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Procurement Analytics, Data Infrastructure and Data Products Manager
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Source: Delta Air Lines careers · View original posting
Employer job description
From Delta Air Lines's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)
The Procurement Analytics, Data Infrastructure & Data Products Manager will design, build, and evolve analytics platforms, data products, and master data foundations that support the Procurement and Supply Chain organization. This role partners closely with Strategic Sourcing, Finance, Operations, and IT to enable fact-based decisions through scalable data models, spend cubes, dashboards, and curated analytics products across Direct and Indirect spend.
This role is designed for a hands-on builder with a strong product mindset, combining data architecture, BI engineering, and financial acumen to translate complex procurement data into actionable insights that drive sourcing strategies, supplier performance, and enterprise cost optimization.
Key Responsibilities
- Procurement Data Infrastructure & Architecture
- Design, build, and maintain end-to-end data infrastructure including ingestion, transformation, modeling, and semantic layers.
- Develop analytical cubes covering supplier, category, contract, volume, rate, and spend hierarchies.
- Integrate contracts, purchase orders, invoices, finance actuals, and operational data into a single source of truth.
- Establish governance and quality standards for supplier master, category hierarchies, and contract/rate data.
- Spend, Financial & Should-Cost Analytics
- Partner with Finance to align analytics to budgets, forecasts, P&L impacts, and savings baselines.
- Deliver volume, rate, mix, price variance, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analytics.
- Connect negotiated rates and should-cost assumptions to actual spend to identify leakage and compliance gaps.
- Reporting, Dashboards & Self-Service Enablement
- Build scalable dashboards and reporting solutions (Power BI / Tableau) delivering executive-ready insights.
- Develop intuitive, self-service analytics products embedded into regular business rhythms.
- Translate complex datasets into clear, decision-oriented narratives for leadership.
- Offshore Analytics & Data Engineering Partnership (Dotted-Line)
- Provide functional (dotted-line) leadership to offshore analytics and data engineering teams supporting Procurement analytics.
- Translate business requirements into clear technical direction, reviewing deliverables to ensure quality, scalability, and alignment to standards.
- Leverage offshore capacity to accelerate delivery while retaining hands-on ownership of solution design and analytics outcomes.
- Define and govern the ETL / ELT architecture and data pipeline requirements, including source integration, transformations, orchestration, and data quality controls, while providing functional (dotted‑line) direction to offshore teams responsible for building and maintaining the pipelines.
- Product Ownership & Enablement
- Act as analytics product owner by defining use cases, maintaining delivery roadmaps, and prioritizing enhancements based on business value.
- Enable adoption through structured trainings, equipping category teams to self‑serve analytics by delivering hands‑on training, practical playbooks, and by embedding data products into core operating rhythms.
- Future-Ready Data Foundation
- Design AI-ready data structures and semantic layers enabling future ML, AI, and LLM-based procurement use cases.
- Partner with IT and engineering teams on scalable, enterprise-grade cloud data architecture.
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
- Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
- New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)
- In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year
- Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
- Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
- Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)
5+ years in analytics, BI, or data engineering roles supporting Procurement, Supply Chain, or Finance.
Advanced SQL and data modeling skills, including experience with cloud-based analytics data platforms (preferred: Microsoft Fabric or AWS).
Strong understanding of procurement financials including Direct and Indirect spend.
Experience building BI dashboards and semantic models (Power BI / Tableau).
Strong stakeholder communication skills and product mindset.
Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, MIS, Analytics, or related field.
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