or be willing to learn advanced data analytics (Power-BI, Tableau, etc.)

Must have experience or be willing to learn Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies.

Experience in Media and Entertainment, or Technology-based industries preferred.

Experience with eRFX, Spend Analytics, and Source-to-Contract tools preferred.

Familiarity or subject matter expertise in one of more relevant sourcing categories preferred.

The candidate must be a self-starter who can work independently and proactively identify potential areas for sourcing.

The candidate must demonstrate aspects of the following core competencies:

Trusted Partner

Effective Communicator

Strategic Thinker

Innovative Problem Solver

Change Agent

Learner and Developer

Have an affinity for movies, television, entertainment, media, and content creation.

Education:

Undergraduate Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance or Business required

CPM/CPSM or other similar certifications preferred.

Agile/Scrum/Kanban or other similar certifications preferred.

The anticipated base salary for this position is $80,400-$107,700. This role may also qualify for annual incentive and/or comprehensive benefits. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position.Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.