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Lead a team of analysts handling spend analysis, market intelligence, supplier risk and claims procurement.Manage client relationship and transform business problems into actionable initiatives.Project manage various programs/initiatives as part of sourcing strategy.Strategize, plan and prepare various Spend Analytics Reports by extracting relevant data from various data sources / ERP systems such as Oracle, Ariba, DB2 etc and drive actionable business insights for the sourcing organization.Manage ad-hoc data analysis queries and provide recommendations to the business.Analyze leakage by category and supplier, prepare reports, and perform savings analysis.Design, develop and implement ways of working on KPI’s.Support the sourcing team to build Commercial Models (including RFP Analysis, Payments modeling and consumption tracking, utilization etc.).

Leading a team of Spend Analysts. Driving the strategy to expand services across geographies.Managing the development and maintenance of internal reporting infrastructure and supporting the team on various new projects/initiatives.

Responsibilities: Manage all internal reporting needs for Business Strategies and Solutions (BS&S) including creation, development and maintenance of internal reporting infrastructure.Conduct engagement analysis of GCC Customers to identify progress and find opportunities to enhance engagement.Develop customer level action plan to improve engagement and demonstrate the value delivered by BS&S to the GCC EMEA business.Benchmark customer engagement with industry and volume peers.Manage new migrations happening from EMEA with the aim of cost arbitrage (including migration strategy and FTE planning).Act as Project Manager for all process improvement projects happening in the department. Responsibilities include planning & scheduling, budgeting and resource planning.

Responsibilities: Provide regular and ad-hoc Management Information support and analysis relating to Global Corporate Card (GCC) to American Express Corporate Card customers in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. Manage Spend Analytics process through segmentation and profiling which is a key process for on boarding new customers to the Corporate Card and Corporate Purchasing Card program.Manage Key Performance Indicators (KPI) process involving incentive forecast for Account Development Managers (ADM's) and Sales Managers in the EMEA region.Assist UK based consulting team with regular tracking and identification of savings made through Air and Hotel expenditures made on American Express corporate card products.Drive process improvement and profitability through managing several process improvement projects.Projects: Creation of e-mail template for communication of analysts with Account Development Managers (ADM's)Creation of an Aging Solution for Corporate CustomersCreation of ATP (Average Ticket Price) Tool for a customerRecovery of scorecard project (QC-ART) through constant monitoring and support to the scorecard creation teamCreation and Maintenance of ADM Hierarchy databaseDelivery of Portfolio Email Package (PEP) to 400+ customers

Responsibilities: Analyze Cardmember accounts to locate billing/payment discrepancy, reconcile the same and communicate it to the Cardmember through a communication (letter).Projects: Member of the PW (Previously Worked) cases analysis team - Initiative at process level to reduce the number of cases in the Reconciliation inventory which were marked as PWWorked with the Six Sigma team in the Process Mapping initiative - Initiative at a center level to reduce defects in the Reconciliation process