Business Intelligence Advisor

NTT Global Sourcing, Inc., headquartered in the United States, was established in 2018 by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) to drive impactful financial results through cross-company collaboration, strategic partnerships, and world-class sourcing practices. NTT Global Sourcing's vision is to become the trusted sourcing innovator for every NTT Operating Company by maximizing the power of One NTT.

Our strategy is to align with and work in close partnership with key NTT Operating Companies to leverage the collective sell to, sell through and sell with activities of NTT's top, global suppliers. This allows NTT Global Sourcing to engage in centralized price negotiations and establish global agreements with the best possible terms and conditions, discounts, rebates and other incentives such as investments for training and marketing activities.

Since NTT Global Sourcing was established, the company has helped negotiate global framework agreements with multiple Hardware, Software, Services and Indirect global suppliers on behalf of One NTT.

Responsibilities
• Analyze spending patterns, identify cost-savings opportunities, and provide actionable insights to improve decision making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, interpret data trends, and develop dashboards or reports to communicate findings.
• Understand user requirements, translate complex data into user-friendly reports ensuring data accuracy.
• Create visually compelling and insightful reports, interactive dashboards connecting Tableau or Power BI to SQL and Snowflake.
• Lead or participate in multiple analytical projects or ad-hoc analysis by completing and updating project documentation, managing project scope, adjusting schedules when necessary, determining daily priorities, ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones, following proper escalation paths, and managing customer and supplier relationships.
• Perform Spend analysis by gathering, cleansing, classifying, transforming procurement spend data, providing spend visibility, to facilitate category and spend management.
• Data enrichment/gap fill, standardization, normalization, and categorization of Spend data via research through different sources like internet, specific websites, database etc.
• Data quality check and correction, process, clean, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Stay updated on industry trends and optimize BI tools for efficient performance.
• Write optimized SQL & Snowflake queries for data extraction as well as integration with other applications.
• Design workflows in Alteryx Designer to develop models using data modeling techniques as per requirements.
• Create automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance.
• Create and maintain the documentation of the architecture, data models and maintenance activities.
• Provide technical consulting to the category managers around the industry best practices of product data enhancement.
• Continuous process improvement and efficiency gain using automation or any other process standardization techniques.

Technical Skills & Competencies
• Must have experience working on business analytics or Spend analytics projects as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship building skills & communication skills.
• High proficiency with SQL and database management, Microsoft Excel, advanced excel functionality.
• Visualization capabilities Power BI / Tableau.
• Knowledge about Alteryx Designer tool and Snowflake is preferred.
• Experience in requirements gathering and analysis and defining the implementation roadmap.
• Ability to work remotely with key stakeholders and business partners.
• Preferred to have skills of Project coordination & management.
• Self-motivated with a high degree of learning agility and a team player.

Experience & Education
• Bachelor’s degree in information science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a quantitative discipline in science. Advance degree preferred.
• Minimum 10-15 years of work experience in the fields of data management and analysis.
• At least 5 years of work experience in Procurement data management, Spend analysis, RFP/RPQ/Quote analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with data architecture, data integration/ETL, data warehousing, and/or business intelligence deployed in a complex environment.
• Prior experience working on Reporting/Visualization Tools such as Power BI, Tableau.
• Must have excellent presentation & communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Good research and logical skills. Strong data collection, consolidation, and cleansing skills.
• Ability to scope, plan and execute assigned projects in a fast-paced environment.