# Purchasing Analyst 1 **Company**: IQVIA Laboratories **Experience**: entry **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: €18,900.00 - €28,300.00 **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://iqvia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IQVIA/job/Bratislava-Slovakia/Purchasing-Analyst-1_R1542317?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1e34a5e6-9bd ## Description IQVIA Laboratories is a global leader in drug discovery and development laboratory services. As a Purchasing Analyst 1, you will play a key part in advancing Procure to Pay (P2P) purchasing processes and supporting acquisition integrations. **Main Responsibilities:** - Guide internal stakeholders on policy and practices for using procurement systems, raising requisitions, committing Purchase Orders to suppliers, and paying supplier invoices. - Review requisitions for external vendor spend, check for accuracy, and process as appropriate. - Ensure all Purchase Orders are dispatched to suppliers on a timely basis and follow-up as required to ensure they have been received, processed, and have a delivery date. - Work with suppliers to amend delivery dates on goods and services as deemed necessary by the business. - Ensure purchase orders comply with contract terms and work to improve the efficiency of the purchase to pay process. - Ensure Purchase orders pricing is accurate, and take steps internally and with suppliers to correct price deviations in advance of invoice holds. - Proactively manage supplier performance on PO commitments, delivery, and Invoice accuracy. - Ensure suppliers follow the correct procedures for submitting invoices for payment. - Supplier pricing negotiation. - Supporting supplier performance & relationship management. - Work with Accounts Payable organizations to clear any invoices on-hold (matching exceptions) to ensure on-time supplier payments. - Be the Subject Matter Expert for our Procurement Systems (Peoplesoft, Oracle, Coupa). Troubleshoot issues to resolution. - Use system reporting and bespoke analysis in Excel and/or Power BI to drive decision making and prioritization. - Extract spend data from accounts payable or other databases and create spend reports. - Undertake RFP/RFQ work for competitively tendered business opportunities. - Perform competitive analysis on supplier bids. - Prepare and present regular and ad-hoc purchasing recommendations to purchasing management. - Undertake Purchasing system UAT support activities as assigned. - Perform other duties as assigned. **Essential Functions:** - Extract and analyze spend data from Accounts Payable and other internal databases to develop accurate and actionable spend reports. - Obtain and consolidate spend files from external vendors to establish baseline spend across key purchasing categories. - Partner with functional stakeholders to gather requirements, define purchasing process steps, and establish project timelines. - Benchmark and validate sourcing opportunities through Requests for Information (RFIs), develop and issue competitive Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and support negotiation of optimal commercial terms. - Prepare and present purchasing recommendations, insights, and sourcing outcomes to purchasing management. - Under guidance, collect and analyze IQVIA data from issue logs to support vendor performance reporting, and coordinate monthly and quarterly vendor management meetings. - Ensure purchase orders align with contract terms and contribute to continuous improvement of the procure to pay (P2P) process. - Perform additional duties and support special projects as assigned. **Qualifications:** - Bachelor’s degree required; field of study in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related discipline preferred. - Minimum 3 years of professional experience, including at least 1 year in purchasing, procurement, supply chain management, materials management, or a related function involving RFP processes; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. - Strong knowledge of purchasing methodologies, principles, processes, and best practices. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel for data analysis and reporting. - Solid technical accounting understanding and ability to interpret financial data. - Strong analytical and numeracy skills, with the ability to extract insights from complex datasets. - Ability to identify financial or process issues and support the development of mitigating actions. - Demonstrated ability to prioritize, organize, and manage multiple workstreams to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. - Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, managers, vendors, and cross-functional partners. - Experience with procurement systems (e.g., PeopleSoft, Coupa) is highly desirable. - Familiarity with LEAN, automation, or process improvement initiatives is a plus. ## Skills ### Required - Microsoft Office - Excel - procurement systems - data analysis - reporting - supplier performance management - pricing negotiation ### Nice to have - PeopleSoft - Coupa - LEAN - automation - process improvement initiatives --- Source: [Apply at iqvia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://iqvia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IQVIA/job/Bratislava-Slovakia/Purchasing-Analyst-1_R1542317?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)