Company Description
At Konecranes, we believe that great customer experience is built on the people behind the Konecranes name. Everything we do, we do with passion and drive. We believe diversity drives business success and is the foundation for our growth. We welcome different backgrounds and skills that enrich our community and we promote a place where we can ALL be ourselves. This is what makes Konecranes a unique place to work.
Job Description
General Job description:
Goal setting, management of Procurement analysis/analytics activities, and ensuring the centre achieves its results and objectives in a timely manner. Day to day tasks within the objectives and KPIS with direct and considerable impact through own work to the Global Procurement Function. Proactive problem solving with can do attitude by existing/continuous improvement of global processes /working methods to make it lean and more efficient. Influence communication with global stakeholders with facts and data to get better alignment
Key Role
- Design and develop business insights related to Key strategic KPIs like on time delivery, on time confirmation, payment terms, lead time, reclamations and escalations
- Convert data into meaningful key insights for business decisions
- Utilize analytical, statistical and programming skills to collect, analyse and interpret large scale data sets
- Provide data driven solutions to business challenges
- Use predictive modelling to increase and optimize Procurement organization spend
- Deliver on periodical reports on time and accurately to make business impact with high complexity
- Development and productizing the analysis in relation to global operations of Procurement for standard offering
- Ensure accuracy and structure in procurement data
- Creating dashboards with Power BI or other similar tools
- Ensure master data integrity in key systems / maintaining the processes to support data quality
- Conduct market research to support future business planning
- Coach team in interpreting data and enhance team’s competency on statistical tools
- Use predictive modelling to increase and optimize Procurement organization spend
- Development and productizing the analysis in relation to global operations of Procurement for standard offering
- Ensure accuracy and structure in procurement data
- Provide data driven solutions to business challenges
Key Behavioral Skills
Key Behaviours
Behavioural Description
Lead our Future
Embrace sustainable change to deliver desired change outcomes. Identifies and takes ownership of opportunities presented through ambiguous situations, generating creative ideas/solutions. Challenges the status quo to simplify, rationalise or develop business processes or services to meet the needs of our internal/external customers.
Empower our People
Two-way - Communicates openly and confidently. Motivates and influences others in a way that results in acceptance and agreement.
Add Value for our Customers
Make it easy for our customer/community by proactively anticipating internal and external needs - collaborating to build valued and trusted relationships through the delivery of high-quality service. Recognises the importance of teamwork to achieve outcomes; brings in ideas, information, suggestions, and expertise from others outside the immediate team.
Deliver on the Promise
Acts with integrity & Achievement focussed. Shows energy and resilience. Takes personal accountability for achieving individual and shared outcomes. Sets robust plans well in advance and initiates action to move work forward.
Achievement focused. Takes personal accountability for achieving individual and shared outcomes. Sets robust plans well in advance and initiates action to move work forward. Adjusts actions to respond and capitalise on changing circumstances. Manages time effectively, monitoring performance against deadlines and milestones. . Shows energy and resilience. Is authentic, approachable open and honest.
Role and Responsibility:
- Manage a group of specialists and responsible for their performance management
- Responsible for delivering the monthly reports, metrics & process documentation related to Procurement
- Respond positively to proposed data initiatives, arising from the Information Governance Group, and provide the necessary support and expertise to deliver such initiatives.
- Implement specific customer requirements, such as internal reporting or customized transportation metrics.
- Develop the simulation models to get the optimal prices for supplier managers/category managers
- Analyse and present complex data into meaningful decision-making information
- Develop analytics dashboard & support with actionable insights
- Analyse & highlight the Categories with tail spend
- Participate in global projects with global team and deliver results
- Ensure to support the process owners in the ad-hoc requests.
- Oversee the definition and delivery of data governance approaches, principles and processes
- Oversee the approach and application of data quality principles, methods and processes to improve the quality of data
- Apply industry knowledge to interpret data and improve performance
- Awareness of ISO 14001 and 45001 standards
Qualifications
Education Required: Graduation/Post Graduation/PGDBM
Professional Experience Required (Min – Max.): 12~16 years
- Minimum 6 years’ experience – preferably in the given industry segments - Manufacturing, OEM, Retail – CPG, Services, Telecom, IT etc.
- 5 years of demonstrated work experience in Procurement/Supply Chain analytics. Expert in tools like R and Python
- Min 5 years of demonstrated work experience in people management having direct supervision of people
Technical Competence:
- Proficient in statistics, machine learning, coding languages, databases and reporting technologies
- QlikView / Power Bi or similar reporting system knowledge
- Strong project management experience & exposure to data management tools
- Excellent numerical accuracy and agility
- Profound Knowledge of SAP environments and extraction of data
- Ability to prepare and deliver training materials
- Good Knowledge in Procurement and supply chain
- Implementation and communication of new dashboards, planning actions related to findings
- Project management skills
- R and Python
Additional Information
What we can offer you.
- Work in a global environment
- Competitive Salary
- Work-Life balance
- Innovative and dynamic working environment
- Support of an excellent Global Team
- Possibility to work in leading crane building company with leading technology
Why join us?
We are a global company with history dating back to 1910 - with future looking attitude that has brought us here today. Now together, we are shaping the next generation of material handling for smarter and safer world.
We believe in creating a workplace that is built on trust, flexibility, friendliness and inclusivity towards each other and culture with open communication and low hierarchy. We are a strong expert organisation where you are able to use modern tools and technologies - while embracing agile methodologies and continuous learning and development.
Want to learn more about Konecranes IT and what your future colleagues have to say? Visit our IT career pages on www.konecranes.com/careers/explore-our-roles/it-careers
Interested?
If this role sparked your interest, please submit your application by 15-Nov-2025 at latest, on our career site. We will contact you after the application period at latest.
Have questions? Please feel free to write.
Email: harshita.agrahari@konecranes.com
Konecranes moves what matters. We are a global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries. We consistently set the industry benchmark, from everyday improvements to the breakthroughs at moments that matter most, because we know we can always find a safer, more productive and sustainable way. That's why, with 16 000+ professionals in over 50 countries, we are trusted every day to lift, handle and move what the world needs.
Konecranes is committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are treated fairly in an environment which is free from any form of discrimination.
