Buyer, Indirects - MRO Data Analyst

As a Data Analyst, Procurement – MRO, you will serve as the analytics engine for the North American Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) category. You will transform sourcing, supplier, inventory, and plant maintenance data into actionable insights that improve cost, working capital, supplier performance, contract compliance as well as increase our speed of decision making and sourcing execution.

You will partner with Category Buyers, Category Managers, Maintenance Leaders, Plant Stakeholders, Finance Stakeholders, Master Data Management team, IT, and suppliers to identify value opportunities, build repeatable analytical tools, quantify and validate savings, and strengthen the foundational data required to execute the MRO category strategy. The ideal candidate combines technical analytics capability, procurement and manufacturing business acumen, and the ability to support stakeholder decision making.

Job Description

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain spend analytics across MRO categories, suppliers, plants, materials, and buying channels (SAP, Ariba catalog and non-catalog).

- Clean, enrich, classify, and reconcile purchasing data, supplier invoices, catalog, contract, inventory, and material master data.

- Identify savings opportunities through price variance analysis, supplier consolidation, demand aggregation, tail-spend analysis, specification alignment, and sourcing opportunity sizing.

- Build item-level pricing benchmarks using supplier quotations, distributor catalogs, transaction history, RFP data, and market information.

- Analyze supplier price changes, inflation requests, freight, surcharges, and tariff claims; document assumptions and assist with simplifying complex data to enable decision making.

- Analyze inventory consumption trends, stock levels, inventory turns, excess and obsolete materials, duplicate items, and standardization opportunities to support working-capital improvement.

- Partner with maintenance and plant stakeholders to validate material usage, criticality, substitution potential, and site-specific requirements.

- Develop supplier scorecards and track cost, quality, service, delivery, continuity, and contract-performance metrics.

- Support strategic sourcing events by preparing baselines, supplier bid files, bid-comparison models, scenario analyses, award recommendations, and implementation tracking within the Ariba sourcing tool or other available tools.

- Monitor catalog utilization, preferred-supplier adoption, leakage spend analysis and off-contract purchasing; identify corrective actions and measure results.

- Help create and enhance dashboards and automated reporting for supplier spend, project pipeline, savings, inventory, supplier performance, and sourcing execution.

- Establish transparent savings calculations, maintain initiative-level documentation, and partner with Finance for validation.

- Continuously improve analytical processes, reporting cadence, data controls, and documentation to reduce manual work and increase repeatability.

Key Performance Outcomes

- Helping plants get the right parts and services at the right cost by providing spend cube visibility, data completeness, taxonomy classification accuracy, and timely reporting

- Supporting a large, business-critical category by enabling analytics and visibility across hundreds of millions of dollars in MRO spend, supplier relationships, inventory management, and maintenance services that keep manufacturing operations running.

- Creating the backbone of category strategy through data by transforming fragmented sourcing, supplier, inventory, and maintenance information enabling insights into supplier consolidation opportunities, inventory optimization, pricing transparency, and measurable savings delivery.

Expected Experience & Required Skills

Required

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.

- 3+ years of experience in analytics, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, operations, or a related field.

- Advanced Excel capability, including data modeling, Power Query, fuzzy logic, pivot table, scenario analysis, and structured analytical methods.

- Experience working with large, imperfect datasets and reconciling information across multiple sources.

- Ability to simplify complex data to enable decision making

- Strong problem-solving, project management, communication, and stakeholder-partnership skills.

Preferred

- Experience supporting MRO, manufacturing, maintenance, engineering, industrial distribution, or indirect procurement.

- Experience with SAP, Ariba, Power BI, SQL, Python, Alteryx, or comparable analytics platforms.

- Understanding of sourcing, contracting, supplier management, inventory optimization, material master data, and procurement savings methodologies.

- Experience developing automated dashboards, repeatable data pipelines, and executive-level performance reporting.

Additional Competencies

- Data-driven decision making and intellectual curiosity.

- Ownership, accountability, and disciplined follow-through.

- Business partnership and influence without authority.

- Continuous improvement and simplification mindset.

- Strategic thinking with strong attention to detail.

- Results orientation and ability to manage competing priorities.

Work Environment & Schedule

This position is considered a normal office environment with moderate travel to customer locations, stores, manufacturing facilities, etc.; offices are open workspaces. To create a more agile and modern workplace, we allow Chicago/Aon Center based employees to work virtually for up to two days each week and expect them to work in-person during the defined core days at their assigned work location at least three days per workweek.

Our Total Rewards philosophy is to provide a meaningful and flexible spectrum of programs that equitably support our diverse workforce and their families and complement Kraft Heinz’ strategy and values.

New Hire Base Salary Range:
$77,800.00 - $97,300.00

Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.

The compensation offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors

Benefits: Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs. Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Wellbeing: We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.

You’ll be able to participate in a variety of benefits and wellbeing programs that may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors, for example:

- Physical - Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
- Social - Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
- Emotional – Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
- Financial – 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability

Location(s)
Chicago/Aon Center

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.  In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact [email protected] for assistance.