Supply Chain Development Director

4 days ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States The Kraft Heinz Company Full time

Supply Chain Development Director

We are seeking a highly skilled Supply Chain Development Director to lead our commercialization efforts. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for driving technical and supply chain readiness to support commercialization activity.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead technical and supply chain readiness to support commercialization activity by applying tools that prepare the supply chain and manufacturing facilities for successful start-ups.
  • Optimize growth, capacity, supply continuity, and cost-out initiatives, including manufacturing asset optimization.
  • Provide updates to leadership, platform leads, project teams, and vendors as needed on key initiatives, including progress against goals, cost management, next steps, and needs from sponsors to alleviate roadblocks.
  • Be the liaison between the business team and the manufacturing site and co-manufacturer.
  • Support business and manufacturing systems initiatives as needed.
  • Lead continuous improvement of the commercialization process through collaboration with key partners and best practice sharing.
  • Manage and develop growth and innovation pipeline requests, in partnership with marketing and sales, to ensure the proper financial and capability hurdles are accurately met.
  • Pilot the manufacturing element of commercialization as it relates to NPDs and cost-out changes, while providing cross-functional support to the agile pods and platform teams.
  • Be the conduit between 3rd-party vendors and KHC driving NPDs at a co-manufacturing site.
  • Provide input and solutions in commercialization meetings as they relate to manufacturing solutions.
  • Support the Supply Chain Commercialization team during project prioritization to align on MOQs for materials and production to mitigate Supply Chain Losses.
  • Partner with EM Quality to ensure that any NPDs targeted are compliant.

Requirements:

  • 7 years of related experience in manufacturing, business development, or HQ business team experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Food Science, Chemistry, or other related fields.
  • Possess experience working in a consumer food company; startup experience preferred.
  • Minimum 2 years in Plant Manufacturing preferred.
  • Experience with basic Marketing/Finance principles.
  • Eager to build new procedures and processes from scratch.
  • Proven problem-solving skills with a proactive mentality.
  • Ability to translate business expectations into supply chain solutions.
  • Possess strong planning, project management, and execution skills.
  • Experience working cross-functionally in a matrixed environment, both regionally and globally.
  • Be agile, adaptable, flexible, and thrive in a multifaceted and changing culture environment.
  • Possess strong digital literacy, including a high level of proficiency in MS Office, specifically Excel, amongst others.

This position is considered a normal office environment (3 days onsite hybrid); offices are open workspaces. Ability to travel at least 35% of the time (mostly within the USA).

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.

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