Job Description
Kraft Heinz is looking for
Productivity Coordinator for a 1-year contract 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. 
