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Sr. Manager- Procurement - Global Travel - Chicago Illinois
Company: Kraft-Heinz Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posted On: 05/05/2024
General information All posting locations: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Job Function: 02 - Procurement Date Published: 12-Mar-2024 Ref #: R-80307 Description & Requirements Job Purpose The Senior Manager for Travel Services will be responsible for planning and sourcing activities within the travel subcategories, handling a meaningful budget across the entire enterprise and collaborating with various suppliers. Design and craft the Global Travel Category, engaging with regional procurement, delivering global strategies and initiatives, and ensuring their execution in the corresponding zones. This role will drive a global compliance and governance program, perform benchmarking, market intelligence, and facilitate the sharing of best practices across zones, while harmonizing and standardizing procurement processes, striving for efficiency and global/regional simplification and deliver agreements that contribute across zones. Essential Functions & Responsibilities - Use procurement processes, tools, and systems, being responsible for lifecycle management, and demonstrating expertise in category planning, development, and execution.
- Maintain relationships with strategic suppliers, acting as the global critical issue point and supervising executive-level client and senior supplier relationships.
- Lead global sophisticated sourcing activities across Corporate Travel Agencies, Hotels, Airlines, and technology services.
- Lead global programs on suppliers' development, innovation, and market trends.
- Identify zone business needs in Assurance of Travel needs and demand
- Build strong relationships with key partners (including frequent travelers)
- Identify and evaluate potential value-generating global projects.
- Implement sophisticated global contracts and maintain a strong understanding of category dynamics.
- Lead Total Cost of Ownership at the category level and enable continuous process improvement and cost reduction.
- Apply robust strategic sourcing processes to all projects.
- Challenge the status quo positively and influence change.
- Handle and develop internal and third-party administrator team resources.
- Drive global collaboration to the global strategy whilst continue to default to the Zone Procurement teams on zone execution and partner management.
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