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Senior Analyst, Procurement Price Improvement at a glance...

This is a Chicago Based, Procurement role reporting through R&D, in which the individual will be the Price Improvement Portfolio Manager for Productivity projects across our North American businesses. The candidate will be identifying & mitigating risks and working cross functional to build pipelines in order to drive delivery of the Pricing Initiative portfolio to meet business goals. Candidate will be required to develop strong cadence and routines with Procurement to capture cost reduction opportunities across our Supplier and External Manufacturing network, while collaborating with Finance Teams to ensure initiatives financially deliver per forecast. Candidates should have examples of developing work plans and routines, leading projects with multiple partners, and bringing cross-functional teams together to complete project plans. This includes understanding the business need, defining scope, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, communicating results, handling challenging cross functional priorities across a multi-category portfolio. Proven communication, organizational agility, and collaboration skills are critical in this role. Preferable candidate should have strong project management skills in ops, procurement or R&D space, who is able to apply prior findings or scientific principles for fast adaptation and/or someone who can challenge the status quo for productivity improvements. This position requires an individual to handle multiple assignments/tasks concurrently and demonstrate a high degree of autonomy. Exhibiting a collaborative and "thinking outside of the box" demeanor while applying innovative solutions are a must. While this role has no direct reports, the Portfolio Manager will be indirectly handling and working with Procurement teams, Finance and R&D personnel, to effectively drive the Efficiency Agenda.

• Portfolio Management of PI initiatives - build PI savings pipeline via working with Procurement Leaders/Buyers, identify & mitigate portfolio risks, advance execution issues and finally drive delivery of PI pipeline to meet Target
• Create governance structure that links people, process and tool in managing PI portfolio for accuracy, reliability and integrity in financial forecasts
• Challenge the status quo and define a path to succeed
• Stakeholder management across Procurement and Finance Leadership
• Financial analysis of PI portfolio to show sufficiency and/or risks
• Collaborate with PMO-VE/R&D Leadership to solve issues regarding pricing impacting VE initiatives

• Minimum bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in Direct Procurement (i.e., Ingredients, Packaging, External Manufacturing), Operations, Engineering, Food Science, Product R&D, or Packaging R&D.
• Prior Continuous Improvement experience within Operational environments desired
• Strong Project Management & Excellent Organizational skills
• Strong written, verbal, and listening skills
• Ability to effectively negotiate and influence business decisions and change
• Strong Analytical, Planning and Execution skills
• Effective at establishing trust and building effective business relationships
• Interpersonal Agility - knows how to get things done both through formal and informal channels
• Proficient Excel Skills and in developing Presentations

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