at The Kraft Heinz Foods Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description
Role:
The Associate Director Zone Technical Logistics, Project Execution is a strategic role that owns the productivity pipeline, capital expenditure plans, and ESG initiatives for North America Logistics. This role leads a team of project managers, and analysts to explore and recommend initiatives and drive the execution within both the warehousing and transportation space. This role partners closing with the Logistics Operations function to ensure that the largest gaps and opportunities are identified and addressed in a priority order to drive efficiency. This role will play a key role in driving Kraft Heinz into the future and staying competitive with KHC's supply chain. This role will require building relationships and influencing both internal stakeholders and external vendors as well as coaching and developing your team to deliver the business results.
Responsibilities:
Own the KHC North America Productivity Pipeline, ideation through execution for warehousing and transportation.
Lead process for cross functional collaboration to develop 2-to-3-year pipeline of ideas including process improvements, best practice sharing, technologies, automation, etc. to drive efficiency.
Own productivity reporting with finance partnership.
Bring recommendations of new tools/technologies to solve our current business problems/opportunities and the business case to justify. Including leading strategic project to install technology and infrastructure to automate and streamline carrier interactions with warehouse including gate, pre-arrival, and onsite coordination.
Own LMS and YMS technology strategies and solution optimization
Build the Capital Expenditure Strategic plan for the North America network to ensure the correct maintenance, cost improvement projects are budgeted and accounted for on an annual basis.
Ensure proper execution of Capital Expenditure plan and review and align with stakeholders' capital approval requests for warehouse package.
Develop Material Handling Equipment strategy for total North America network.
Manage Capital Asset strategies for entire North America warehouse network and ensure proper projects to avoid business interruption for ~1B of assets.
Coach and develop team of project managers to effectively execute and prioritize projects to deliver optimal results and efficiencies.
Lead coordination between digital team and warehousing/trans team to ensure all digital/IT projects are aligned and meet timelines.
Own automation workstream from ideation, alignment to execution. Automation within the 4 walls of our warehouses.
Lead the ESG/Net Zero roadmap and tying projects to overall KHC ESG goals.
Provide consultation and support in operational issues through resolution.
Partner closely with Logistics Operations team to ensure alignment of priorities based on operational gaps and opportunity areas.
Develop relationship with manufacturing to bring best practices between manufacturing and logistics to enable KHC to capitalize on scale where applicable.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree; Engineering or Logistics/Supply Degree strongly preferred.
7-10 years business experience is required; preferably in a Logistics/Supply Chain or Supply Chain Consulting capacity
Experience within the warehouse highly recommended
Prior experience in analyzing financial, supply chain related data and optimization modelling
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint), BI, Tableau
Career Experience
Ability to be comfortable in a fast paced, stressful environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experienced project leadership skills
Strategy and vision
Leader of multi-dimensional team and deliverables
High capacity for complex decision making
Technical Expertise
Technologically savvy
Keen analytics
Results oriented
Strong problem solving skills
Construction knowledge
LMS, YMS, WMS
CAPEX and financial managementLocation(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... 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.
