Strategic MRO & Indirects Analytics Buyer

The Kraft Heinz Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 78,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Health benefits

401(k)

Job summary

The Kraft Heinz Company in Chicago is seeking an analytics-focused professional to own spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, and buying channels. You will clean and reconcile large data sets, build pricing benchmarks, and analyze supplier price changes to enable strategic decisions.

You will partner with maintenance and plant stakeholders, develop supplier scorecards, and support strategic sourcing events using Ariba or similar tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related discipline.
• 3+ years of analytics, procurement, supply chain, or related experience.
• Advanced Excel with data modeling, Power Query, and analysis techniques.
• Experience handling large, imperfect datasets and reconciling information from multiple sources.
• Ability to simplify complex data to support decisions.

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, and sizing opportunities.
• Build item-level pricing benchmarks using quotations, catalogs, and market data.
• Analyze supplier price changes, inflation requests, freight, surcharges, and tariff claims to enable decision making.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Data cleaning

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Big data analysis

Education

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

Tools

SAP

Ariba

Power BI

SQL

Python

Alteryx

Job description

The Kraft Heinz Company in Chicago is seeking an analytics-focused professional to own spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, and buying channels. You will clean and reconcile large data sets, build pricing benchmarks, and analyze supplier price changes to enable strategic decisions.

You will partner with maintenance and plant stakeholders, develop supplier scorecards, and support strategic sourcing events using Ariba or similar tools.