Sr. Manager, Productivity & Supply Chain Dev.- Meat & Cheese

U025 Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC Company - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

About the position

The role involves leading productivity and supply chain development efforts for large-scale projects within the Meat & Cheese Supply Chain. The position focuses on ensuring effective collaboration with various partners, tracking project timelines and costs, troubleshooting financial issues, and delivering financial targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead productivity efforts for large scale projects.
• Ensure effective team engagement, including establishing and leading team meetings.
• Review project timelines and costs regularly with the project team and facilitate the creation of mitigation/contingency plans.
• Track and forecast all Productivity projects across the Meat & Cheese Supply Chain.
• Troubleshoot financial and system issues to ensure appropriate tracking and forecasting of Productivity projects.
• Lead and deliver assigned financial targets while leading resource and funding prioritization.
• Engage and support efficiency agenda to deliver cost reduction targets.
• Support Business and Manufacturing Systems initiatives as needed and promote continuous improvement through collaboration with key partners.
• Lead and/or participate in various partner governance forums (i.e. Ops Stage gate/Leadership teams).
• Lead commercialization efforts for large scale projects, platform innovation programs, or significant capital-related initiatives.
• Develop and recommend alternatives as needed and provide updates to project sponsors and stakeholders on key initiatives.
• Escalate concerns and issues, define options/trade-offs, and provide team recommendations.
• Lead internal feasibility assessments and business cases to support business team's scoping requests.
• Identify impact across the supply chain regarding cost of goods sold, capacity utilization, manufacturing efficiency, quality, and safety.
• Partner with External Manufacturing managers and EM procurement to deliver against scoping activities outside of current capabilities.
• Partner with Business Units, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Engineering to develop a strategic capacity plan.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Food Science, Chemistry, or other related field.
• Minimum of 4 years combined experience in manufacturing, business development, Engineering, or HQ business team experience.
• 1 year experience in Project Management for Consumer Products.
• 1 year experience in Basic Supply Chain/Finance Principles.
• Strong analytical skills and financial acumen.
• Ability to plan and complete transformation of supply chains from a cost standpoint.
• Proven ability to build and strengthen relationships and lead through ambiguity.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with food industry standards and regulations.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance bonuses.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities.