Procurement Analyst

Start Date: 01.09.2026
End Date: 30.11.2026
Workload: 100% with 41h/week
Location: Basel
Workmodel: Contracting

Your responsibilies

Payment Terms Reconciliation & Data Quality

• Compare supplier payment terms maintained in SAP (Company Code and Purchasing Organization levels) against executed contractual payment terms.
• Identify and analyze discrepancies between vendor master data and contractual agreements.
• Support the correction of payment terms data in SAP to ensure alignment with contractual commitments.
• Maintain reconciliation documentation and ensure high standards of data quality and accuracy.
•  Monitor recurring data quality issues and recommend process improvements to prevent future discrepancies.

Payment Terms Optimization

• Analyze the supplier portfolio to identify vendors with payment terms that are not aligned with corporate policy or working capital objectives.
• Identify addressable suppliers with unfavorable payment terms and build a prioritized pipeline of renegotiation opportunities.
• Support Procurement Category Managers by providing data-driven insights and supplier opportunity assessments.
• Track renegotiation progress and measure business impact, including compliance improvements and working capital benefits.

Reporting & Analytics

• Develop reports and KPIs to monitor:
  • Payment terms alignment between SAP and contracts
  • Data quality and reconciliation progress
  • Policy compliance
  • Renegotiation pipeline
  • Realized improvements and business impact
• Present findings and recommendations to Procurement stakeholders.
  
  

Process Improvement & Governance

• Support initiatives to strengthen payment terms governance across the organization.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of training materials, standard operating procedures, and user guidance.
• Promote awareness of payment terms standards and best practices among Procurement stakeholders.
• Recommend opportunities to simplify and standardize payment terms management processes.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner with Procurement, Procurement Excellence, Global Master Data, and Accounts Payable teams to validate and resolve payment terms discrepancies.
• Coordinate with Category Managers to support supplier engagement and payment terms negotiations.
• Escalate complex issues requiring business or contractual review.

Your Profil:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
• +5 years of experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, Master Data, or Accounts Payable.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, Power Query preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related 
  discipline.
• Comfortable working in both structured project environments and evolving implementations
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work with large datasets.
• Experience working with SAP (MM and/or FI modules preferred).
• Familiarity with Source-to-Contract platforms (Jaggaer, Coupa, Ariba).
• Project Management experience.
• Strong analytical and data reconciliation skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.