Project Analyst (HYBRID)

Project Analyst (HYBRID)

 

About the job

Our people have different ways of working and lifestyles. We’re committed to a mix of working in the office, in the field and from home. You have some flexibility in terms of where and how work gets done to help you balance your personal life and career goals.

About The Workplace Safety And Insurance Board (WSIB)

We’re here to help. When an injury or illness happens on the job, we move quickly to provide wage-loss benefits, medical coverage and support to help people get back to work. Funded by businesses, we also provide no-fault collective liability insurance and access to industry-specific health and safety information. We are one of the largest insurance organizations in North America covering over five million people in more than 300,000 workplaces across Ontario. For more information, visit wsib.ca .

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: N04 From: $62,187.00

Temporary opportunity up to 12 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
• Accessing and compiling collected data into appropriate format for data analysis, evaluation, reporting and projection modeling, using various tools and applications/programs in order to conduct business and statistical analysis
   

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 technique to be used; use inferential statistical methods or other types of analysis on the data collected and to define client requirements for report generation
   

Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned or required.

Job Requirements
 

• BA in Business, Computer Science or Mathematics; Certification in Procurement and/or Business Analysis is preferred.
• 4 years experience in business analytics, computer systems, problem solving, etc.
• Background in various programming languages and working with Microsoft Office, Cognos, PeopleSoft and other reporting tools; certification in various programming languages (example: SQL, VBA, Python, PHP, Java, Javascript) preferred.
   

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We respect and value the diversity of our people. We strive to create an environment where employees can be themselves and where our differences are celebrated.

The WSIB is committed to being accessible and inclusive, and following barrier-free and accessible employment practices in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Should you require accommodation through any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know when we contact you and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclosing conflicts of interest

As public servants, employees at the WSIB have a responsibility to act in an ethical way at all times to create a respectful workplace and maintain public trust. Job applicants are required to disclose any circumstance that could result in a real, potential or perceived conflict of interest. A conflict of interest is any situation where your private interests may impair or be perceived to impair the decisions you make in your official capacity. This may include: political activity, directorship, other outside employment and certain personal relationships (e.g. with current WSIB employees, customers and/or stakeholders). If you have any questions about conflict of interest obligations and/or how to make a disclosure, please contact the Talent Acquisition Centre at talentacquisitioncentre@wsib.on.ca .

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As a precondition of employment, the WSIB requires that prospective candidates undergo a criminal records name check any time before or after they are hired.


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