Associate Director, Global Procurement Finance - Business Cycle & Analytics

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Associate Director, Global Procurement Finance — Business Cycle & Analytics is accountable for leading the global financial business cycle and analytics agenda for the Procurement function, enabling data-driven decisions and performance transparency across zones and categories. This role partners closely with Global Procurement leadership, Risk Management, Zone Procurement Finance teams, FP&A, and Data/Analytics teams to drive standardization, automation, and insight generation that improves value delivery, decision quality, and execution rigor.

A primary responsibility of this position is to:

• Define, cascade, and oversee implementation of global Procurement Finance business cycle programs and strategic initiatives aligned with enterprise priorities
• Establish and deploy global methodologies, standards, and tools that simplify, unify, and automate procurement planning, forecasting, and performance routines
• Build a culture of analytical excellence by developing and deploying advanced analytics capabilities, actionable insights, and self-serve reporting

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Cycle Leadership (Plan/Forecast/Actuals): Lead the design and execution of global procurement finance routines that connect long-term strategy with annual planning, monthly forecasting, and performance tracking. Establish clear calendars, templates, assumptions governance, and ways of working to ensure alignment across global and zone teams.
• Performance Analysis & Decision Support: Deliver regular performance insights that connect procurement outcomes (e.g., savings, productivity, price/mix, compliance, working capital, risks/opportunities) with financial impact. Provide executive-ready analytics, variance analysis, scenario/sensitivity assessments, and clear recommendations to support resource allocation and trade-off decisions.
• Value Delivery Analytics & Reporting: Own the global analytics approach for procurement value delivery, including definitions, measurement standards, and reporting for savings/productivity pipelines and realized results. Drive visibility to gross savings vs. net impact, timing/phasing, and risks to delivery; enable action planning with procurement leaders.
• Process Standardization & Automation: Establish global standards for procurement finance analytics and business cycle processes, partnering with Digital/Data and Finance transformation teams to automate data flows, reduce manual reporting, and improve data quality and control.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinate with Global Procurement, Zone Procurement Finance, FP&A, Supply Chain Finance, and Data/BI teams to ensure analytics and routines meet stakeholder needs and enable consistent decision-making. Facilitate alignment on KPIs, definitions, and ownership across teams.
• Function Transformation & Capability Building: Build and execute a procurement finance analytics and business cycle roadmap (tools, data model, reporting suite, governance, training) that strengthens capability across the network and embeds continuous improvement and change management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required; MBA/Master’s preferred
• 10+ years of relevant finance experience; procurement finance, supply chain finance, FP&A, or transformation experience strongly preferred
• Strong analytical skills (financial modeling, scenario analysis, performance management) with ability to translate data into decisions and actions
• Demonstrated experience building standardized processes and routines across complex, multi-stakeholder/global environments
• Strong executive communication skills; able to synthesize complex topics into clear, decision-oriented messages
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI/Tableau) preferred
• Comfortable working under pressure and managing deadlines with a practical, ownership-oriented mindset

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