Senior Manager, Procurement - Digital Enablement Strategy & Value

heinz; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraft Heinz is seeking a Senior Manager, Procurement - Digital Enablement Strategy & Value. You will modernize Source-to-Customer and Accounts Payable processes through digital platforms, trusted data, automation, and AI, ensuring measurable value and governance across procurement changes.

You will drive long-range strategy, align with enterprise priorities, manage intake for technology requests, and track benefits from digital initiatives, controls, and supplier experience improvements.

Qualifications

• Years of experience in Procurement and Source-to-Customer.
• Strong end-to-end Source-to-Customer and Accounts Payable knowledge.
• Experience with procurement transformation and digital enablement.
• Experience providing governance for shared services, GBS/GPS, AP, or cross-functional processes.
• Proven ability to track hard savings, cost avoidance, and benefit realization.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the multi-year Procurement Digital Enablement strategy, roadmap, milestones, risks, dependencies, governance cadence, and execution priorities.
• Translate procurement needs into digital opportunities, automation use cases, AI pilots, and measurable value.
• Ensure digital modernization aligns with Source-to-Customer and AP-connected processes, compliance, and user adoption.
• Manage intake and triage for procurement technology, automation, reporting, AI, and workflow requests.
• Evaluate requests based on value, feasibility, risk, data readiness, scalability, and funding needs.
• Support proof-of-concept governance, pilot tracking, success criteria, and leadership materials.
• Track value delivered through digital enablement, automation, and data improvement.
• Maintain visibility of benefits across hard savings, productivity, and compliance.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement leadership on savings methodology, business cases, funding, and realization.
• Coordinate globally with regions, GBS/GPS, AP, IT, Data, and Compliance to ensure consistency.

Job description

Job Description

This role is hybrid onsite in one of the following locations: Chicago, IL or Amsterdam, NL.

Here at Kraft Heinz, we grow our people to grow our business, because we believe that great people make great companies. When you join our table, you can expect access to an array of holistic wellness benefits* and perks, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 7% 401(k) matching, Business Resource Groups (BRGs) to help foster diversity, inclusion, and belonging for all employees, an industry-leading total rewards package that emphasizes a high discretionary bonus.

*Benefits begin immediately upon hire for salaried employees.

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Senior Manager, Procurement - Digital Enablement Strategy & Value at a glance

You will be responsible for helping modernize Source-to-Customer and Accounts Payable-connected processes through digital platforms, trusted data, automation, AI, portfolio discipline, governance, and value realization. You will create measurable enterprise value by ensuring Procurement's digital modernization agenda is structured, funded, governed, prioritized, and connected to business outcomes. This role also provides Procurement-side governance and oversight over GBS/GPS-led, GBS/GPS-supported, AP-connected, or cross-functional process and system changes that may impact Procurement, Procurement controls, supplier experience, business user experience, data integrity, automation, AI enablement, reporting, service delivery, or enterprise compliance.

What's on the menu?

• Maintain the multi-year Procurement Digital Enablement strategy, roadmap, milestones, risks, dependencies, governance cadence, and execution priorities.
• Translate Procurement business needs and process pain points into digital opportunities, automation use cases, AI pilots, process improvements, and measurable value cases.
• Ensure digital modernization aligns with Source-to-Customer process ownership, AP-connected process performance, compliance, controls, user adoption, supplier experience, and enterprise priorities.
• Manage intake and triage for Procurement technology, automation, reporting, AI, workflow, and process modernization requests.
• Evaluate requests based on business value, feasibility, risk, control impact, data readiness, scalability, user impact, supplier impact, resource capacity, and funding needs.
• Support proof-of-concept governance, pilot tracking, success criteria, scale/no-scale recommendations, and leadership decision materials.
• Track value delivered through digital enablement, process modernization, automation, AI, data improvement, and portfolio execution.
• Maintain benefit visibility across hard savings, cost avoidance, productivity, budget management, working capital impact, invoice exception reduction, process efficiency, compliance improvement, and risk reduction.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement leadership to validate savings methodology, value assumptions, business cases, funding needs, and benefit realization.
• Apply high Procurement acumen across Source-to-Customer and Accounts Payable-connected processes, including sourcing, contracting, supplier onboarding, PO compliance, approvals, receiving, invoicing, invoice exceptions, supplier payment readiness, and related controls.
• Coordinate globally across regions, business units, enabling functions, GBS/GPS, AP, IT, Data, Automation, Enterprise AI, Compliance, Internal Audit, and service partners to promote consistency, transparency, and accountability.

Recipe for Success

• I have years of experience in Procurement, Source-to-Customer, procurement operations, procurement transformation, digital enablement, process governance, portfolio management, shared services governance, or global business services oversight.
• I have strong end-to-end Source-to- Customer and Accounts Payable-connected process knowledge, including sourcing, contracting, supplier onboarding, buying channels, purchase orders, approvals, receiving, invoicing, invoice exceptions, payment readiness, and controls.
• I have experience supporting digital transformation, automation, AI use case intake, platform modernization, process improvement, or technology-enabled operating model change.
• I have experience providing governance or oversight for shared services, GBS/GPS, AP, or cross-functional process and system changes, including impact assessment, stakeholder alignment, control review, documentation, approval routing, and implementation readiness.
• I have a proven ability to track hard savings, cost avoidance, productivity, budget performance, business case value, benefit realization, or transformation impact.
• I have experience managing multi-year roadmaps, portfolio intake, prioritization, funding needs, executive reporting, governance cadence, and cross-functional decision forums.
• I have strong stakeholder management skills across Procurement, GBS/GP