Program Analyst

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At the WSIB, you’ll have the opportunity to:

- explore many career paths and follow your passion
- continuously learn and grow professionally
- be recognized for the great work you do
- participate in programs that support your health and wellbeing

You’ll also receive a competitive salary and may be eligible to participate in our health and dental plan.

**Salary Grade: N06 From: $77,627.00**

**1 temporary assignment up to 24 months.**

**Job Summary**

Provide expert analytics and support on all high profile and confidential procurement activities for the WSIB. Ensuring high quality output through procurement data stewardship strong process control.

Act as a source of expert advice to internal clients across the organization on the most appropriate approach to spend and savings data collection, analysis, supplier performance metrics and strategy.

**Major Duties & Responsibilities**:
Provide technical support for high risk, confidential and outsourcing procurement activities by:

- Supplying market data, researching current consumption and projecting future spend. Participating from beginning to end in the go-to-market process including requirements gathering to ensure that the final contract is defendable, to the contract implementation
- Building evaluation and consensus documents supporting the procurement process
- Developing various specialized regular and ad hoc reports including supplier/provider report cards and distributing to appropriate internal stakeholders; providing analysis of costs, utilization and trends that contribute to increases/decreases in spending
- Anticipating and providing advice on potential risk and quality management issues, and make recommendations to management as appropriate.

Research, advise on, and support contracts and procurement supported categories by:

- Identifying, tracking and reporting on trends that may prompt a policy review or an amendment to internal and external payment processes
- Documenting any new categories and assisting in transferring these to the Category Analysts
- Determining scope of claim file reviews to identify pre-sourcing spend details; verifying that supplier/provider payments reflect negotiated pricing; initiating recovery of over-spend
- In collaboration with Category Specialists/Managers, creating supplier reports to capture supplier performance metrics; creating scorecards, inputting supplier data, and analyzing and reporting on supplier performance
- Producing various specialized regular and ad hoc reports including supplier report cards required by Category Manager/Specialists for reporting and presentations. Recommending report design and work with Category team and internal clients on appropriate design and parameters, ensuring that monthly updates are consistently processed.

Design, develop and enhance support systems for sourcing/procurement activities including category spend analysis, financial modelling for bid analysis, lease vs. buy modeling, total cost of ownership modeling, cost benefit analysis, process analysis. This includes:

- Investigating and developing information technology tools to capture the data, creating new databases, writing computer programs to extract and manipulate data from existing databases or data warehouses

Provide technical advice and guidance to procurement services management and staff, and other internal clients on the processes of data collection, analyses, warehousing, data management of spend data for assigned categories by:

- Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders including but not limited to Procurement Services, Health Services, Business Technology Services, and Specialized Claims Services
- Reviewing work of Category Analysts to ensure proper methodology and rigor is applied to work. Creating and documenting Spend and Savings calculation methodology to the source of practice for the analytics group
- Ensuring data and analysis are methodologically sound and meet commonly accepted standards in the statistics gathering/analysis field. This includes assessing different methodologies and determining the most appropriate analytical or statistical method or