Senior Manager, Global Indirect Category Management

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Serve 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).
• 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 category strategies meet the broader needs of the business.
• Deliver significant value creation by leading key negotiations and supplier partnerships with strategic suppliers, 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 place to avoid disruption.
• Support franchise relationships to ensure franchisees understand and align with regional/global sourcing events for respective categories, maximizing participation.
• Drive specification harmonization and optimization in collaboration with regional brand teams.
• Champion sustainability initiatives within the supply chain to reduce environmental impact and support the brand’s commitment to Good Growth, embedding long-term ESG goals into category and sourcing strategies.
• Foster strong, collaborative working relationships with regional functional leaders (Finance, Marketing, Digital & Technology, Operations), regional leadership teams, Supply Chain teams, and external partners/consultants.
• Partner with regional functional leaders (e.g., finance, legal, digital, marketing) to identify opportunities to maximize volume leverage and procurement expertise, delivering increased value to Pizza Hut.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in supply chain roles, ideally within the food industry or related field.
• 8+ years’ experience in global/regional strategic category management/procurement.
• Strong experience in indirect categories (enterprise SaaS/cloud agreements, digital platforms, MarTech ecosystems, understanding of data/privacy/compliance considerations).
• Experience leading procurement transformation initiatives.
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders globally.
• Experience managing strategic supplier relationships at the executive level.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and commercial acumen.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal and external partners across the business.
• Strong communications (presentation, verbal, writing) and ability to gain buy-in and influence key stakeholders at all levels in a global organization.
• High level of intellectual curiosity.
• Strong analytical skills with experience leveraging spend analytics, procurement technologies, and data-driven decision-making tools.