{"id":3255286,"url":"https://alion.io/job/the-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead","title":"Capital Procurement Lead","company":{"id":1910939,"name":"The Kroger Co.","domain":"krogerfamilycareers.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/krogerfamilycareers","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":192,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.969,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":6,"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cincinnati, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":75000,"max_usd":174000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1314},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T21:16:43Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-11-01T19:10:19Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"The Capital Procurement Manager serves as the strategic liaison between Facility Engineering, Enterprise Sourcing, and divisional project teams to optimize the procurement of maintenance and energy capital projects across the enterprise. This role leverages the annual capital allocation to identify similar strategic projects across divisions, enabling bundled bidding to maximize scale and cost efficiency. The manager supports divisional project managers by centralizing the bidding process, reducing administrative burden, and ensuring consistency in vendor selection and service quality. Additionally, the Capital Procurement Manager facilitates collaboration between divisions and vendors to coordinate project schedules, optimize resource utilization, and continuously monitor vendor performance to support strategic sourcing decisions.\n Analyze annual maintenance and energy capital allocations to identify similar projects across divisions that can be bundled for enterprise-wide bidding, leveraging scale for cost savings.\n Serve as the primary liaison with Enterprise Sourcing to develop and execute bidding strategies for capital projects, ensuring alignment with corporate standards and maximizing financial impact.\nOversee the bidding process for capital projects, relieving divisional project managers of administrative tasks and ensuring consistency and transparency in procurement practices.\nFacilitate collaboration between divisions and selected vendors to efficiently schedule projects, optimize resource allocation, and minimize operational disruptions.\nCollaborate with divisions to evaluate vendor performance, support vendor selection, and address service quality issues to ensure successful project execution.\nIdentify opportunities to leverage shared vendor relationships and best practices across divisions, driving enterprise-wide efficiency and value.\nAlign capital procurement activities with broader sourcing strategies to support operational excellence and financial efficiency.\nMaintain contractual oversight, ensure compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements, and document procurement activities accurately.\nDeliver regular updates and analysis to senior leadership on procurement outcomes, cost savings, and vendor performance.\nImplement best practices in capital procurement, drive process improvements, and leverage technology to enhance efficiency and transparency.\nTravel independently up to 25%.\nMust be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Minimum\nBachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, construction, or comparable related field experience (or equivalent field experience)\nStrong analytical skills for forecasting and data analysis.\nExcellent organizational and multitasking abilities.\nProficiency in computerized inventory management systems.\nEffective communication and collaboration skills.\nAbility to manage supply chain operations and ensure timely delivery.\nKnowledge of cost-effective procurement practices and inventory management strategies.\nDesired\n5 years in the field of capital project management\nDivision Project Manager\nRegional Project Manager","description_format":"text","description_chars":3211,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Online Groceries","Prepared Foods","Pharmacies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-26T01:33:25Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 74 · green card filings: 31","filings_12m":74,"filings_prev_12m":70,"green_card_filings_12m":31,"median_offered_wage_usd":132310,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":22,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.499,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":6,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T21:11:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":32435,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1910939},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1910939"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthe-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fthe-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fthe-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/the-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthe-kroger-co-capital-procurement-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3255286}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"krogerfamilycareers.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3255286},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}