Supply Chain Analyst

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Supply Management, Level B

Job Title

Supply Chain Analyst

Department

Strategic Procurement | Supply Management | Financial Operations | VP Finance and Operations

Compensation Range

$6,747.50 - $9,701.42 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

September 15, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

Ongoing

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

JOB SUMMARY

The Supply Chain Analyst is responsible for analyzing, measuring and monitoring the benefits and performance of the University’s major contracts, sourcing programs and spend categories. The Supply Chain Analyst works independently and proactively under the general direction of the Associate Director, Strategic Procurement, and provides advisory, analytical, and reporting services to support decision making by senior management in Financial Operations and University departments, faculties and administrative units. The Supply Chain Analyst performs analysis of spend and savings information to create strategic plans for further cost savings and benefits to the University, including recommendations to assist effective contract compliance, decision-making, improvements to the end to end purchasing process, and use of UBC’s ERP system. The Supply Chain Analyst drives a customer-focused culture in alignment with the University's core values, principles, and sustainability goals and supports strategy development, operational management, benefits realization, continuous improvement, supplier relationship management, and day to day expertise and guidance for staff engaged in supply chain activities.

ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS

Reporting to the Associate Director, Strategic Procurement, the Supply Chain Analyst provides supply chain management support for Financial Operations. Works closely and liaises with all levels of Financial Operations staff and establishes and maintains close working relationship with administration, management, faculty and staff of all levels of the university community outside of Financial Operations as well as with the supplier community.

WORK PERFORMED

1. Data/Information Management-
- Determines available data sources, and most effective and efficient way to access information.- Consolidates a high volume of information from multiple sources ensuring highest levels of data accuracy, relevance and richness standards are upheld; ensures that all relevant information is incorporated and integrated.- Proactively obtains market research data on key spend categories to anticipate market opportunities and barriers.- Develops data management practices that are transparent, standardized, and repeatable to facilitate ease of data availability.- Maintains documents detailing process and methodology for data/information management.

2. Complex Analysis and Modelling- Analyzes detailed spend and transactional pricing data for the University's spend on goods and services.- Prepares meaningful analysis (e.g. purchasing trends, purchasing channels/catalogue usage, price/product comparisons, identified baseline/benchmark vs. potential options, impact assessments, cost-benefit analysis, forecasted costs/savings, documented assumptions/caveats).- Supports development of business cases including scope, benefits, disadvantages, risk assessment and management, resource requirements, implementation costs, operational costs, savings and cost avoidance.- Develops complex models that forecast projected benefits/savings for various sourcing options.- Develops complex models that track realized benefits/savings for implemented sourcing strategies.- Supports negotiations with suppliers by providing “what if” modelling scenarios for pricing structures.- Supports contract development by providing Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measurement expertise.- Provides analysis of market data and information that could have significant impact on the ability to support the objectives of UBC; uses advanced quantitative, qualitative and analytical methods.- Develops and implements reportable metrics to meet or exceed defined targets.- Monitors trends, supply markets, commodity indices, and future category pric