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Procurement Analyst
Athenahealth
IT, Operations
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Posted on Oct 23, 2024
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Athena is looking for unique procurement experts to join our growing Global Strategic Procurement Team. We move fast with a laser focus on customer and stakeholder success. That means we need people who focus on more than just cost. We need adaptable doers who are great at engaging with stakeholders, skilled spend analyzers, strategic sourcing and negotiation experts and solid project managers, flexible and fast multi-taskers, and people who possess a true total cost of ownership philosophy. We need the next generation of procurement talent!
The Procurement Analyst will be responsible for analyzing metadata, reading contract language, and assisting the sourcing team in documenting contracts. They should have a thorough understanding of the contract process and the ability to extract critical data from contracts. The Procurement Analyst will drive contracting activities to ensure the successful selection and implementation of vendor services and solutions by ensuring timely execution of contracts that align with the organization's risk profile through thoughtful project management.
The ideal candidate will possess:
3-4 years of experience in contract review, project management, or a related field, or a degree in a relevant area of study. Knowledge across various sourcing categories and/or the ability to quickly learn and retain information about the sourcing and contracting process and categories. A vision for optimization, strong project management and analytical skills, and excellent interpersonal skills to act as a change agent.
Essential Functions (Duties and Responsibilities):
Contracting (80%)
- Understand and conduct all business in accordance with the appropriate athenahealth, Inc. policies including all Procurement Policies & Procedures
- Review, and analyze contracts (non-disclosure, licensing, distribution, reseller, and purchasing agreements).
- Perform project management of contracting process through analysis and contract execution.
- Coordinate business, procurement and legal objectives for the business requirement, costs, quality, risk, etc.
- Prepare and maintain project plans, appropriate milestone, and related schedules.
- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with business partners.
- Maintain and monitor post-award business processes through buying process. Interface with stakeholders to understand, document, track, and fulfill business needs.
- Collaborate in the development, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of contract management policy, process, and standards to optimize processing and time to contract completion.
- Work with Key Stakeholders to determine appropriate metrics; create reporting and metric guidelines to manage risk.
- Assist with contract review efforts and load contracts into contract management system.
- Build and maintain relationships with the Procurement team, Legal, and internal stakeholders to collect requirements, develop contract templates, and implement standards.
General Procurement Support (20%)
- Partner with the team to develop and qualify bidder lists, develop evaluation criteria, issue formal bid documents, coordinate, analyze, recommend, award for commodity buys and one off, one-time low risk spend.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Education & Experience Required:
- Undergraduate degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Finance and/or Business preferred but not required.
- 3-4 years of contracting, business development and/or project management experience or other relevant experience is required.
- Familiarity with technology transactions, software licenses, strategic sourcing and/or general procurement.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Ability to understand the business, financial and legal aspects of contracts and other business arrangements.
- Strong analytics skills: Keen attention to detail along with ability to discover potential risks.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights and recommendations for improvement.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, negotiation, and project management skills.
- Team player, excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task and prioritize, and work in a multi-cultural setting.
- Demonstrated ability to work with limited supervision.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and demanding setting.
- Self-motivated; focused individual with excellent interpersonal skills.
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.