Manager, Supply Chain and Procurement Finance

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## Job Description **Manager, Global Supply Chain and Procurement Finance at a glance ...** The Manager, Global Supply Chain and Procurement Finance is accountable for leading the financial business cycle, analytics, and value creation agenda across the Global Procurement and Global Supply Chain functions. The role serves as a strategic finance partner and analytics center of excellence for both functions — driving data-driven decisions, performance transparency, and measurable value delivery (e.g., margin expansion, pricing and mix, productivity, and cost-to-serve improvement). This role partners closely with Global Procurement and Global Supply Chain leadership, Risk Management, Commercial, Marketing, Sales, FP&A, and Data/Analytics teams to identify value opportunities, quantify impact through rigorous analysis, track delivery against internal and external benchmarks, and translate insights into clear actions and trade-offs for senior leaders. The role also champions the adoption of AI-powered analytics tools to accelerate insight generation, improve forecasting accuracy, and enable self-serve visibility across the organization. A primary responsibility of this position is to: - Define, cascade, and oversee implementation of global business cycle programs, value creation routines, and strategic initiatives aligned with enterprise and functional priorities, ensuring a clear line of sight from strategic ambition to executable plans - Establish and deploy global methodologies, standards, and tools — including AI-enabled analytics capabilities — that simplify, unify, and automate planning, forecasting, value tracking, and performance routines across Global Supply Chain and Procurement - Foster a culture of analytical and execution excellence by building strong business cases, deploying rigorous benchmarking (internal and external), leveraging AI tools for advanced analytics and forecasting, and establishing decision frameworks and accountability mechanisms that convert insight into tangible, measurable value **Key Ingredients:** - Business Cycle & Value Strategy: Lead the design and execution of global business cycle routines (Plan/Forecast/Actuals) that connect long-term strategy with annual planning, monthly forecasting, and performance tracking across Global Supply Chain and Procurement. Simultaneously, translate enterprise and functional priorities into a clear roadmap, including opportunity sizing informed by internal performance data and external benchmarks, initiative prioritization, and multi-year phasing. Leverage analytical frameworks to identify white-space opportunities and sharpen the ambition level. Establish clear calendars, templates, assumptions governance, and ways of working to ensure alignment across global and region teams. - Performance Analysis & Executive Decision Support: Deliver ongoing performance insights that connect P&L and operational drivers to value delivery across both functions — covering procurement outcomes (savings, productivity, price/mix, compliance, working capital) and supply chain outcomes (inventory, service levels, cost-to-serve). Enrich analysis with internal trending, cross-region benchmarking, and external peer comparisons. Leverage advanced analytics tools to detect patterns, surface anomalies, and accelerate insight generation. Provide executive-ready reporting on progress vs. targets, risks and opportunities, and corrective actions required; translate signals and benchmark gaps into strategic implications for senior leadership. - Cross-Functional Coordination & Accountability: Act as a strategic connector across Global Procurement, Global Supply Chain, Region Finance teams, FP&A, and Data/BI teams. Remove ambiguity on owners, milestones, and interdependencies; ensure initiatives are translated into clear actions and embedded in operating rhythms. Facilitate alignment on KPIs, definitions, and strategic priorities, and proactively surface cross-functional risks and opportunities to senior leadership. Facilitate alignment on KPIs, definitions, strategic priorities, and ownership across teams. - Process Standardization, Automation: Establish global standards for finance analytics and business cycle processes across Global Supply Chain and Procurement, partnering with Digital/Data and Finance transformation teams to automate data flows and reduce manual reporting. Actively identify and pilot AI tools that improve data quality, analytical depth, and speed of insight. Deploy self-serve dashboards and benchmarking tools, and build a suite of shared analytical assets (models, scorecards, benchmarking databases) as infrastructure for the Global Supply Chain and Procurement Finance community. - Capability Building & Transformation: Build and execute a Global Supply Chain and Procurement Finance analytics and business cycle roadmap (tools, data model, AI capabilities, reporting suite, governance, training) that strengthens capability across the network. Conduct structured benchmarking of internal and external best practices, identify capability gaps, and scale effective approaches across teams and regions. **Recipe for Success: Apply if this sounds like you!** - Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required; MBA/Master’s preferred - 7–10 years of relevant finance experience; FP&A, commercial finance, supply chain or procurement finance, or value delivery roles strongly preferred; demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic finance business partner to senior functional leadership across multiple functions - Strong financial modeling and analytical skills; ability to convert data into decisions and actions, including business case development, scenario analysis, investment sizing, and structured benchmarking. Familiarity with AI and machine learning tools for analytics (e.g., forecasting models, anomaly detection, generative AI for insight drafting) strongly preferred - Demonstrated experience influencing cross-functional leaders and driving accountability without direct authority in complex, multi-stakeholder environments - Strong executive presence and communication skills; able to synthesize complex topics into clear, decision-oriented narratives (executive storytelling in PowerPoint; clarity and precision in financial messaging) and serve as a credible thought partner to senior functional leaders - Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and BI/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) required; hands-on experience with AI tools for analytics and visibility (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT/Claude for analysis, Python/R for data modeling) preferred; exposure to benchmarking databases (e.g., Hackett, Gartner) a plus - Comfortable working under pressure and managing deadlines with a practical, ownership-oriented mindset ## Location(s) Amsterdam **Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes****.**