(based in Ahmedabad)
Position Summary
As an Assistant Manager for Procurement Intelligence function, you contribute to Kraft Heinz's strategic ambition in shaping procurement-wide cost modelling strategy, providing critical insights to support executive decision-making, and driving financial efficiency. You will provide structure, support, and guidance to the Procurement team to ensure a comprehensive approach is used when there is a need to build our understanding of the market, competitors and the importance of trends for all categories. You'll understand our business objectives and strategically research relevant data to help us improve category strategies & approaches to competitive sourcing. You will design summary extract reports and analytics in collaboration with our procurement teams to embed this external knowledge that your team provides into the best-informed decisions.
Primary Responsibilities
- Framework and governance building include defining scope, stakeholder alignment, database evaluation and roadmap of market intelligence
- Drive the deployment of market intelligence capabilities, overseeing projects and advocating for the adoption and utilization of digital tools and platforms to guide decision-making
- Develop and implement a comprehensive procurement market intelligence and insight strategy, optimizing data sources, intelligence library, and data connections across the enterprise
- Identify current and future needs for market intelligence and insight gathering capabilities, ensuring procurement functional partners are equipped with the necessary tools and platforms for data-driven decision making.
- Provide Procurement Analytics and Market Intelligence lead and functional partners with ad hoc insights and analytical deliverables that can be shared with Procurement senior leadership to inform strategy.
- Create strategic business cases and action items based on collected data.
- Ensure effective and timely delivery of project work, raising issues and risks in a timely manner to requestors to ensure appropriate actions can be taken to mitigate.
- Conduct in-depth market research, analysis and share insights
- Gather detailed data research requirements and collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver high quality results
- Perform quantitative and qualitative research into consumers, competitors, and the marketplace
- Conduct market scans and connect with external experts to benchmark against other industry solutions.
- Leverage industry memberships and associations to develop comprehensive analysis of commodities and categories
Communication
- Communicate effectively verbally and in writing by adopting appropriate communication style to individuals at all levels of the organization and remaining open to disagreement or new ideas.
Skills
- Excellent communication and data presentation skills. Professional fluency in English
- Stakeholder management across multiple functions and zones
- Strong analytical and planning skills for process implementation
- Knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
- Basic knowledge of analytical tools (Power BI)
- Displays high levels of energy and commitment; is relentless in the pursuit of goals in an environment of complexity, diversity, and ambiguity; eagerness to learn
Experience
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, supply chain or any related functions or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 10+ years of working experience in a global company doing market intelligence research and analytics
- Proven knowledge of market research strategies and venues with demonstrated success predicting market trends and strategically connecting information
- Progressive experience and leadership in data, research or market intelligence role gathering insights and building an effective product suite.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with demonstrated resourcefulness in accessing and gathering research/industry insights with an exceptional technical acumen.
- Knowledge of procurement processes including the development of category/sourcing strategies, supplier performance management, contract management, risk management, and business partner engagement, is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical, planning, and stakeholder management skills.
- Multi Project management skills including Time management being organized, structured and always having an overview of all deliverables. Knowing how to bring multiple projects to a successful ending within the given timeframe.
- Ability to influence and coach without direct accountability, supporting Procurement teams to achieve results, and possess excellent relationship management and communication skills.
- Team Player with a positive attitude and ability to work across different business stakeholder and teams to accomplish complex tasks
- Displays high levels of energy and commitment; is relentless in the pursuit of goals in an environment of complexity, diversity, and ambiguity.
- Self-Starter, driven with high business process acumen
