Senior Manager External Manufacturing– Meals and Local …, Amsterdam

About the Position We have an excellent opportunity available for an experienced Procurement Senior Manager to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The Sr Mgr External Manufacturing– Meals and Local Brands EU lies within the European Procurement Team. You’ll be working in a high performing team, alongside peers always trying to reach the next level. You’ll be reporting into Director – EM&Procurement Operations EU. Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders.

In Brief, You Are Responsible For

Portfolio ownership: lead and optimize a portfolio of external manufacturing partners across Europe, ensuring strong supply performance, service continuity, and continuous improvement.

Team leadership: manage and develop the external manufacturing team for the assigned portfolio, including direct people leadership, capability building, and performance management.

Strategic sourcing: develop, champion and execute procurement and external manufacturing strategies that support business growth, innovation, value delivery and long‑term network resilience.

Contract negotiation: lead critical contract negotiations, including outsourcing evaluations, commercial terms, service expectations and long‑term partnership agreements.

Risk management: identify and mitigate quality, technical, business and other risks, implementing corrective and preventive actions to protect continuity of supply.

Financial planning: responsible for financial planning and cost management for assigned categories and spend areas, supporting topline growth, productivity and innovation.

Process excellence: drive continuous improvement in external supply management, governance routines and operating structure to maximise results in cost, quality and service.

Stakeholder engagement: lead and influence senior stakeholders across Supply Chain, Operations, R&D, Marketing, Growth, Quality and Procurement to deliver business objectives and enable growth.

Qualifications Please kindly note that you need to have an EU Working Permit (Orientation Year Visa not included) in order to proceed for this position.

Educational background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering or related fields. Additional competencies in Business Administration or Supply Chain are a plus.

Years of work experience: 9+ years of progressive growth experience in procurement, ideally with experience in FMCG, external manufacturing, direct procurement sourcing or outsourced manufacturing environments. People leadership experience is highly valued.

IT skills&knowledge: strong understanding of Excel and presentation development; familiarity with procurement systems (Ariba, SAP), financial planning and data analytics is a must.

Soft skills: excellent communication and interpersonal skills, analytical mindset, organisational agility, priority setting, stakeholder management, commercial sense, resilience and strong leadership capability.

Professional Attributes

Communication skills: excellent interpersonal skills for interactions with senior management and other collaborators.

Confidence and pushback: go‑getter attitude, able to maintain focus despite resistance.

Resilience: recover quickly from setbacks.

Commercial sense: continuously seek opportunities to expand business and deliver savings.

Analytical: translate complex data into simple solutions.

What We Offer You

A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure above market.

A hybrid working model: 3 days at our office in Amsterdam, 2 days at home and an additional 20 days per year to work from anywhere.

Additional benefits such as commuting allowance, hybrid work allowance and reimbursements, bicycle and gym discount plan, employee assistance programme, supplemental health insurance.

Discounts through Kraft Heinz partnerships on fashion, electronics, travel and more.

Room for new insights: share your ideas and we can bring them to action.

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Location(s): Amsterdam

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

#J-18808-Ljbffr