at The Kraft Heinz Foods Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description
The Category Manager of Transportation will be responsible for leading all strategic planning and sourcing activities for 2 + related subcategories (e.g. Dedicated Full-Truckload and CPU) with total spend of $270 Million across the Kraft Heinz NA enterprise and various suppliers. This position will leverage their experience and knowledge to build comprehensive strategies at the category level and execute the strategy through the sourcing process. They will drive program compliance through Supplier and Contract Management creating value for Kraft Heinz. This position will drive sustainable strategies that will actively seek to reduce and/or control costs for transportation services while increasing efficiencies for the business. This position will work closely with the stakeholders in Logistics, various Business Units, Customer Excellence, Operations and Corporate functions to provide innovative services to meet business objectives. The successful candidate must be able to focus on balancing superior service to internal business clients, while maximizing value for the company of services purchased.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Key competency expectations for the role are the ability to deeply understand and utilize procurement processes,
tools, and systems, execute & oversee lifecycle management process, be a proven expert in category planning,
development & execution, as well as ability to achieve tangible results in competitive and non-competitive
supplier negotiations both directly and as a coach to others.
- Manage mid to executive-level clients and supplier relationships on an ongoing basis to ensure customer
satisfaction
- Lead Sourcing and Category Management for North American Transportation categories to Kraft Heinz
- Establish and deliver performance goals for categories representing a significant amount of spend
- Lead strategic sourcing projects for supplier selection/optimization to execute Category Management
vision and strategies
- Manage Supplier Relationships and conducts Supplier Business Reviews - High Level Escalation Point for
Performance and Risk Issues (e.g. experience with National & Regional Transportation Industry leaders is
a plus)
- As part of Supplier Management, segments suppliers at category level
- Develop and manage supplier base for specific categories
- Lead discussions with critical suppliers around long-term objectives and strategies, ongoing market
trends, innovation and technology advances, and potential investment decisions
- Support major supplier issues and work with stakeholders to identify and drive resolution
- Identify business needs at the sourcing and category project level in assigned areas
- Develop multi-year category vision and strategy based on the data, insights and business requirements.
- Build strong business relationships to increase influence over total category spend
- Identify and evaluate potential value generating projects based on complexity, resources, risk, time to
implement, and estimated financial impact
- Manage prioritized portfolio of projects for the category in the near and long term
- Lead the supplier selection and RFx award process
- Execute highly complex contracts in accordance with policies and processes; ability to apply competency
across categories
- Applies expert level of negotiation techniques and tools in all situations; ability to apply competency
across categories
- Actively maintain a strong understanding of category dynamics (current market, pricing, cost drivers,
industry, and supplier variables) through trade groups, publications, etc. and communicate changes to
business stakeholders
- Manage Total Cost of Ownership at the category level through collaboration with Data Analytics, accountable for measuring and reporting value delivery - Enable continuous process improvement and cost reduction - Ensure the strategic sourcing process is robustly applied to all sourcing projects - Is a positive challenger and influencer - Collaborates with global procurement peers to ensure support of and alignment with the supported functions - Directly manage and develop internal and third-party administrator team resources
Requirements:
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and... For full info follow application link.
It is the continuing policy of The Kraft Heinz Company to afford full equal employment opportunity to qualified employees and applicants, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental handicaps, military or veteran status, sexual preference, or any other protected condition or characteristic in conformity with all applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations.
Final candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without Company sponsorship. Exceptions requesting work visa sponsorship will be reviewed on a case to case basis.
