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Sr Strategic Sourcing Analyst, Packaging

Kroger Family of Companies

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Location
Cincinnati, OH
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree, required

Job overview

The Sr Strategic Sourcing Analyst supports execution of category strategies, focusing on reducing organizational spend and strengthening relationships with business stakeholders and suppliers. The role develops sourcing analyses, supports contract and supplier relationship management, tracks savings, and collaborates on company initiatives. It also supervises and coaches direct reports, completes performance reviews, and provides feedback.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Leadership, requiredRisk Communication, requiredIndependent Work, requiredAnalytical Skills, requiredData Analysis, requiredCompliance Monitoring, requiredMicrosoft Office, requiredWord, requiredExcel, requiredPowerPoint, requiredOutlook, requiredVisio, requiredOral Communication, requiredWritten Communication, requiredData Visualization, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Business Management, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, CPG, or Similar, required1 Year Procurement Experience, required1 Year Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or Retail Experience, nice to haveCPM/CPSM, CSCP, or Equivalent Certification, nice to have

Full job description

Support the day to day execution of strategies for assigned categories and focus on reducing organizational spend to improve savings and enhancing relationships with business stakeholders and suppliers. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develop different award optimization scenarios to minimize total cost of ownership

  • Respond to supplier and stakeholder questions (e.g., category, supply, event, price, or specification)

  • Support the execution of supplier financing programs maintaining a holistic view of early payment and accounts payables programs

  • Prepare planning guide to facilitate the completion of the negotiation and support where needed

  • Sourcing Analysis

  • Conduct opportunity assessments, benchmarking, and should cost modeling to develop sourcing opportunities

  • Prepare category improvement projections and conduct post-implementation variance analysis

  • Identify total internal costs associated with supplier price, delivery, operations and quality

  • Quantify the overall total ownership cost of each product or service to identify cost savings

  • Contract Management

  • Work with the contract management team in the administration of contract data, addendums, item master sheets, and additional supplier documentation

  • Supplier Relationship Management

  • Support category managers in the development of supplier performance/continuous improvement targets and related scorecards

  • Work with the SRM team in the administration of supplier assessments, score cards, and other analytics to manage supplier performance

  • Benefit Tracking

  • Partner with the KPI & Benefits team to develop a tracking mechanism to report and communicate savings achieved

  • Additional Support

  • Support other initiatives / projects in the company that may affect organization's performance and collaborate with necessary stakeholders

  • Talent Management

  • Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports

  • Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

QUALIFICATIONS MINIMUM

  • Bachelors Degree in Business Management, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, CPG, or similar

  • 1 year professional experience in procurement activities

  • Demonstrated and proven leadership ability

  • Ability to identify, quantify and effectively communicate business risks

  • Selfstarter, ability to work independently in a fastpaced environment while delivering solid actionoriented results quickly

  • Analytical skills with the ability to identify, quantify and effectively leverage data to support business decisions, communicate opportunities and/or raise business risks

  • Ability to monitor compliance with established guidelines, policies, procedures, and regulations

  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Vizio)

  • Ability to synthesize analysis into compelling oral/written communications and presentations

DESIRED

  • 1 year professional experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or Retail

  • CPM/CPSM, CSCP or equivalent certification

  • Expertise in Microsoft Office, data visualization tools

How this job compares

Set against the 1,222 open Strategic Sourcing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Ohio median$102–202K/yr25 salary ranges
  • US median$32–53/hr40 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 62 open Strategic Sourcing jobs in Ohio and 1,222 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Ohio
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Strategic Sourcing postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,030 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 520 of the 1,222 open Strategic Sourcing jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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