Senior Manager, Global Indirect Category Management
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Global Indirect Category Management will help shape the future of Pizza Hut by leading the transformation of its global indirect procurement strategy across Digital & Technology, Marketing, Aggregators, and Professional Services. The role is a strategic advisor to senior leadership and supports enterprise value creation, innovation, supplier partnerships, and digital enablement across a global franchise ecosystem. The position manages strategic supplier ecosystems and partners with global and regional business leaders to align category strategies with business priorities. It also supports franchisee alignment and participation in sourcing events, advances specification harmonization, manages category risks, and embeds sustainability and long-term ESG goals into category and sourcing strategies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in supply chain roles, ideally within the food industry or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in global or regional strategic category management or procurement.
- Strong experience in indirect categories, including enterprise SaaS/cloud agreements, digital platforms, and MarTech ecosystems, with understanding of data, privacy, and compliance considerations.
- Experience leading procurement transformation initiatives.
- Ability to influence executive stakeholders globally.
- Experience managing strategic supplier relationships at executive level.
- Strategic thinking and commercial acumen.
- Excellent communication and partnership skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal and external partners across the business.
- Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills, and ability to gain buy-in and influence stakeholders at all levels in a global organization.
- High level of intellectual curiosity.
- Strong analytical skills and experience using spend analytics, procurement technologies, and data-driven decision-making tools.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Global Indirect Category and align procurement strategies with regional and global leadership and business priorities across areas including Digital & Technology, Professional Services, Marketing, and Aggregators.
- Manage strategic supplier ecosystems across enterprise technology, digital commerce, customer engagement, marketing technology, consulting, and growth platforms.
- Partner with global and regional functional leads to ensure category strategies meet broader business needs.
- Lead key negotiations and supplier partnerships to deliver value creation; establish strategic partnerships and develop business cases for long-term investments and innovation.
- Manage category risks and ensure mitigation and business continuity plans are in place to avoid disruption.
- Support franchise relationships by ensuring franchisees understand and align with regional and global sourcing events and encouraging maximum participation.
- Drive specification harmonization and optimization in collaboration with regional brand teams.
- Champion supply-chain sustainability initiatives that reduce environmental impact and support Pizza Hut’s Good Growth commitment; embed long-term ESG goals into category and sourcing strategies.
- Build collaborative relationships with regional functional leaders, regional leadership teams, Supply Chain teams, and external partners and consultants.
- Partner with regional functional leaders, including Finance, Legal, Digital, and Marketing, to identify opportunities to maximize volume leverage and procurement expertise and deliver increased value to Pizza Hut.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
