Procurement Operations Analyst

The Basics

Procurement Operations Analyst’s drive the rapid and quality execution of key operational tasks within Procurement Operations. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure operational activities are executed rapidly and compliantly. While executing operational tasks you will look for inefficiencies and risks, escalating them to the team for resolution through projects. While participating in projects you will leverage your expertise and knowledge of the operational requirements to suggest meaningful improvements that improve the quality and compliance of operations.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week:
Addison, TX;
Durham, NC

• Drive quality assurance and control
  • Review and correct purchase requests using established processes and procedures
  • Review and correct change requests using established processes and procedures
  • Review and correct purchase orders using established processes and procedures
  • Review reports on un‑invoiced purchase orders and coordinate invoicing from suppliers
  • Review reports on open purchase orders and coordinate the closing and reopening of purchase orders
  • Conduct testing in Tanium’s procurement system using established processes, procedures, and test scripts
• Drive compliant onboarding of new vendors
  • Review and correct vendor onboarding requests using established processes and procedures
  • Provide support to vendors to facilitate the onboarding, ensuring timely and accurate completion of vendor profiles
• Execute operational activities
  • Review assigned tickets and resolve through coordinating with ticket requestor using established processes, procedures, and step guides
  • Provide support to project management team as needed
  • Operate various compliance program tasks including data entry, analysis, and reporting
  • Execute routine daily operational tasks in a variety of administrative functions at the direction of manager
• Win as a Team
  • Provide burst capacity related to team operational activities
  • Provide support in designing, building, and testing enhancements to Tanium’s procurement system

• BA/BS in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Finance, or other related fields required or equivalent demonstrated experience
• Proficiency in English
• 1+ years’ experience in procurement sourcing, purchasing, operations or similar
• General supplier contract review competency
• Experience and understanding of basic accounting principles
• Experience and understanding of basic procurement contract clauses and contract life cycles
• Experience and understanding of basic data analysis
• Strong ability to work on a team and communicate clearly
• Experience training peers on processes and systems at various levels of an organization
• Proficiency in O365 or Google Suite
• Proficiency in Microsoft Projects
• Proficiency in ZipHQ or other procure to pay tools
• Experience working with functional leaders and executive stakeholders
• Knowledge and application of Lean / Six Sigma principals to projects and processes a plus and “black belt certification”
• Ability to solve tough problems, quickly

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security‑conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top U.S. retailers, top U.S. commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military.

It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit  and follow us on Linked In and X.

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