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[Apply on Kraft Heinz Company’s careers site →](https://jobs.kraftheinz.com/careers/job/1970324837569299) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Kraft Heinz Company](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/kraft-heinz-company/) / Buyer, Indirects - MRO Data Analyst ## Job description 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 23, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 25, 2026 - Last checked: Nov 8, 2026 - Listed for: 16 days - Location: Chicago/Aon Center, Illinois, United States of America[Apply on Kraft Heinz Company’s careers site →](https://jobs.kraftheinz.com/careers/job/1970324837569299) ## Hiring at Kraft Heinz Company - Open jobs: 768 - New in the last 7 days: After two weekly collections - Tracked since: Jul 11, 2026 [All Kraft Heinz Company jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/kraft-heinz-company/) · [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) ## More jobs at Kraft Heinz Company ### [Finance Manager, Management Reporting & Data Foundation – Americas, Supply Chain](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/kraft-heinz-company/jobs/3475e5292cf18d301251/) Chicago/Aon Center, Illinois, United States of America ### [Manager, IT - Consumer Data Governance & Media Operations](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/kraft-heinz-company/jobs/1980269568f90a82d761/) Chicago/Aon Center, Illinois, United States of America ### [Director, Consumer Insights - Taste Elevation](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/kraft-heinz-company/jobs/b8f5a8197b5ad3de8869/) Chicago/Aon Center, Illinois, United States of America ### [Director, Creative Effectiveness](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/kraft-heinz-company/jobs/d28250561293fea23c6a/) Chicago/Aon Center, Illinois, United States of America ### [Director, Engineering – Meat, Cheese, Coffee, Snacks](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/kraft-heinz-company/jobs/23735f2dfaed588c10b6/) Chicago/Aon Center, Illinois, United States of America ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Responsable de l'amélioration continue et de la performance - Achats indirects](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/alstom/jobs/97b138e77a605da75093/) Alstom · Saint-Bruno, CA ### [Manager/Sr Manager of Procurement, Indirects, Development & OM](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/repsol/jobs/a5969e59ad6faf37f9fd/) Repsol · Downtown Houston ### [MRO Lead - Cooked](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cargill/jobs/b7f486add8c2daca7dad/) Cargill · Fort Worth, Texas ### [Purchasing Agent - MRO](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/albertsons/jobs/894957d5c62697c866b3/) Albertsons · Tempe, AZ, United States ### [Category Director - Maintenance, Repair, & Operations (MRO)/Consumables](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/bae-systems/jobs/6bad5d1ae5a981d31244/) BAE Systems · Falls Church, Virginia, United States [Jobs in Illinois](/locations/us-il/)[Data & Analytics jobs](/functions/data-analytics/) OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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