Procurement Specialist

Kraft Heinz is looking for Procurement Specialist that will support procurement operations activities by coordinating with suppliers and cross-functional teams, monitoring process execution, and ensuring smooth follow-up on shipments, documents, supplier performance, and compliance trackers. The position also contributes to process improvement, operational reporting, and daily alignment across procurement, logistics, finance, and planning stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Support critical procurement and supply cases and ensure timely follow-up until resolution
• Monitor procurement operations processes, identify gaps, and support process improvement initiatives
• Follow up on imported shipments and ensure all required documents are shared with the logistics team on time
• Coordinate communication between logistics teams and foreign suppliers to ensure smooth shipment and documentation flow
• Share logistics comments and required document updates with suppliers and ensure timely corrective action
• Review updated supplier documents and coordinate submission and confirmation with the logistics team
• Follow up with suppliers on demurrage charges and support discussions to recover or refund related costs
• Align production trials with cross-functional teams and follow up with stakeholders to collect technical reports, then share the required updates with suppliers
• Monitor material risk and contract compliance trackers and ensure timely follow-up on open points
• Handle the supplier performance evaluation application, share evaluation scores with buyers, and follow up with suppliers on CAPA closure
• Monitor supplier performance and ways of working to support on-time delivery, quality issue resolution, and smoother payment processes
• Support the finance team on day-to-day activities related to supplier invoices and payments
• Participate in daily and weekly cross-functional meetings related to operations, commercial updates, material risk, procurement, and finance
• Support stronger coordination across procurement, logistics, finance, and supply planning stakeholders
• Lead on the Compliance committee by monitoring all procurement compliance KPIs and presenting it quarterly to the LT
• Monitor contract compliance and ensure proper tracking of contracts is in place
• Responsible for spend analysis report and ensuring it is shared monthly with the team
• Responsible for all procurement function reporting
• Covering R&P and imported indirect procurement categories.

Location(s)

6 October Factory

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes .