Senior Manager, Procurement - Digital Enablement Strategy & Value

Kraft Heinz•Chicago, IL

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is responsible for helping modernize Source-to-Customer and Accounts Payable-connected processes through digital platforms, trusted data, automation, AI, portfolio discipline, governance, and value realization. The Senior Manager will create measurable enterprise value by ensuring Procurement’s digital modernization agenda is structured, funded, governed, prioritized, and connected to business outcomes. This role also provides Procurement-side governance and oversight over GBS/GPS-led, GBS/GPS-supported, AP-connected, or cross-functional process and system changes that may impact Procurement, Procurement controls, supplier experience, business user experience, data integrity, automation, AI enablement, reporting, service delivery, or enterprise compliance.

Requirements

Years of experience in Procurement, Source-to-Customer, procurement operations, procurement transformation, digital enablement, process governance, portfolio management, shared services governance, or global business services oversight.
Strong end-to-end Source-to-Customer and Accounts Payable-connected process knowledge, including sourcing, contracting, supplier onboarding, buying channels, purchase orders, approvals, receiving, invoicing, invoice exceptions, payment readiness, and controls.
Experience supporting digital transformation, automation, AI use case intake, platform modernization, process improvement, or technology-enabled operating model change.
Experience providing governance or oversight for shared services, GBS/GPS, AP, or cross-functional process and system changes, including impact assessment, stakeholder alignment, control review, documentation, approval routing, and implementation readiness.
Proven ability to track hard savings, cost avoidance, productivity, budget performance, business case value, benefit realization, or transformation impact.
Experience managing multi-year roadmaps, portfolio intake, prioritization, funding needs, executive reporting, governance cadence, and cross-functional decision forums.
Strong stakeholder management skills across Procurement, GBS/GPS, AP, Finance, IT, Data, Automation, Enterprise AI, Compliance, Internal Audit, and business teams.
Ability to support audit findings, corrective actions, control reviews, process documentation, root cause analysis, risk mitigation, and governance reporting.
Strong executive communication skills with the ability to simplify complex process, technology, value, budget, risk, and governance topics into clear recommendations.
Ability to challenge proposed process or system changes constructively when they may create control gaps, process fragmentation, supplier disruption, role ambiguity, compliance risk, or value leakage.

Responsibilities

Maintain the multi-year Procurement Digital Enablement strategy, roadmap, milestones, risks, dependencies, governance cadence, and execution priorities.
Translate Procurement business needs and process pain points into digital opportunities, automation use cases, AI pilots, process improvements, and measurable value cases.
Ensure digital modernization aligns with Source-to-Customer process ownership, AP-connected process performance, compliance, controls, user adoption, supplier experience, and enterprise priorities.
Manage intake and triage for Procurement technology, automation, reporting, AI, workflow, and process modernization requests.
Evaluate requests based on business value, feasibility, risk, control impact, data readiness, scalability, user impact, supplier impact, resource capacity, and funding needs.
Support proof-of-concept governance, pilot tracking, success criteria, scale/no-scale recommendations, and leadership decision materials.
Track value delivered through digital enablement, process modernization, automation, AI, data improvement, and portfolio execution.
Maintain benefit visibility across hard savings, cost avoidance, productivity, budget management, working capital impact, invoice exception reduction, process efficiency, compliance improvement, and risk reduction.
Partner with Finance and Procurement leadership to validate savings methodology, value assumptions, business cases, funding needs, and benefit realization.
Apply high Procurement acumen across Source-to-Customer and Accounts Payable-connected processes, including sourcing, contracting, supplier onboarding, PO compliance, approvals, receiving, invoicing, invoice exceptions, supplier payment readiness, and related controls.
Coordinate globally across regions, business units, enabling functions, GBS/GPS, AP, IT, Data, Automation, Enterprise AI, Compliance, Internal Audit, and service partners to promote consistency, transparency, and accountability.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision coverage
7% 401(k) matching
Business Resource Groups (BRGs)
Industry-leading total rewards package
High discretionary bonus
Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future
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
Paid Time Off
Company Holidays
Leave of Absence
Flexible Work Arrangements
Recognition
Training
Employee Assistance Program
Wellbeing Programs
Family Support Programs
Life
Accidental Death & Dismemberment
Disability