Buyer, Indirects - MRO Data Analyst

The Kraft Heinz Company•Chicago, IL

3d•$77,800 - $97,300•Hybrid

About The Position

The Buyer, Indirects - MRO Data Analyst develops and maintains spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, materials, and purchasing 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 dependable analysis and reporting. The position identifies savings opportunities through price variance, supplier consolidation, demand aggregation, tail-spend analysis, specification alignment, and sourcing opportunity sizing. It builds item-level pricing benchmarks; analyzes supplier price changes, inflation requests, freight, surcharges, and tariff claims; and examines inventory consumption, stock levels, turns, excess and obsolete materials, duplicate items, and standardization opportunities. The analyst partners with maintenance and plant stakeholders to validate material usage, criticality, substitution potential, and site requirements. The role supports supplier performance tracking and strategic sourcing events through scorecards, baselines, bid files, comparison models, scenario analyses, award recommendations, and implementation tracking. It monitors catalog utilization, preferred-supplier adoption, leakage spend, and off-contract purchasing, and helps build dashboards and automated reporting for spend, savings, inventory, supplier performance, and sourcing execution. The analyst documents savings calculations and initiatives, partners with Finance on validation, and improves processes, controls, and reporting to reduce manual work and improve repeatability. This position is based at Chicago/Aon Center in a normal office environment with moderate travel to customer locations, stores, and manufacturing facilities. Offices are open workspaces. Chicago/Aon Center employees may work virtually up to two days per week and are expected to work in person at their assigned location at least three days per workweek during defined core days.

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.
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, 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 for decision making.
Analyze inventory consumption trends, stock levels, inventory turns, excess and obsolete materials, duplicate items, and standardization opportunities.
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.
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.
Improve analytical processes, reporting cadence, data controls, and documentation to reduce manual work and increase repeatability.

Benefits

Performance-based bonus eligibility.
Healthcare coverage for employees and eligible dependents, including medical and prescription drug coverage.
Dental and vision coverage.
Paid time off and company holidays.
Leave of absence programs.
Flexible work arrangements.
Recognition and training.
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 events, resources, and learning opportunities.