Buyer, Ingredients - Gelatin, Pectin, Vinegar Preservatives

The Procurement Buyer is a member of Kraft Heinz’s North American Procurement team and plays a role in identifying multifaceted sources of the various categories with a total spend of $75MM across the NA Zone. You will deliver value to the organization by facilitating the strategic sourcing process, establishing, and maintaining relationships with suppliers, and developing the category strategy and ongoing category management.

You will help us live our value of Daring to Do Better Every Day by delivering productivity and cash flow targets that are focused on our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). You will work and collaborate closely with several cross‑functional areas.

• Strategic Sourcing:
  Most of your focus will be on facilitating the strategic sourcing process for the category and related subcategories. You will be expected to develop a thorough understanding of the market and the conditions affecting cost and product availability through market and industry analysis, supplier research and review, category, and supplier segmentation. You will lead sourcing events, analysis, negotiations, contracting, and implementation.
• Category Strategy:
  You will be responsible for developing the category strategy and ongoing category management resulting from sourcing activities to ensure the most effective supply base design. You will collaborate with risk management to understand product pricing movements and develop mitigation and/or optimization strategies to support.
• Category Management:
  The scope of this position includes category financial planning and budget setting as related to respective spending areas. You will need to be able to problem solve unexpected supply, new product development, and project timeline challenges to support the business.
• Project Management:
  The role will deliver specific productivity and cash flow targets in relation to their categories in alignment with overarching goals and objectives for the NA Procurement organization, focusing on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This position is linked closely with several cross‑functional areas from an overall project management perspective and strategy execution.

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or operations management, finance, or related field. Candidates with equivalent related experience will be considered instead of a degree.
• 2+ years of experience in direct procurement, purchasing, strategic sourcing, or a related field. Commodity and price risk management experience is highly beneficial.
• Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills and interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to understand, organize, and communicate complex information in an easily understandable format tailored to various audiences.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, support requests from, and interact directly across all levels of the organization.
• We “own” it at KHC, and success requires a results‑oriented, self‑motivated, proactive, independent, and responsive individual.
• Have strong analytical, planning, and execution skills, including exceptional attention to detail.
• Possess a strategic mindset; can effectively articulate various perspectives and impacts of issues and understand the future implications for the business. Able to see all sides and the inherent value to stakeholders.
• Able to effectively negotiate and influence business decisions and change.
• Able to multitask and juggle projects at varying levels of complexity.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and understanding of source‑to‑pay tools (SAP, Ariba, etc.).

This position is considered a normal office environment with limited travel or visits to external locations; offices are open work spaces. To create a more agile and modern workplace, we allow Chicago/Aon Center based employees to work virtually for up to two days each week and expect them to work in‑person during the defined core days at their assigned work location at least three days per workweek.

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