Prime Vendor Analyst - SAL0103F9

at Medline Industries, Inc. in CHICAGO, Illinois, United States

Job Description

This position is remote.

Join our dynamic Sales Operations department where collaborative teams in Pricing, Customer Data Management, Sales Compensation, and more intersect to empower our sales teams. Our mission is to grow and retain customers through consistency and overall experience to optimize Medline sales and customer experience enabling long-term partnership. Dive into an organization dedicated to precise product pricing, comprehensive market insights, seamless customer onboarding, and all the critical support our Salesforce needs for continuous growth.

Medline Industries, LP is the leading nationwide supplier of medical, surgical and pharmaceutical products to hospitals, nursing homes, HME providers, surgery centers, physicians offices, and home care/hospice setting. We are looking for a Prime Vendor Analyst to join our team.

The Prime Vendor Analyst is responsible for analyzing and presenting business related trends and results to identify opportunities for improvement/solutions in support of the customer and sales organization.You will work with internal and external customers to drive results tied to defined distribution metrics and reporting requirements as well as meet with sales and the customer to identify, prioritize, track and manage projects and KPI performance.

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain, and develop relationships with the customer, sales teams, and vendor community. Lead/participate in various meetings on behalf of customer (ex. value analysis committee).
• Meet with vendors to discuss products, pricing and terms. Present findings to key contacts in the customer's procurement team.
• Measure the trends, efficiencies and effectiveness of the overall pricing and inventory KPIs.
• Support sales team by managing contract terms, assisting with brand conversions, and tracking all savings and projects. Make presentations regarding project updates, business results, committee findings, etc.
• Review pricing to determine and identify discrepancies. Ensure new pricing rules are reviewed and approved by respective sales teams.
• Provide issue resolution in the following areas (not limited to): inventory surplus, backorders, outstanding invoices. Initiate and partner with the internal teams. Communicate resolution in a timely manner.
• Host weekly meetings with supply chain, materials services, and Medline Sales teams.
• Collaborate with Sales, IS and Finance to develop, create and maintain reporting requirements and ensure systems provide accurate and timely data.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years of experience in sales analysis and support OR High School Diploma and at least 5 years of experience in sales analysis and support
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within, and external to, an organization.
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors.
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap).
• Willingness to travel for business related needs (i.e. training, accounts meetings, development, etc).

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