Group Lead Supply Chain Development

General information

All posting locations: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Job Function: 06 - Manufacturing

Date Published: 22-Apr-2024

Ref #: R-81750

Description & Requirements

Primary responsibilities will be:

• Lead technical and supply chain readiness to support commercialization activity by applying tools that prepare the supply chain and manufacturing facilities for successful start- ups.

• Optimize growth, capacity, supply continuity and cost out initiatives (including manufacturing asset optimization)

• Provide updates to leadership, platform leads, project team and vendors as needed on key initiatives, including progress against goals, cost management, next steps and needs from sponsors to alleviate roadblocks.

• Be the liaison between the business team and the co-manufacturer.

• Support business and manufacturing systems initiatives as needed.

• Lead continuous improvement of the commercialization process through collaboration with key partners and best practice sharing.

• Manage and develop growth and innovation pipeline requests, in partnership with marketing and sales, to ensure the proper financial and capability hurdles are accurately met.

• Pilot the manufacturing element of commercialization as it relates to NPDs and cost out changes, while providing cross functional support to the agile pods and platform teams.

• Be the conduit between the 3rd party vendors and KHC driving NPDs at a co-manufacturing site.

• Provide input and solutions in commercialization meetings as they relate to manufacturing solutions.

• Support the Supply Chain Commercialization team during project prioritization to align on MOQs for materials and production to mitigate Supply Chain Losses.

• Partner with EM Quality and to ensure that any NPDs targeted are compliant.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 8+ years of related experience in manufacturing, business development or HQ business team experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Operations Management, Food Science, Chemistry, or other related fields

• Possess experience working in a consumer food company; startup experience preferred.

• Minimum 2 years in Plant Manufacturing preferred

• Experience with basic Marketing/Finance principles

• Eager to build new procedures and processes from scratch.

• Proven problem solving skills with a proactive mentality.

• Strong negotiation, presentation, communication (written/verbal) and relationship building skills.

• Abilty to translate business expectations into supply chain solutions.

• Possess strong planning, project management, and execution skills.

• Experience working cross functionally in a matrixed environment, both regionally and globally.

• Be agile, adaptable, flexible and thrive in a multifaceted and changing culture environment.

• Possess strong digital literacy including a high level of proficiency in MS Office, specifically Excel, amongst others.

• Ability to travel at least 50% of the time.