Aptonet Inc
Category Analyst
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This role is for a Category Analyst with a contract length of "unknown", offering a pay rate of "unknown". Requires 3-5 years in procurement analytics, strong data analysis skills, and proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, Python, and SQL. Rail industry experience preferred.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
May 28, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Atlanta, GA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Python #BI (Business Intelligence) #Databases #Documentation #Alteryx #Monitoring #Tableau #Computer Science #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Data Analysis #Visualization #Project Management #Microsoft Power BI #Strategy #QlikView
Role description
Category Analyst — Role Summary
The Category Analyst supports Category Management by turning spend, supplier, market, and sourcing data into actionable insights used to build category strategies and monitor supplier performance.
This is a highly analytical procurement/supply chain role. The ideal candidate should have a finance, engineering, economics, computer science, or technical/business background with strong data analysis skills.
Key Responsibilities
The person will be responsible for:
• Gathering and analyzing category spend data
• Performing spend analysis, including off-contract or non-compliant spend
• Building baselines from category data
• Conducting supply market analysis, including suppliers, benchmarks, indices, cost drivers, and market trends
• Creating sourcing evaluation models and negotiation models
• Building total cost of ownership models
• Developing supplier scorecards, KPIs, service-level metrics, and monitoring tools
• Supporting category strategy development
• Maintaining databases of potential suppliers
• Supporting current-state and future-state process documentation
Required / Strongly Preferred Background
Ideal candidate profile:
• 3–5 years of experience in category management, procurement analytics, sourcing analysis, supply chain analytics, or data analysis
• Engineering, finance, economics, computer science, or business-related degree
• Strong analytics and financial acumen
• Experience with tools such as:
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Python
• SQL
• QlikView
• Alteryx
• Experience extracting data from relational databases
• Rail industry experience is preferred, but not mandatory
• Project management or supply chain certification is desirable
Skills to Screen For
The strongest candidates should be able to explain experience with:
• Spend analysis
• Supplier performance management
• Strategic sourcing
• Market analysis
• Total cost of ownership modeling
• KPI / scorecard development
• RFI / RFP evaluation support
• Negotiation modeling
• Procurement process support
• Data visualization and reporting
Category Analyst — Role Summary
The Category Analyst supports Category Management by turning spend, supplier, market, and sourcing data into actionable insights used to build category strategies and monitor supplier performance.
This is a highly analytical procurement/supply chain role. The ideal candidate should have a finance, engineering, economics, computer science, or technical/business background with strong data analysis skills.
Key Responsibilities
The person will be responsible for:
• Gathering and analyzing category spend data
• Performing spend analysis, including off-contract or non-compliant spend
• Building baselines from category data
• Conducting supply market analysis, including suppliers, benchmarks, indices, cost drivers, and market trends
• Creating sourcing evaluation models and negotiation models
• Building total cost of ownership models
• Developing supplier scorecards, KPIs, service-level metrics, and monitoring tools
• Supporting category strategy development
• Maintaining databases of potential suppliers
• Supporting current-state and future-state process documentation
Required / Strongly Preferred Background
Ideal candidate profile:
• 3–5 years of experience in category management, procurement analytics, sourcing analysis, supply chain analytics, or data analysis
• Engineering, finance, economics, computer science, or business-related degree
• Strong analytics and financial acumen
• Experience with tools such as:
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Python
• SQL
• QlikView
• Alteryx
• Experience extracting data from relational databases
• Rail industry experience is preferred, but not mandatory
• Project management or supply chain certification is desirable
Skills to Screen For
The strongest candidates should be able to explain experience with:
• Spend analysis
• Supplier performance management
• Strategic sourcing
• Market analysis
• Total cost of ownership modeling
• KPI / scorecard development
• RFI / RFP evaluation support
• Negotiation modeling
• Procurement process support
• Data visualization and reporting
