Associate Director, Supply Chain Development - Hydration

The Kraft Heinz Company • Chicago, IL

13d • $164,200 - $205,200 • Onsite

About The Position

Kraft Heinz is a global food company with a delicious heritage. With iconic and emerging food and beverage brands around the world, we deliver the best taste, fun and quality to every meal table we touch. We’re on a mission to disrupt not only our own business, but the global food industry. A consumer obsession and unexpected partnerships fuel our progress as we drive innovation across every part of our company. Around the world, our people are connected by a culture of ownership, agility and endless curiosity. We also believe in being good humans, who are working to improve our company, communities, and planet. We’re proud of where we’ve been – and even more thrilled about where we’re headed – as we nourish the world and lead the future of food. We grow our people to grow our business. We champion great people who bring ambition, curiosity, and high performance to the table as the guardians of our beloved and nostalgic brands. Good isn't good enough. We choose greatness every day by challenging the ordinary and making bold decisions. All while celebrating our wins - and our failures – as we work together to lead the future of food. Challenging the status quo takes talent. We invest in your purpose and potential by developing skills and nurturing strengths that leave a legacy on our business and a lasting impact on your career. Because great people make great companies, and we’re growing something great here at Kraft Heinz. Everyone is welcome at our table. In fact, we thrive on learning and growing from our diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, or who makes your heart sing. We want you to show up as your authentic self, excited to work with amazing colleagues to solve complex challenges and innovate in an ever-changing industry. We’re committed to: Hiring and growing talent from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Growing our Business Resource Groups — vibrant, celebrated communities that enhance our business through thought leadership employee engagement and professional development opportunities. Providing our managers and leaders high quality learning experiences to explore how to foster inclusion and belonging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Food Science, Chemistry, or other related field
• Minimum of 10 years combined experience in manufacturing, supply chain, engineering or HQ business team experience.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Project Management for Consumer Products
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Basic Marketing/Finance Principles
• Minimum 3 years’ of Plant Manufacturing experience

Responsibilities

• Lead commercialization effort for scoping new business opportunities across the Hydration Platform in the HDM business unit.
• Ensure effective team engagement with the manufacturing location, R&D, supply planning, and engineering.
• Ability to scope and execute large capital investments to either enable Innovation or drive bottom line savings across the KSB team with annual budget greater than $40 Million.
• Ability to execute Innovation projects to enable top line growth for HDM of over $100 Million.
• Ensure appropriate capacity for new business initiatives and growth plans across product life cycle.
• Develop and recommend alternatives as needed.
• Provide updates to project sponsors and stakeholders as needed on key initiatives, including progress against deliverables, cost management, next steps and needs from sponsors to alleviate hurdles.
• Escalate concerns and issues, report project fact base, define options/trade-offs, and provide team recommendation.
• Lead internal feasibility assessment and business case to support business team’s scoping requests; Identify impact across the supply chain with regard to cost of goods sold e.g. route to market, capacity utilization, DIOH, manufacturing efficiency, quality, safety.
• Help develop and assess assigned financial targets, to include the delivery of capital requirements, trial activity and start-up expenses.
• Drive development of preliminary COGS, ensure alignment between category team and operations.
• Engage and support productivity related scoping projects to deliver cost reduction targets.
• Partner with External Manufacturing managers and EM procurement to deliver against scoping activities outside of current Kraft Heinz capabilities.
• Support Business and Manufacturing Systems initiatives as required, and support the continuous improvement of the commercialization process through collaboration with key stakeholders and best practice sharing.
• Execute major manufacturing cost improvement initiatives through cross functional collaboration and updates to senior leaders via KHBM.
• Lead and/or participation in various stakeholder governance forums (i.e. Stage gate/Leadership teams)
• Partner with the Business Units/ Manufacturing/ Supply Chain/ Engineering to develop a 3 year strategic capacity plan.
• Create innovative solutions to address GAPs/ Constraints.
• Provide indirect leadership for the PCM organization and Plant commercialization leads.
• Work hand in hand with Supply Chain Losses team to get ahead of potential losses and help drive risk mitigation once it is identified through 30-90 day risk report and 90-180 reports by leveraging cross functional team (Sales/Marketing) to find alternate uses for the product.
• Give direction to the Productivity team, specifically for Manufacturing year over year project savings.

Benefits

• Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs.
• Events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.
• Physical - Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
• Social - Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
• Emotional – Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
• Financial – 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director