Sr. Buyer, External Manufacturing

Job Purpose

As a Senior Buyer for External Manufacturing, you will be a member of Kraft Heinz's North American Zone's (U.S. and Canada) Procurement team and play a role in identifying external manufacturers supporting critical categories for the business. You will deliver value to the organization by facilitating the strategic sourcing process, establishing and managing relationships with our external manufacturers and suppliers, and developing the strategy for the category management. You will help us live our value of Daring to Do Better Every Day by delivering efficiency and cash flow targets that are focused on our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). You will work and collaborate closely with several cross-functional areas.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Strategic Sourcing: Most of your focus will be on facilitating the strategic sourcing process for the category and related subcategories. As a Sr. Buyer, you are expected to develop a detailed understanding of the market and the conditions affecting cost and product availability through market and industry analysis, supplier research and review, and category and supplier segmentation. You will lead sourcing events, analysis, negotiations, contracting, and implementation.

• Category Strategy: To ensure the most effective supply base design, you will develop the category strategy and ongoing category management resulting from sourcing activities. You will collaborate with risk management to understand product pricing movements and develop mitigation and optimization strategies to support them.

• Category Management: The scope of this position includes category financial planning and budget setting related to respective spending areas. You will need to solve problems related to unexpected supply, new product development, and project timeline challenges to support the business.

• Project Management: The role will deliver specific efficiency and cash flow targets in relation to their categories in alignment with overarching goals and objectives for the NA Procurement organization, focusing on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This position is linked closely with several cross-functional areas from an overall project management perspective and strategy execution.

Expected Experience & Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain or operations management, finance, or related field. Candidates with equivalent related experience will be considered instead of a degree.

• Possess at least 3 years of proven experience in procurement, purchasing, strategic sourcing, or a related field. Prior experience in external manufacturing or direct procurement (e.g., Ingredients, Packaging, etc.) is highly desirable.

• Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills and interpersonal and presentation skills.

• Ability to understand, organize, and communicate sophisticated information in an easily understandable format tailored to various audiences.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, support requests from, and cooperate directly across all levels of the organization.

• We "own" it at KHC and success requires an individual who is results-oriented, self-motivated, proactive, independent, and adaptable.

• Have strong analytical, planning, and execution skills, including outstanding attention to detail.

• Possess a strategic demeanor; can effectively articulate various perspectives and impacts of issues and understand the future impact to the business. Able to see all sides and the inherent value to partners.

• Able to effectively negotiate and influence business decisions and change.

• Able to multitask and balance projects at varying levels of complexity.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and have an understanding for source-to-pay tools (SAP, Ariba, etc.).

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 or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact .