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Job Purpose and Impact

The Supplier Quality Management and Audit Category Specialist will partner closely with suppliers and internal colleagues in procurement, operations, commercial, supply chain, regulatory as well as research and development to ensure achievement of product safety and quality business goals through effective management of supplier relationships and performance. The focus of the role is on direct contact packaging suppliers. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple departments to ensure vendor evaluations are properly completed to identify risk and appropriate due diligence is given to mitigate risk related to vendors and materials. You will partner with vendors to ensure materials and supplier sources comply with minimum product safety, quality and regulatory standards and assess preventative controls to ensure material and supplier risk evaluations meets requirements. The role can be done remotely or hybrid from any EU country where Cargill has operations.

Key Accountabilities

• Coordinate supplier and material evaluation processes to ensure the use of approved vendors that have met the company's requirements, have provided all required documentation and have completed required product safety and quality improvements.
• Lead the resolution on complex issues or provide expertise in one or more areas of knowledge independently and provide project management leadership across multiple businesses and enterprises for medium to complex projects.
• Serve as the lead auditor for suppliers within a defined category and coordinate efforts within the businesses to ensure follow up on audit findings to complete corrective action plans and ensure compliance.
• Update stakeholders on key processes within the supplier process and lead change management communications to ensure continuous relationship management with suppliers.
• Raise deployment risks or issues, develop mitigation strategies for issue resolution, handle improvement opportunities and respond to questions raised by the business.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience in product safety, quality and auditing systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Educational (MSc preferred) and work experience with packaging for food intended use, including the sustainability aspect of it.
• Confirmed ability to anticipate and mediate conflict and develop equitable solutions for all parties.
• Ability to influence others outside of reporting relationships, work independently, and good stakeholder management.
• Minimum of five years of experience in a processing environment.