Manager, Indirects - Marketing Procurement

Job Description

• Ability to deeply understand and utilize procurement processes, tools, and systems, execute, and oversee lifecycle management processes. Be a proven expert in category planning, development, and execution, as well as ability to achieve tangible results in competitive and non-competitive supplier negotiations both directly and as a coach to others.
• Manage 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 complex 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 execute Category Management vision and strategies.
• Manage Supplier Relationships and conduct Supplier Business Reviews – High Level Escalation Point for Performance and Risk Issues.
• As a component of supplier management activities for the role, 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.
• Support major supplier issues and work with stakeholders 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 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, 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.
• Executes highly complex contracts in accordance with policies and processes; ability to apply competency across categories.
• Applies expert level of negotiation techniques and tools in all situations; ability to apply competency.
• 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 stakeholders.
• Manage Total Cost of Ownership 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.
• Collaborates with global procurement peers to ensure support of and alignment to the supported functions.

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, finance, business, or related field. Candidates with extensive relevant experience and certifications (e.g., CPM, CPIM, etc.) may 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. Marketing background a plus.
• Experience in Supplier Performance and Risk Management tools desirable.
• Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills, as well as interpersonal and presentation skills.
• 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.
• Strong Business acumen 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.
• Possesses 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, and outstanding customer service skills.
• Judgment to handle confidential information and…