Senior Advisor, Organization Effectiveness & Talent Management
Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve animal lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.
Location
This role could be base in San Jose, Costa Rica or Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Advisor, Organization Effectiveness & Talent Management is responsible for driving high-impact, integrated, and scalable solutions that enable a high-performing organization—from strategy through deployment—within their practice area(s). This job develops and implements processes, frameworks, methodologies, tools, templates, and routines that are aligned to business strategy and deliver strong people outcomes. As a recognized subject matter expert, this role leverages external benchmarking, defines clear outcome/success measures and drives continuous improvement cycles. A key focus of this role includes building capability for managers and employees to effectively adopt and apply these practices to drive a high performing organization.
Key Accountabilities
- DEVELOPMENT: Designs, implements and deploys large and complex organization effectiveness and talent management programs within area(s) of focus -- including methodologies, frameworks, tools, and processes – that enable our strategy and excellent business performance that are simple, scalable, and fit for purpose. Ensures DEI principles are embedded into design and leads benchmarking and integrates external best practices to ensure relevance and impact. Ensures technology solutions effectively support programs.
- IMPLEMENTATION/DEPLOYMENT Leads the deployment of large and complex programs by coordinating across stakeholders, ensuring organizational readiness, building capability and driving adoption through scalable, technology-enabled solutions.
- ADMINISTRATION: Oversees the day-to-day administration of large and complex programs and related processes within area of focus, ensuring strong operational execution, tracking and alignment with program goals, timeline and stakeholder needs.
- MEASUREMENT: Ensures development and analysis of program metrics to assess effectiveness and alignment with strategic objectives, soliciting quantitative and qualitative feedback from key stakeholders, benchmarking against external standards, and delivering actionable insights to the COE and businesses to support continuous improvement, program transparency and adoption of programs.
- STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Partners across stakeholders to gather input, build organizational capability, and drive adoption and organizational buy-in of large and complex programs.
- VENDOR MANAGEMENT: Manages vendor relationships to ensure strategic alignment and high-quality service delivery, while staying current on best practices, tools and methodologies – and identifying opportunities to integrate them into program design, technology enablement and delivery.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 8 years of relevant work experience in HR, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Business, or a related field. Typically reflects 12 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Business, or a related field
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