Portfolio Productivity Lead, Procurement (NA)

Kraft Heinz; Illinois; On-site; USD 142,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing programs

Employee discounts

401k plan

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Kraft Heinz is seeking an experienced Portfolio & Productivity Leader to drive an integrated BU-centric productivity agenda across the North America region. You will partner with cross-functional teams and act as the link between BU and functional stakeholders to deliver productivity programs and improve portfolio margins.

In this role you will lead planning cycles, maintain visibility of your productivity pipeline, and collaborate with finance teams to forecast and report on performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, science, or engineering; MBA or masters in finance/operations a plus.
• Extensive project/program management experience in a large, matrixed organization
• 5–8 years of work experience in FMCG
• Strong understanding of P&L structure and drivers
• Strong understanding of operational projects
• Expert collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Strategic mindset and ability to simplify the complex, with clear storytelling to executive level
• Expert ability in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Lead productivity strategy agenda within BU, including integrated planning with annual business cycles and productivity target setting linked changes in procurement and operations cost base and desired portfolio margin performance.
• Lead cross-functional teams to build, launch, and deliver portfolio productivity project pipeline (value engineering, PPA, CMA, in/out-sourcing).
• Partner with BU CFO office and central FP&A teams to embed and maintain routine end-to-end productivity forecasting and reporting via monthly BU business cycles/routines.
• Lead productivity reporting/review routine with central (regional) stakeholder leadership team and functional teams (Procurement, Operations) to ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Maintain holistic visibility of in-year and future productivity pipeline at BU and Platform level.
• Proactively partner with central finance and growth office PMO to report on end-to-end portfolio performance.
• Co-lead AOP cycle to set and support productivity component of portfolio/category performance with BU CFO office, category finance teams, and portfolio GMs.
• As necessary, lead ad-hoc internal/external assessments to determine portfolio margin competitiveness.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Excel

PowerPoint

P&L understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, science, or engineering

MBA or master's in finance/operations (plus)

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Kraft Heinz is seeking an experienced Portfolio & Productivity Leader to drive an integrated BU-centric productivity agenda across the North America region. You will partner with cross-functional teams and act as the link between BU and functional stakeholders to deliver productivity programs and improve portfolio margins.

In this role you will lead planning cycles, maintain visibility of your productivity pipeline, and collaborate with finance teams to forecast and report on performance.