Director - Contract and Spend Analytics

Role Summary 

We are hiring a Director - Contract & Spend Analytics with approximately 12 years of experience in contract analytics, spend analytics, commercial analysis, procurement advisory, and value-led transformation. The role is suited for a Big 4 consulting professional who can translate contract and spend data into measurable business outcomes, including cost optimization, leakage reduction, revenue enhancement, risk mitigation, and improved commercial governance. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead contract and spend analytics engagements across procurement, sourcing, supplier management, commercial operations, and revenue assurance. 

• Use structured analytics to identify savings opportunities, maverick spend, contract leakage, pricing non-compliance, supplier consolidation potential, working capital improvements, and revenue uplift opportunities. 

• Own end-to-end delivery including data discovery, spend classification, contract abstraction, baseline development, opportunity sizing, business case preparation, implementation planning, and value tracking. 

• Advise senior client stakeholders on commercial governance, contract performance management, procurement analytics, revenue leakage controls, and digital enablement roadmaps. 

• Support business development through proposals, diagnostics, solution design, client workshops, pursuit support, and account growth initiatives. 

• Collaborate with consulting, procurement, legal, finance, technology, tax, risk, and client business teams to deliver integrated outcomes. 

• Lead, mentor, and develop cross-functional teams while building reusable analytics assets, accelerators, methodologies, and delivery playbooks. 

Candidate Profile 

• Approximately 12 years of relevant experience in contract analytics, spend analytics, procurement analytics, commercial transformation, strategic sourcing, and agentic AI transformation of Source to Contract function. 

• Prior experience in a Big 4, leading consulting firm, global capability center, or large enterprise transformation environment is strongly preferred. 

• Qualified professional with a bachelor’s degree in commerce, business, economics, finance, statistics, supply chain, or a related discipline; MBA, CA, or procurement certifications will be an advantage. 

• Proven experience delivering measurable cost optimization, spend rationalization, supplier consolidation, contract compliance, revenue enhancement, margin improvement, and leakage reduction outcomes. 

• Strong ability to convert fragmented contract, spend, supplier, finance, and operational data into executive-ready insights, opportunity pipelines, and implementation roadmaps. 

• Demonstrated leadership in project delivery, stakeholder management, team development, collaboration across functions, and capability building. 

• Experience in shaping solutions, growing accounts, supporting GTM campaigns, and contributing to business development KPIs is preferred. 

Preferred Background 

• Experience across sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, infrastructure, airlines, logistics, IT/ITES, professional services, consumer markets, healthcare, or technology. 

• Exposure to ERP, procurement, CLM, spend intelligence, contract analytics, visualization, workflow, or AI-enabled analytics platforms. 

• Track record of delivering measurable outcomes such as cost reduction, revenue uplift, margin improvement, risk reduction, working capital benefit, compliance improvement, and operational efficiency. 

What Success Looks Like 

• Build a differentiated contract and spend analytics capability aligned to Big 4 consulting standards. 

• Deliver quantified cost optimization, revenue enhancement, leakage reduction, and compliance improvement outcomes for clients. 

• Strengthen client relationships, collaborate effectively across internal and client teams, and support sustained account growth. 

• Contribute to business development KPIs through pursuits, proposals, credentials, diagnostics, reusable assets, and market-facing solutions. 

Why Join / Role Impact 

This is a Director-level role for a commercially sharp analytics professional who can combine consulting discipline, contract and spend analytics expertise, value creation mindset, client relationship management, and practice building. The selected candidate will help clients unlock savings, improve revenue realization, reduce contractual leakage, and build scalable analytics-led commercial capabilities. 

Reporting & Collaboration 

• Collaborate with client leadership, procurement, finance, legal, commercial, technology, risk, alliance partners, and internal delivery teams. 

• Work closely with consulting, analytics, transformation, procurement, legal, and digital teams to drive integrated client outcomes. 

• Support leadership in strategic growth initiatives, business development priorities, proposal conversion, account mining, and practice development.