Job Description

About Us

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. Were a globally trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods for over 150 years. While Kraft Heinz is co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh, our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

We spark joy around mealtime with our iconic brands, including Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Heinz, Philadelphia, Lunchables, Velveeta, Planters, Maxwell House, Capri Sun, Ore-Ida, Kool-Aid, Jell-O, Primal Kitchen, and Classico, among others.

No matter the brand, were united under one vision: To sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally. Bringing this vision to life is our team of 39,000+ food lovers, creative thinkers, and high performers worldwide. Together, we help provide meals to those in need through our global partnership with Rise Against Hunger. We also stand committed to responsible, sustainable practices that extend to every facet of our business, our consumers, and our communities. Every day, were transforming the food industry with bold thinking and unprecedented results. If you share our passion and are ready to create the future, build a legacy, and lead as a global citizen theres only one thing to do: join our table and lets make life delicious!

Our Culture of Ownership, Meritocracy & Collaboration

We're not afraid to think differently. Embrace new ideas. Dream big. We empower our people at every level from entry-level intern to senior leader to own their work. We share a responsibility to think like Owners to be mindful of the collective and sustained success of Kraft Heinz which we apply to every situation, every day. As part of Kraft Heinz, you're supported to grow and achieve. Youre expected to bring your authentic self to work every day, to lead with humility, and drive outstanding performance at every level and youll be rewarded. Youre given opportunities to leave a mark and build a legacy. But you wont do it alone. Youre supported by passionate teammates along the way, and our collective, collaborative spirit fuels our incredible progress.

Job Description

Role

The Manager Network Design, Logistics - Transformation is a very exciting opportunity for an ambitious and driven individual to be a part of the journey and help influence Kraft Heinz in its transformation goals. The individual will work on a team to design best-in-class end-to-end supply chain strategies utilizing state of the art optimization tools for Kraft Heinz North America. This highly motivated individual will lead and support strategic decision-making by providing analysis and insights to the leadership team and identify critical projects to improve network performance and costs. This is a key role in driving supply chain business results. The individual will identify and act on inefficiencies and in building cross functional relationships with teams across the operations functions.

Primary Responsibilities

* Support & Lead design, execution and validation of Optimization Software (Llamasoft Supply Chain and Data Guru models) to deliver a pipeline of projects for the North American Operations team
* Support & Lead internal teams on daily & weekly basis to evaluate network studies and generate viable strategic projects for the business
* Work on a high visibility cross functional team, interacting on regular basis with various operations teams (Manufacturing, Transportation, Warehousing, Finance, Supply & Demand Planning as well as Business Development)
* Support weekly and monthly project status updates and strategic sessions with Leadership
* Serve as Center of Excellence for data sources, network knowledge and various associated tools
* Ability to identify data requirements, necessary supporting analyses and formulate strategies and solutions that yield value for project success
* Searching for and integrating new data (both internal and external) that improves visibility (and ultimately decisions)

Qualifications

* Bachelors Degree + 4 years of experience or Masters Degree + 3 years of experience
* Degree in Industrial Engineering / Manufacturing
* Full-time experience in the field of Supply chain planning /forecasting / inventory management
* 1+ years of experience directly leading a team of 3+ members
* Strong analytics & visualization experience with tools such as Tableau, Alteryx, SQL Server
* Highly motivated, self-starter that is well organized and needs minimal supervision
* Ability to learn quickly and apply technical skills in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing priorities
* Familiarity / Modelling experience with Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru & Data Guru preferred
* Python / R & VBA experience preferred
* Snowflake / Azure experience preferred

Location(s)

Chicago/Aon Center

Equal Opportunity Employerminorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity