Sr. Manager, NA Procurement - Portfolio Productivity - Canada

About the position We have an excellent opportunity available for an experienced Portfolio & Productivity Leader to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The role of [BU] Portfolio Productivity Sr. Manager lies North America Region, and is responsible to lead an integrated, BU-centric productivity agenda to drive financial and strategic performance meeting best-in-class industry benchmarks. In this role you will act as a critical partner to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, leading the productivity agenda for [BU] and acting as a link between the BU team and functional stakeholders to ensure alignment, and successful delivery of the BU productivity agenda.

You’ll be reporting to the Head of Value Creation, North America Region. Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders. The management and delivery of [BU]’s productivity program will be your primary responsibility.

• Champion and lead productivity strategy agenda within BU, including integrated planning with annual business cycles (3-year plan, 1-year plan) and productivity target setting linked changes in procurement and operations cost base and desired portfolio margin performance.
• Lead cross-functional teams to build, launch, and successfully deliver portfolio productivity project pipeline (value engineering, PPA, CMA, in/out-sourcing, etc.).
• Partner with BU CFO office and central FP&A team(s) to embed and maintain routine end-to-end productivity forecasting and reporting via monthly [BU] business cycles/routines.
• Lead productivity reporting/review routine with central (regional) stakeholder leadership team and functional teams (Procurement, Operations) to ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Maintain holistic visibility of in-year and future productivity pipeline at both BU and Platform (finished good category) level.
• Proactively partner with relevant stakeholders, central finance, and growth office PMO to report on end-to-end portfolio performance
• Co-lead AOP cycle to set and support productivity component of portfolio/category performance in partnership with BU CFO office, category finance teams, and portfolio GMs.
• As necessary, lead ad-hoc internal/external assessments to determine portfolio margin competitiveness.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, engineering; MBA or masters in finance/operations is a plus.
• Extensive project/program management experience in a large, matrixed organization
• 4-6 years work experience in FMCG.
• Strong understanding of P&L structure and drivers
• Strong understanding of operational projects
• Expert collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Strategic mindset and ability to simplify the complex, with clear storytelling to executive level
• Expert ability in Microsoft office (particularly Excel, PowerPoint)
• Communication Skills
  - People are easily be exposed to senior management, no matter their level. Therefore, it’s important to have excellent interpersonal skills, to take care of all kinds of different collaborators.
• Confident / Ability to give pushback
  - We like people who are go getters and are not easily thrown off their game, not even when getting resistance.
• Ability to Simplify
  - We like to keep it simple. And to implement fast. Your simplification skills will be highly appreciated, when providing simple solutions dealing with sophisticated challenges.
• Commercial Sense
  - Always seeking for opportunities to expand your business and build more savings, while over delivering your targets.
• Analytical
  - We’re a very data driven company, making it crucial to be able to translate complex data into a simple solution with an analytical approach.

• An ambitious employer; we only want the best for you.
• A fast career track like only few other companies can match.
• A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market); at Kraft Heinz we strongly believe and live by ownership and meritocracy.
• A hybrid working model; because we believe the future of work is based on a building modern, adaptable, and agile workplace culture. 3 days from our office in Amsterdam and 2 days from home with additional 20 days per year to work from…