Senior Manager External Manufacturing – Meals and Local Brands EU

Job Description About the position We have an excellent opportunity available for an experienced Procurement Senior Manager to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The Sr Mgr External Manufacturing – Meals and Local Brands EU lies within the European Procurement Team. You’ll be working in a high performing team, alongside peers always trying to reach the next level. You’ll be reporting into Director – EM & Procurement Operations EU. Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders. In brief, you are responsible for: · Portfolio Ownership: Lead and optimize a portfolio of external manufacturing partners across Europe, ensuring strong supply performance, service continuity, and continuous improvement. · Team Leadership: Manage and develop the external manufacturing team for the assigned portfolio, including direct people leadership, capability building, and performance management. · Strategic Sourcing: Develop, champion, and execute procurement and external manufacturing strategies that support business growth, innovation, value delivery, and long-term network resilience. · Contract Negotiation: Lead critical contract negotiations, including outsourcing evaluations, commercial terms, service expectations, and long-term partnership agreements. · Risk Management: Identify and mitigate quality, technical, business, and quality risks, implementing corrective and preventive actions to protect continuity of supply. · Financial Planning: Responsible for financial planning and cost management for assigned categories and spend areas, supporting topline growth, productivity, and innovation. · Process Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in external supply management, governance routines, and operating structure to maximize results in cost, quality, and service. · Stakeholder Engagement: Lead and influence senior stakeholders across Supply Chain, Operations, R&D, Marketing, Growth, Quality, and Procurement to deliver business objectives and enable growth. Qualifications Please kindly note that you need to have an EU Working Permit (Orientation Year Visa not included) in order to proceed for this position. · Educational Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering or related fields. Additional competencies in Business Administration or Supply Chain are a plus. · Years of Work Experience: 9+ years of progressive growing experience in procurement, ideally with experience in FMCG, external manufacturing, direct procurement sourcing, or outsourced manufacturing environments. People leadership experience is highly valued. · IT Skills & Knowledge: Strong understanding of Excel and presentation development; familiarity with procurement systems (Ariba, SAP), financial planning, and data analytics is a must. · Soft Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, analytical mindset, organizational agility, priority setting, stakeholder management, commercial sense, resilience, and strong leadership capability. Professional Attributes · Communication Skills - People are easily be exposed to senior management, no matter their level. Therefore, it’s important to have excellent interpersonal skills, to take care of all kinds of different collaborators. · Confident / Ability to give pushback - We like people who are go getters and are not easily thrown off their game, not even when getting resistance. · Resilience - Having the ability to bounce back after a disappointment or set back, big or small is what we value. Always continue to move onward & upward. · Commercial Sense - Always seeking for opportunities to expand your business and build more savings, while over delivering your targets. · Analytical - We’re a very data driven company, making it crucial to be able to translate complex data into a simple solution with an analytical approach. What we offer you · An ambitious employer; we only want the best for you. · A fast career track like only few other companies can match. · A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market); at KraftHeinz we strongly believe and live by ownership and meritocracy. · A hybrid working model; because we believe the future of work is based on a building modern, adaptable, and agile workplace culture. 3 days from our office in Amsterdam and 2 days from home with additional 20 days per year to work from anywhere you want! · Additional benefits such as Commuting Allowance, Hybrid Work Allowance & Reimbursements, Bicycle & Gym Discount Plan, Employee Assistance Program and Supplemental Health Insurance. · A wide range of discounts with KraftHeinz’s partnerships on fashion, electronics, travels and many more! · Last and not least; there are always room for new insights: If you have an idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action! Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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 .