Procurement Manager

Description:

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Lead mid to executive-level clients and supplier relationships on an ongoing basis to ensure customer satisfaction.

• Lead Sourcing and Category Management for a wide portfolio of sophisticated and/or critical categories to Kraft Heinz.

• Establish and deliver performance goals for a portfolio of categories representing a significant amount of spend.

• Lead strategic sourcing projects for supplier selection/optimization to implement Category Management vision and strategies.

• Handle Supplier Relationships and conducts Supplier Business Reviews – High Level Partner concern Point for Performance and Risk Issues.

• Develop and handle supplier base for specific categories.

• Lead discussions with critical suppliers around long-term objectives and strategies, ongoing market trends, innovation and technology advances, and potential investment decisions.

• Support major supplier issues and work with team members to identify and drive resolutions.

• Identify business needs at the sourcing and category project level in the following areas: Assurance of Supply, Quality, Service, Cost, and Innovation (AQSCI).

• Develop multi-year category vision and strategy based on the data, insights, and business requirements.

• Build and maintain strong business relationships to increase influence over total category spend.

• Identify and evaluate potential value generating projects based on complexity, resources, risk, time to implement, and estimated financial impact.

• Manage prioritized portfolio of projects for the category in the near and long term.

• Lead the supplier selection and RFx award process.

• Perform highly sophisticated contracts in accordance with policies and processes; ability to apply competency across categories.

• expert level of negotiation techniques and tools in all situations.

• Actively maintain strong understanding of category dynamics (current market, pricing, cost drivers, industry, and supplier variables) through trade groups, publications, etc. and communicates changes to business partners.

• Manage Total Cost of Ownership at the category level through collaboration with Data Analytics, 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

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, finance, business, or related field. Candidates with extensive relevant experience and certifications will be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Possess at least 5 to 7 years of experience in Procurement, preferably in Indirect Procurement with relevant category expertise.

• Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills, as well as interpersonal and presentation skills.

• Effective negotiator and influencer with demonstrated examples with internal stakeholders and external suppliers/partners.

• Strong Business acumen with the ability to understand and explain Procurement results and variances to non-Procurement audiences.

• Proven project management skills along with solid analytical and consultative skills; able 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.

• Experience in developing long-term business strategies and confidence when doing so.

• Extensive experience in the sourcing life cycle process and have a strong grasp of the tools needed to complete the process.

• 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 have an understanding for source-to-pay tools (SAP, Ariba, Workday, etc.).