Sr. Buyer, Ingredients

2 months ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Kraft Heinz Full time

Job Description
Job Purpose
As a Senior Buyer for Ingredients, you will be a member of Kraft Heinz's North American Zone's (U.S. and Canada) Ingredient Procurement team and play a role in identifying suppliers supporting critical categories for the business. You will deliver value to the organization by facilitating the strategic sourcing process, establishing and maintaining relationships with our external manufacturers and 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.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities

  • 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, and category and supplier segmentation. You will lead sourcing events, analysis, negotiations, contracting, and implementation.
  • Category Strategy: To ensure the most effective supply base design, you will develop the category strategy and ongoing category management resulting from sourcing activities. You will collaborate with risk management to understand product pricing movements and develop mitigation and optimization strategies to support them.
  • Category Management: The scope of this position includes category financial planning and budget setting related to respective spending areas. To support the business, you will need to solve problems related to unexpected supply, new product development, and project timeline challenges.
  • Project Management: The role will deliver specific efficiency 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.

Expected Experience & Required Skills

  • 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.
  • Possess at least three of demonstrated ability in procurement, purchasing, strategic sourcing, or a related field. Prior experience in external manufacturing or direct procurement (e.g., Ingredients, Packaging, etc.) is helpful.
  • Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills, as well as 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 demeanor; 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 partners.
  • 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 have an understanding of source-to-pay tools (SAP, Ariba, etc.).

Location(s)
Chicago/Aon Center
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact .


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