Senior Manager, Global Indirect Category Management

Pizza Hut Careers

There's nothing cookie-cutter about Pizza Hut. Not our pizzas. Not our people. And definitely not the way we live life. Around here, we don't settle for anything less than food we're proud to serve.

Pizza Hut Careers

There's nothing cookie-cutter about Pizza Hut. Not our pizzas. Not our people. And definitely not the way we live life. Around here, we don't settle for anything less than food we're proud to serve.

Senior Manager, Global Indirect Category Management

Pizza Hut

Hybrid

The Senior Manager, Global Indirect Category Management will help shape the future of one of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands. As Pizza Hut accelerates digital transformation, omnichannel growth, and global modernization, this role will play a critical leadership position in building strategic supplier ecosystems that power customer experience, innovation, and enterprise growth worldwide.

Lead the transformation of Pizza Hut’s global indirect procurement strategy across Digital & Technology, Marketing, Aggregators, and Professional Services. This role serves as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, driving enterprise value creation, innovation, supplier partnerships, and digital enablement across a complex global franchise ecosystem

• Lead the Global Indirect Category, partnering with regional & global leadership to align procurement strategies with business priorities and strategic requirements. e.g. (Digital & Technology, Professional Services, Marketing, Aggregators, etc.)
• Manage strategic supplier ecosystems across enterprise technology, digital commerce, customer engagement, marketing technology, consulting, and growth platforms.
• Partner with global & regional functional leads to ensure that category strategies are meeting the broader needs of the business
• Deliver significant value creation leading key negotiations and supplier partnerships with strategic suppliers and establish strategic partnerships, including developing business cases for long-term investments and innovation.
• Manage all potential category risks and ensure sufficient mitigation and business continuity plans are in pace to avoid disruption
• Support franchise relationship to ensure franchisees understand and are aligned to regional / global sourcing events for respective category and provide maximum participation
• Drive specification harmonization & optimization in collaboration with regional brand teams
• Champion sustainability initiatives within supply chain which reduce environmental impact & support the brands commitment to Good Growth – Ensure long term ESG goals are embedded into category & sourcing strategies
• Foster strong, collaborative working relationships with regional functional leaders (Finance, Marketing, Digital & Technology, Operations, etc.), regional leadership teams, Supply Chain teams, and external partners/consultants.
• Partner with regional functional leaders (e.g. finance, legal, digital,