Associate Director, Supply Chain Development - Hydration

Job Description

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.

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

Our Total Rewards philosophy is to provide a meaningful and flexible spectrum of programs that equitably support our diverse workforce and their families and complement Kraft Heinz’ strategy and values.

New Hire Base Salary Range:

$164,200.00 - $205,200.00

Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.

The compensation offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors

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. Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Wellbeing: We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.

You’ll be able to participate in a variety of benefits and wellbeing programs that may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors, for example:

• 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

Location(s)

Chicago/Aon Center

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact [email protected] for assistance.