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Background and purpose
Spend analysis is the systematic assessment of historical expenditure data to improve visibility, strengthen compliance and control, and identify risks and opportunities. It provides an overview of organizational spending and supports improved supplier management and more strategic sourcing decisions.
The Netherlands Red Cross aims to strengthen its procurement function by enhancing spend visibility, efficiency, compliance, and strategic sourcing. As part of this effort, a revised procurement policy is being introduced, including a new governance model that shifts greater responsibility to requesters, while positioning procurement specialists in a more advisory, risk management, and strategic role.
This transition is part of a broader organizational objective to break down silos and harmonize policies, procedures, and ways of working across headquarters, regions, and international operations. Currently, procurement responsibilities are partially centralized, with dedicated procurement specialists supporting international projects. The ambition is to extend this role to provide advisory support organization-wide.
A spend analysis is required to support this transition by providing insights into:
Expenditure patterns and transaction profiles
Supplier dependencies and concentration risks
Opportunities for cost optimization and process improvement
Overall visibility of organizational spend across suppliers
Compliance risks, including non-competitive procurement and supplier over-reliance
Opportunities for strengthening procurement strategies, including framework agreements and supplier management
Data-driven decision-making
Autres informations
The analysis will also serve to inform and support the implementation of the new procurement policy and governance model.
Objectives
The objective of this assignment is to:
Provide full visibility over organizational spend
Identify cost-saving opportunities and efficiency improvements
Advise on tools or approaches to track savings and efficiency gains
Identify procurement risks (e.g. limited competition, lack of compliance, supplier dependency)
Support the development of procurement strategy
Enable data-driven decision-making
Provide a phased roadmap for incremental implementation of identified improvements
Scope of work
Data analysis
Analyze spend data (invoices, suppliers, procurements)
Assess:
Supplier spend concentration
Number of transactions
Average spend per supplier
Spend by procurement category
Spend by cluster/team and identification of key stakeholders for engagement
Cost categories
Process Analysis:
% spend under contract
use of preferred suppliers
Risk & opportunity analysis
Identify:
supplier dependency risks
fragmentation
inefficiencies
Propose: framework agreements, supplier consolidation
Strategic recommendations
Develop actionable recommendations on procurement model, supplier strategy, efficiency
Provide a clear implementation roadmap with phases and timelines
Timeframe: Spend from the last 12-24 months.
Geographical scope: all transactions across the head office in all clusters and regional offices.
Data sources: actual expenditure (invoices) - Exact Financials and filtered on Dagboek 200-isp Facturen - inkoop.
Deliverables
The consultant will deliver:
Présentation du poste
Meeting
Powerpoint
Timeline
Duration: 8 weeks
Scope: Last 12–24 months of spend
Draft report in November
Final deliverables and presentation session December.
The workplan is flexible and can be adapted by the consultant – end of year is preferable.
Methodology
Quantitative analysis will include:
Supplier spend volume
Number of invoices
Supplier concentration and dependency
Spend by procurement category
Average invoice value
Qualitative analysis will include:
% of spend under contract
% spend through preferred suppliers
% of spend under PO’s, etc.
Attention should be given to identifying where spending is concentrated across teams and clusters, to prioritize areas with the highest potential for improved compliance, cost savings, and risk mitigation.
Consultant profile – required expertise
Expérience
The consultant should have, proven experience in:
spend analysis - mandatory
Formation / Diplômes
procurement transformation - preferred
change management - preferred
Experience with:
NGOs / humanitarian sector (preferred)
Strong analytical skills (Excel / Power BI)
Ability to translate data into actionable insights
Ability to translate technical data into plain text for non-expert stakeholders.
Languages spoken: Dutch and English (mandatory)
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