Buyer, Indirects - MRO Data Analyst

Kraft Heinz • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Buyer, Indirects - MRO Data Analyst develops and maintains spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, materials, and buying channels, including SAP and Ariba catalog and non-catalog purchasing. The role cleans, enriches, classifies, and reconciles purchasing, invoice, catalog, contract, inventory, and material master data to create reliable insights for category strategy and manufacturing operations.

The analyst identifies savings opportunities, builds item-level pricing benchmarks, analyzes supplier price changes and cost claims, and evaluates inventory consumption, stock levels, excess materials, duplicate items, and standardization opportunities. In partnership with plant and maintenance stakeholders, the role validates material use, criticality, substitution potential, and local requirements. It also supports sourcing events, supplier performance management, catalog adoption, savings validation, and the development of dashboards and repeatable reporting processes.

This is an office-based role in a normal office environment, with moderate travel to customer locations, stores, and manufacturing facilities. Chicago/Aon Center-based employees may work virtually up to two days each week and are expected to work in person at their assigned location at least three days per workweek on defined core days. The role is eligible for a performance-based bonus. The new-hire base salary range is $77,800–$97,300.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of experience in analytics, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, operations, or a related field.
• Advanced Excel capability, including data modeling, Power Query, fuzzy logic, pivot tables, scenario analysis, and structured analytical methods.
• Experience working with large, imperfect datasets and reconciling information across multiple sources.
• Ability to simplify complex data to enable decision making.
• Strong problem-solving, project management, communication, and stakeholder-partnership skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting MRO, manufacturing, maintenance, engineering, industrial distribution, or indirect procurement.
• Experience with SAP, Ariba, Power BI, SQL, Python, Alteryx, or comparable analytics platforms.
• Understanding of sourcing, contracting, supplier management, inventory optimization, material master data, and procurement savings methodologies.
• Experience developing automated dashboards, repeatable data pipelines, and executive-level performance reporting.
• Data-driven decision making and intellectual curiosity.
• Ownership, accountability, and disciplined follow-through.
• Business partnership and influence without authority.
• Continuous improvement and simplification mindset.
• Strategic thinking with strong attention to detail.
• Results orientation and ability to manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, materials, and buying channels, including SAP and Ariba catalog and non-catalog purchasing.
• Clean, enrich, classify, and reconcile purchasing data, supplier invoices, catalog and contract data, inventory data, and material master data.
• Identify savings opportunities through price variance analysis, supplier consolidation, demand aggregation, tail-spend analysis, specification alignment, and sourcing opportunity sizing.
• Build item-level pricing benchmarks using supplier quotations, distributor catalogs, transaction history, RFP data, and market information.
• Analyze supplier price changes, inflation requests, freight, surcharges, and tariff claims; document assumptions and simplify complex data to support decisions.
• Analyze inventory consumption trends, stock levels, inventory turns, excess and obsolete materials, duplicate items, and standardization opportunities to support working-capital improvement.
• Partner with maintenance and plant stakeholders to validate material usage, criticality, substitution potential, and site-specific requirements.
• Develop supplier scorecards and track cost, quality, service, delivery, continuity, and contract-performance metrics.
• Support strategic sourcing events by preparing baselines, supplier bid files, bid-comparison models, scenario analyses, award recommendations, and implementation tracking in Ariba sourcing or other available tools.
• Monitor catalog utilization, preferred-supplier adoption, leakage spend, and off-contract purchasing; identify corrective actions and measure results.
• Help create and enhance dashboards and automated reporting for supplier spend, project pipeline, savings, inventory, supplier performance, and sourcing execution.
• Establish transparent savings calculations, maintain initiative-level documentation, and partner with Finance for validation.
• Continuously improve analytical processes, reporting cadence, data controls, and documentation to reduce manual work and increase repeatability.

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus, subject to plan terms and governing documents.
• Healthcare coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
• Medical and prescription drug benefits.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Company holidays.
• Leave of absence.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Recognition, training, and learning opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellbeing programs and family support programs.
• 401(k).
• Life insurance.
• Accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
• Disability coverage.
• Physical, social, emotional, and financial wellbeing resources and programs.

What This Job Offers

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