About this role
Job Description Kraft Heinz is looking for Productivity Coordinator who has strong project-focused professional to lead value engineering initiatives across MEA, driving procurement productivity and cost-saving delivery from ideation through implementation. This role requires a highly organized and commercially aware candidate who can manage cross-functional projects, connect stakeholders across the business, and ensure productivity initiatives are delivered on time, in full, and in line with quality and business requirements.
Responsibilities
• Lead value engineering project plans from ideation & kick-off, through to implementation to deliver procurement productivity (saving) KPIs. • Managing MEA cross-functional ideation sessions for saving projects. • Define project scope and manage timelines, milestones, risks, to ensure on-time execution • Close follow-up with Procurement, R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and Supply Chain and other relevant stakeholders to ensure timely execution for network activities. • Manage communication with all key project stakeholders. with ensuring having the needed updates and reporting. • Facilitate cross-functional meetings, document action items, and follow up to ensure timely completion. • Track project progress, validate savings, and maintain project documentation and reporting. • Analyze cost structures with procurement team to identify optimization opportunities across categories. • Ensure all implemented changes comply with quality, regulatory, and business requirements. • Execute run-in run-out (RIRO) plans for VE projects to avoid supply chain losses. • Support in data visualization / automation and process enhancement. • Connect with global productivity team for brainstorming and project visibility. • Steering and consolidating overall productivity KPIs to track and report business impact across procurement price negations and value-creation projects.
Skills
• Fluent in English and Arabic • Strong skills in Excel and PowerPoint • Strong Stakeholder Management skills • Strong Project Management skills • High attention to detail • Curiosity mindset • Strong conflict management and stakeholder management capabilities • Challenger mindset • FMCG background and Supply Chain knowledge or experience are a plus
Location(s) El Tagamoa El Khames Commercial Office Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.