Analyst, Procurement Data

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Primary Purpose of the Position

The Data Analyst’s primary purpose is to analyze and interpret data, create information insights to enable procurement decisions.  This role gathers requirements and information from various sources, interprets patterns and trends using advanced digital tools and methods, and provides comprehensive overviews to support internal stakeholders.  Contributes to improving methods and processes the company uses to obtain and analyze data by providing recommendations to enhance the quality and efficiency of Ball’s business applications and data sources.

Essential Responsible Areas:

• Establish data request templates for efficient and effective intake of requests from procurement colleagues and management
• Work with colleagues and management to understand business analysis needs and clearly document requirements for analyses to be developed
• Develop processes and tools for initial and ongoing data collection in support of business analysis requirements not addressed by current systems
• Work with IT, Finance and other stakeholders as needed to develop extracts from current business applications and data sources
• Work with colleagues and management to identify data problems and implement remedies as needed
• Using digital tools and techniques, analyze data, interpret results and provide ongoing analysis
• Define advanced data collection and analysis processes, including digital and AI approaches
• Deliver reporting and visualization capabilities to address category management, regional and business unit information needs
• Provide functional and category analytics both routinely and on an ad-hoc basis as required
• Optimize statistical accuracy and reliability by continuously improving data collection approaches, analysis processes, and related strategies.  Synthesize, summarize, and interpret information from multiple sources (historical, forecast, internal and external)
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Identify and propose process improvement opportunities based on analysis findings

Position Requirement & Competencies:

• Undergraduate degree required.  Graduate degree and/or a specialization in analytics or data science a plus
• 3-5 years of work experience in similar data analysis roles
• Bilingual: Spanish/English
• Background in consulting a plus
• Ability to analyze large data sets and recognize patterns in data, information, or events to draw logical conclusions and make recommendations
• Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including but not limited to quantitative (financial and non-financial) and qualitative analysis of internal and external data to support the strategies of the Procurement organization
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to present information in a clear and concise manner and to create comprehensive presentations
• Strong knowledge of and experience with advanced digital/AI tools in business intelligence (e.g. Tableau, Qlik, Power BI) and data analysis (e.g. Alteryx, SAS)
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

 Compensation & Benefits

-  Hiring Salary Range: $ xxx,xxx- xxx,xxx (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
-  [This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.]
- Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
No agencies please.

Job Grade: Global Grade 10