Senior Manager Indirects Marketing Services

U025 Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC Company - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

About the position

The Senior Manager, Indirects - Marketing Services at Kraft Heinz is responsible for leading sourcing and category management for a diverse portfolio of critical categories. This role involves managing supplier relationships, ensuring customer satisfaction, and developing strategic sourcing projects to optimize supplier selection and performance. The position requires a strong focus on establishing performance goals, managing total cost of ownership, and enabling continuous process improvement while fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead mid to executive-level clients and supplier relationships to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Establish and deliver performance goals for a portfolio of categories representing significant spend.
• Lead strategic sourcing projects for supplier selection and optimization.
• Handle supplier relationships and conduct Supplier Business Reviews, addressing performance and risk issues.
• Identify business needs at the sourcing and category project level in areas such as Assurance of Supply, Quality, Service, Cost, and Innovation.
• Develop multi-year category vision and strategy based on data, insights, and business requirements.
• Build and maintain strong business relationships to influence total category spend.
• Identify and evaluate potential value-generating projects based on complexity, resources, risk, and financial impact.
• Manage a prioritized portfolio of projects for the category in the near and long term.
• Lead the supplier selection and RFx award process.
• Perform sophisticated contracts in accordance with policies and processes.
• Apply expert negotiation techniques in all situations.
• Maintain a strong understanding of category dynamics and communicate changes to business partners.
• Manage Total Cost of Ownership at the category level in collaboration with Data Analytics.
• Enable continuous process improvement and cost reduction.
• Ensure the strategic sourcing process is applied to all sourcing projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, finance, business, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Procurement, preferably in Indirect Procurement with relevant category expertise.
• Familiarity with eProcurement Source-to-Pay tools (e.g., Ariba & Workday) is desirable.
• Experience in Supplier Performance & Risk Management tools is desirable.
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
• Experience in developing long-term business strategies.
• Extensive experience in the sourcing life cycle process and tools.
• Ability to handle confidential information and complicated business situations.
• Strong project management, problem-solving, leadership, and team-building skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with largest food equipment manufacturers and industry leaders is a plus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 7% 401(k) matching.
• Access to Business Resource Groups (BRGs) for diversity and inclusion.
• High discretionary bonus as part of the total rewards package.