Freelance Geopolitical Risk Analyst Jobs in Delaware

The Sr Procurement and Market Intelligence Lead role will serve as the enterprise's principal expert delivering deep market insights on supplymarket economics, cost modeling, risk forecasting, and strategic insights. This role directly influences major commercial decisions, Category Strategies, sourcing events, and Supplier Governance Board recommendations. This role partners directly with Procurement Operations, Finance, Engineering, and Executive Leadership to shape sourcing strategies, influence major commercial decisions, and anticipate market shifts before they impact the business.

You will own the insight engine behind Strategic Procurement, developing predictive price models, shouldcost frameworks, market outlooks, supplier risk evaluations, executive dashboards, and analytics that guide multimilliondollar negotiations. As a senior thought leader, you will provide highjudgment recommendations to Category Management and senior leadership, ensuring the company stays ahead of market volatility and supplychain risks.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead enterprise market scanning of commodities, labor, logistics, capacity, inflation, economic indicators, and geopolitical risk.

• Develop authoritative Category Outlooks and realtime market briefs to guide sourcing waves, negotiation timing, and strategy refinement.

• Advise Category Managers and executives on highimpact market scenarios and commercial implications.

• Build predictive pricing models, inflation trajectories, regressionbased forecasts, and riskadjusted simulations.

• Develop shouldcost models for materials, services, and capex scopes; quantify cost drivers such as labor, overhead, equipment, logistics, raw materials, and supplier margin.

• Create scenario models to support negotiation strategies and valuelever prioritization.

• Manage enterprise spend analytics, including spend cube ownership, classification integrity, and KPI reporting.

• Develop and maintain executivelevel Power BI/Tableau dashboards covering spend, inflation impacts, contract performance, supplier risk signals, market exposure, and category KPIs.

• Partner with Finance to validate baselines, quantify savings/benefits, and improve accuracy of Procurement performance reporting.

• Support major sourcing events with RFx content development, evaluation criteria, financial models, and benchmarking.

• Provide factbased negotiation support including price curves, market benchmarks, costdriver analysis, and nonlowestbid justification evidence.

• Ensure sourcing events (RFx or panel minibids) incorporate market intelligence, risk signals, and shouldcost insights.

• Build and maintain supplier risk dashboards covering financial health, HSE data, geographic exposure, performance trends, and concentration risk.

• Develop earlywarning indicators to identify supply disruption risk and recommend mitigation strategies.

• Support Supplier Governance Board reviews with risk summaries and strategic recommendations.

• Drive continuous improvement of analytics, dashboards, RFx templates, and data architecture.

• Collaborate with procurement systems (S2P/eSourcing/CLM) to enhance data quality, visibility, and reporting.

• Standardize intelligence processes, automate reporting workflows, and develop repeatable models that scale across categories.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Supply Chain, Finance, IT or a related field or equivalent Procurement Contracting/Purchasing experience.

• 7+ years in Procurement Market Intelligence, Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, or SupplyMarket Economics.

• Deep experience in shouldcost modeling, price modeling, predictive analytics, and market forecasting.

• Proficiency with Power BI/Tableau, advanced Excel; SQL/Python a strong advantage.

• Experience working with procurement systems (S2P, eSourcing, CLM) and leveraging system data for insights.

• Strong financial acumen, understanding of commercial models, cost structures, and TCO methodology.

• Ability to advise senior executives with clarity, credibility, and strategic judgment.

• Exceptional communication and datastorytelling skills.

• Demonstrated expertise in advanced analytics, financial modeling, and data interpretation.

• Experience supporting sourcing or category management initiatives through data-driven insights.

• Strong understanding of contract management principles, procurement policies, and supplier performance metrics.

• Experience working in a centrally led procurement model with enterprise-wide scope

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time to support operations across multiple facilities in the U.S.

• This position is on site 5 days a week.

• ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED.

• FOR SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SALARY REQUIREMENTS.

CA Job Posting Requirement: The salary range for this position is $101,702.39- $180,479.24.

NJ Job Posting Requirement: The salary range for this position is $101,702.39- $167,676.64.

The compensation range listed in this posting is in compliance with applicable state law. Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills and internal peer equity will be considered in determining the selected candidate's compensation. Salaries at the time of hire are typically in the lower to middle portion of the above range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect future performance-based increases. In addition to salary, PBF offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes bonus eligibility, health care, retirement benefits, and paid time off.

We thank all respondents for their interest in PBF Holding Company LLC ("PBF Energy"), however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please nophone calls or emails to any employee of PBF Energy about this requisition. Placement agencies or recruiters need not respond. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee of PBF Energy via email, the Internet or in any method without a valid written search agreement will be deemed the sole property of PBF Energy. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by PBF Energy as a result of the referral or through other means.

PBF Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, reproductive health decision making, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, veteran and military status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations as required by law.

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