Associate Director, Procurement Market Intelligence

Job Description
The Market Intelligence Lead plays a key role in developing and optimizing a comprehensive procurement market intelligence strategy, including enhancing data sources and connections across the enterprise. This role is responsible for identifying and addressing current and future needs for intelligence capabilities, innovating processes to maximize the value derived from market intelligence tools. The position collaborates with cross-functional teams, drives deployment initiatives, and employs a specialized capabilities to maintain high-performance within the Market Intelligence sleeve.
- Lead, develop and implement a comprehensive procurement market intelligence and insight strategy, optimizing data sources, intelligence library, and data connections across the enterprise.
- Identify current and future needs for market intelligence and insight gathering capabilities, ensuring procurement functional partners are equipped with the necessary tools and platforms for data-driven decision making.
- Innovate processes and methodologies to create value through market intelligence tools and ensure the continued improvement and efficiency of access to industry insights including optimizing the balance between externally and internally sourced industry information.
- Provide Procurement Analytics and Market Intelligence lead and functional partners with ad hoc insights and analytical deliverables that can be shared with Procurement senior leadership to inform strategy.
- Collaborate with Data Science and Analytics &
Reporting teams to ensure insights are holistic and representative of broader Procurement function.
- Drive the deployment of market intelligence capabilities, overseeing projects and advocating for the adoption and utilization of digital tools and platforms to guide decision-making.
- Direct the governance of market intelligence processes, establishing maintenance routines, quality standards, and reporting mechanisms to ensure ongoing data accuracy and relevance.
- Maintain the necessary infrastructure for advanced market intelligence analytics, including data sources, libraries, and connections to digital tools such as dashboards.
- Regularly assess adoption and current needs of functional stakeholders for market intelligence capabilities, guiding the innovation of the product portfolio.
- Develop, maintain and expand relationships and network across peers, research partners and liaisons to ensure robust channels of industry insights and information.
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