Procurement Excellence Specialist

Job Description
Objective:
The Procurement Excellence Specialist is responsible to identify opportunities to optimize processes and standardize workflows for Procurement to ensure efficiencies, control aligned with policies, reduce risks to fulfill policies compliance and visualize continues improvement on purchasing process, as well as the suppliers' relationships and technology usage to reach operative and strategic excellence. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in procurement processes, internal controls and ethics & compliance knowledge. This position works together with Procurement buyers and top management being the link between Procurement global policies and local alignments and Internal Controls-Audits needs.
Process Optimization: Analize policies against daily management to identify deviations and set action plans to Improve purchasing workflows, making processes more efficient using technology and best practices.
Supplier Management: Support communications and training with suppliers related to process linked to Source to Pay to ensure KH ethics and compliance standards are met.
Cost Analysis: Understand spending and cost related with suppliers to ensure 100% contract compliance.
Contract Compliance: Work closely with buyers to ensure the proper contract implementation as per policy threshold, minimizing risk and protecting the company's interests.
Policies Understanding: Identify deviations, opportunities for improvement and predict potential risks on thresholds that exceed the policy to establish action plans. Review both global and WEEM policies, to cascade to Procurement teams to explain changes ensuring full compliance internally with Procurement and Stakeholders and externals, as suppliers. Review with other BU's to re-apply best practices locally that improves Mexico performance on Procurement Excellence.
Focus on Data Collection: Extract information from ERP, SRM, ARIBA, MDG and other management tools on purchasing history, pricing, and suppliers to analyze thresholds and data to fulfill dashboards and look for improvements according to the guidelines set by the policies.
S2P Finance Compliance: Ensure that Procurement complies with local and international regulations and policies (like No PO - No Pay policy) and helps to identify best practices or areas that needs to put controls, aligning criteria with stakeholders involved.
Training and Development: Seeks to enhance the purchasing team's skills to foster a continuous improvement mindset. Seek process improvements with external suppliers and internal customers aligned with policies to reduce poor practices in the S2P process.
Audit Companion: Coordinate and map different audits calendar and needs on where Procurement is related with internal stakeholders and external teams (auditors and consultancies suppliers) to ensure 100% compliance and minimize deviation risks.
Strategy: Identify automation projects as per current manual workload for process optimization and ensure control. Guarantee the correct alignment among Internal Controls, Procurement Excellence global teams and KHC related to policies, processes and procedures.
Activities:
1. Contract compliance. Ensure Procurement Contracts are properly in place in Ariba, Be capable to identify opportunities to align system according with contract policy through active interaction with Procurement and Legal teams.
2. Procurement policies deviations. Analyse and identify opportunities to ensure Procurement processes are aligned with GEN01, GEN03, GEN43, Global Procurement Policy and Procurement Playbook.
3. Audits. Assist audits and follow-up on deliverables to ensure observations closing on time together with stakeholders.
4.Data cleaning. Maintain KPI's on SRM open PO's >360 days. Identify mismatches on WAPT reports.
Knowledge & Experience
+3 years of experience in Procurement Excellence, Audit, Internal Controls and/or Ethics & Compliance areas.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain management, business administration or equivalent
Business fluent Spanish and English
Strong knowledge on process mapping, flowcharts, internal controls management
Knowledge of SAP, Ariba system, Project Management desirable
Advanced Excel
Capability
Good communication in different levels, strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively
Dynamic & analytical
Good interpersonal skills & strategic approach
Ability to operate and execute effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and challenging deadlines
Resilient and process oriented with strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving capabilities
Ability to multitask and juggle projects at varying levels of complexity
Demonstrated ability to develop relationships, influence key decision makers internally & externally, regionally and globally
Connected and aligned to policies and processes with high ethical standards that could be an ambassador of KHC's values
Location(s)
Mexico, D.F.
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.