MRO Data Analytics & Sourcing Specialist

Kraft Heinz; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Wellbeing programs

401(k) plan

Job summary

Kraft Heinz is seeking an experienced Data Analyst for Procurement – MRO in Chicago. You will transform sourcing, supplier, inventory, and maintenance data into actionable insights to drive cost savings and faster sourcing decisions.

You will partner across Procurement, Finance, IT, and plant teams to identify value opportunities and build repeatable analytical tools. The role requires advanced Excel, data modeling, and experience with SAP/Ariba; familiarity with Power BI, SQL, Python, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
• 3+ years of analytics/procurement/supply chain experience.
• Advanced Excel with data modeling and Power Query.
• Experience with large, imperfect datasets and reconciling sources.
• Ability to simplify complex data for decision making.
• Strong problem-solving, project management, communication, and stakeholder skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, materials, and buying channels (SAP, Ariba catalog and non-catalog).
• Clean, enrich, classify, and reconcile purchasing data, supplier invoices, catalog, contract, inventory, and material master data.
• Identify savings opportunities through price variance analysis, supplier consolidation, demand aggregation, tail-spend analysis, specification alignment, and sourcing opportunity sizing.
• Build item-level pricing benchmarks using supplier quotations, distributor catalogs, transaction history, RFP data, and market information.
• Analyze supplier price changes, inflation, freight, surcharges, and tariff claims; document assumptions and simplify complex data for decision making.
• Analyze inventory consumption trends, stock levels, inventory turns, excess/obsolete materials; support working-capital improvement.
• Partner with maintenance and plant stakeholders to validate material usage and site requirements.
• Develop supplier scorecards and track cost, quality, service, delivery, continuity, and contract-performance metrics.
• Assist with strategic sourcing events by preparing baselines, bid files, models, analyses, and implementation tracking.
• Monitor catalog utilization, leakage spend, and off-contract purchasing; identify corrective actions and measure results.
• Help create dashboards and automated reporting for supplier spend, project pipeline, savings, inventory, and sourcing execution.
• Establish transparent savings calculations and partner with Finance for validation.
• Continuously improve analytical processes, reporting cadence, data controls, and documentation.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data storytelling

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Problem solving

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics

Tools

Excel

SAP

Ariba

Power BI

SQL

Python

Alteryx

Job description

Kraft Heinz is seeking an experienced Data Analyst for Procurement – MRO in Chicago. You will transform sourcing, supplier, inventory, and maintenance data into actionable insights to drive cost savings and faster sourcing decisions.

You will partner across Procurement, Finance, IT, and plant teams to identify value opportunities and build repeatable analytical tools. The role requires advanced Excel, data modeling, and experience with SAP/Ariba; familiarity with Power BI, SQL, Python, and