Procurement Operations Analyst

The Basics:

Procurement Operations Analyst’s drive the rapid and quality execution of key operational tasks within Procurement Operations. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure operational activities are executed rapidly and compliantly. While executing operational tasks you will look for inefficiencies and risks, escalating them to the team for resolution through projects. While participating in projects you will leverage your expertise and knowledge of the operational requirements to suggest meaningful improvements that improve the quality and compliance of operations.  

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Durham, NC

 

What you’ll do:

• Drive quality assurance and control  

  • Review and correct purchase requests using established processes and procedures
  • Review and correct change requests using established processes and procedures
  • Review and correct purchase orders using established processes and procedures
  • Review reports on un-invoiced purchase orders and coordinate invoicing from suppliers
  • Review reports on open purchase orders and coordinate the closing and reopening of purchase orders
  • Conduct testing in Tanium’s procurement system using established processes, procedures, and test scripts 

  Drive compliant onboarding of new vendors 

  • Review and correct vendor onboarding requests using established processes and procedures 
  • Provide support to vendors to facilitate the onboarding, ensuring timely and accurate completion of vendor profiles 

  Execute operational activities 

  • Review assigned tickets and resolve through coordinating with ticket requestor and using established processes, procedures, and step guides
  • Provide support to project management team as needed 
  • Operate various compliance program tasks including data entry, analysis, and reporting
  • Execute routine daily operational tasks in a variety of administrative functions at the direction of manager 

  Win as a Team 

  • Provide burst capacity related to team operational activities
  • Provide support in designing, building, and testing enhancements to Tanium’s procurement system

We’re looking for someone with:

• BA/BS in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Finance, or other related fields required or equivalent demonstrated experience   
•  Proficiency in English 
• 1+ years’ experience in procurement sourcing, purchasing, operations or similar
• General supplier contract review competency
• Experience and understanding of basic accounting principles  
• Experience and understanding of basic procurement contract clauses and contract lifecycles
• Experience and understanding of basic data analysis 
• Strong ability to work on a team and communicate clearly
• Experience training peers on processes and systems at various levels of an organization
•  Proficiency in O365 or Google Suite 
•  Proficiency in Microsoft Projects 
• Proficiency in ZipHQ or other procure to pay tools 
• Experience working with functional leaders and executive stakeholders
• Knowledge and application of Lean / Six Sigma principals to projects and processes a plus and “black belt certification”
• Ability to solve tough problems, quickly 

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About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

What you’ll get 

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $45,000 to $140,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

 

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