Associate Manager Logistics Excellence

• Lead the monthly Logistics United forum, creating a strong routine to review performance, share pains and gains, and exchange best practices across European markets
• Connect logistics teams across markets in Europe, building collaboration, consistency, and shared problem solving
• Identify improvement opportunities across markets and translate them into structured actions and projects
• Lead cross-market and more complex logistics projects from opportunity identification through execution and follow-up
• Drive the regional sustainability agenda within logistics, helping turn ambition into practical actions and measurable progress
• Manage the relationship with the pallet consultancy, ensuring effective partnership, clear priorities, and value delivery
• Drive Logos for Logistics, ensuring strong coordination, engagement, and follow-through
• Track logistics performance themes and surface key risks, opportunities, and recurring issues to the right stakeholders
• Support the sharing and scaling of best practices across markets to improve efficiency, service, and ways of working
• Work closely with market logistics teams and other stakeholders to align on priorities and maintain momentum on key initiatives

• European logistics teams are better connected and learn from each other more effectively
• Logistics United is a high-value forum that drives clarity, action, and sharing of best practices
• Improvement opportunities are translated into concrete cross-market actions and projects
• The pallet consultancy relationship creates visible value for the business
• Sustainability priorities in logistics are actively driven and embedded in the agenda
• Logos for Logistics moves forward with strong ownership and engagement

• 3-4 years experience in logistics, supply chain, or operational excellence roles
• Strong logistics BU experience with a solid understanding of market-level logistics realities
• Experience working across functions, teams, and geographies in a matrix environment
• Ability to lead forums and discussions that create alignment, ownership, and action
• Experience driving improvement initiatives or projects with multiple stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Structured and pragmatic way of working, with the ability to connect detail to the bigger picture
• Comfortable balancing performance management, relationship management, and project delivery
• Interest in sustainability and continuous improvement within logistics

This role also owns key cross-functional relationships and strategic topics, including management of the pallet consultancy partnership, advancement of the sustainability agenda, and delivery of more complex cross-market projects. In addition, the role drives Logos for Logistics and helps ensure strong alignment between local market needs and broader European logistics priorities.

• Cross-market collaboration
• Stakeholder management
• Performance dialogue and facilitation
• Continuous improvement
• Project leadership
• Sustainability mindset
• Strategic coordination
• Strong communication and follow-through

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.