Manager, Ingredients - Cooked Protein and Seafood

Job Description
Job Purpose
As a Procurement Manager for Ingredients - Cooked Proteins and Seafood, you will lead all strategic planning and sourcing activities for the assigned categories and related subcategories across the North American Zone (U.S. and Canada). You will use your experience and knowledge to build comprehensive strategies at the category level and implement the strategy through the sourcing process. Through effective supplier and contract management, you will drive program compliance, generating value for Kraft Heinz. Your work will drive sustainable strategies that actively seek to reduce and control costs for ingredients while increasing efficiency for the business.
This role requires close partnership and collaboration with various partners in various Business Units, Operations, R&D, Legal, Finance, Quality, and External Manufacturing/Innovation Procurement to provide innovative new products and services to meet business objectives. Success in the role requires balancing superior service to internal business clients while enhancing value for the company.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Ability to deeply understand and use procurement processes, tools, and systems and implement and supervise lifecycle management processes. A proven expert in category planning, development, and execution. Ability to achieve tangible results in competitive and non-competitive supplier negotiations directly and as a coach to others.
• Manage mid to executive-level clients and supplier relationships continuously to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Lead sourcing and category management for Kraft Heinz's comprehensive portfolio of sophisticated and critical categories, including identifying and assessing potential new supplier partners for business viability, including financial and quality.
• Establish and deliver performance goals for a portfolio of categories representing significant spend. Includes driving productivity projects -initial scoping and implementation throughout the network while working with a cross-functional team through execution.
• Lead strategic sourcing projects for supplier selection/optimization to implement Category Management vision and strategies.
• Manage Supplier Relationships and conduct Supplier Business Reviews, including being the primary point of contact for performance and risk issues.
• As part of the role's supplier management activities, you will segment suppliers at the category level while developing and managing the supplier base for your categories.
• Lead discussions with critical suppliers around long-term objectives and strategies, ongoing market trends, innovation and technology advances, and potential investment decisions.
• Facilitate supplier collaboration with the assigned set of critical suppliers to use their capabilities, achieve continuous improvement, and bring innovation to the business.
• Support major supplier issues and work with partners to identify and drive resolution.
• Identify business needs at the sourcing and category project level in the following areas: assurance of supply, quality, service, cost, and innovation. Develop a multi-year category vision and strategy based on the data, insights, and business requirements.
• Build strong business relationships to increase influence over total category spend.
• Identify and evaluate potential value-generating projects based on complexity, resources, risk, implementation time, and estimated financial impact.
• Manage a prioritized portfolio of projects for the category in the near and long term.
• Lead the supplier selection and RFx award process.
• Drives sophisticated contracts following policies and processes; can apply competency across categories.
• Actively understand category dynamics (current market, pricing, cost drivers, industry, and supplier variables) through trade groups, publications, etc., and communicate changes to business partners.
• Manage Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) at the category level and be accountable for measuring and reporting value delivery.
• Enable continuous process improvement and cost reduction.
• Ensure the strategic sourcing process is robustly applied to all sourcing projects.

Expected Experience & Required Skills

• Possess at least 3 to 5 years of demonstrated ability in direct Procurement, preferably in ingredient/commodities procurement, with relevant category expertise.
• Effective negotiator and influencer with demonstrated examples with internal stakeholders and external suppliers/partners.
• Experience in Supplier Performance and Risk Management tools is highly desirable.
• Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills, as well as interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Proven project management skills, solid analytical and consultative skills, and the ability to make sound, data-driven business decisions. Prior experience with business case development and multi-workstream project management is critical to success in this role.
• Strong intuition for business with the ability to understand and explain Procurement results and variances to non-Procurement audiences.
• Experience in developing long-term business strategies and confidence when doing so.
• Extensive experience in the sourcing life cycle process and a firm grasp of the tools needed to complete it.
• Ability to multi-task, attention to detail, organized, outstanding customer service skills.
• Judgment to handle confidential information and complicated business situations; ability to lead and influence others; project management, problem-solving, leadership, and team-building skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and an understanding of source-to-pay tools (SAP, Ariba, etc.).

This job description is not designed to cover or contain all duties or responsibilities the role requires. Duties or responsibilities may change or be added with or without notice.
Our Total Rewards philosophy is to provide a meaningful and flexible spectrum of programs that equitably support our diverse workforce and their families and complement Kraft Heinz' strategy and values.
New Hire Base Salary Range:
$102,100.00 - $127,600.00
Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
The compensation offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors
Benefits: Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family's needs. Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.
Wellbeing: We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.
You'll be able to participate in a variety of benefits and wellbeing programs that may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors, for example:

• Physical - Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
• Social - Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
• Emotional - Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
• Financial - 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability

Location(s)
Chicago/Aon Center
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact [email protected] for assistance.