Junior Buyer (packaging)
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
Junior Buyer will handle basic country or multicounty sourcing routine activities and coordinate and execute low to medium complex procurement requirements to provide inputs to the global category team. In this role you will execute direct procurement activities in line with category strategies, works with suppliers and internal stakeholders and ensure compliance with regulatory, sustainability and operational requirements.
This role supports Packaging categories, including flexible, industrial packaging, transport packaging.
Key Accountabilities
- Execute medium complexity sourcing events and support global sourcing initiatives.
- Drive implementation of local sourcing decisions and support local implementation of regional or global sourcing decisions.
- Provide local inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.
- Build and maintain supplier and stakeholder relationships to deliver sustained value while ensuring compliance with standards and regulation, including innovation and sustainability goals.
- Work with cross functional teams to support cost improvement and value engineering initiatives while ensuring business continuity.
- Support supplier relationship management (SRM) activities, by tracking performance, and escalating risks or issues when needed.
- Ensure procurement activities for non-contracted materials, goods, and services are conducted in line with established governance, policies, and risk requirements: escalate issues as needed to ensure business continuity.
- Administer transactions associated with obtaining goods and services.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (procurement, sourcing, engineering) or / and equivalent experience.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in direct procurement / packaging.
- Practice knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Power Point).
- Fluent English.
- Strong analytical skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Work experience in food & manufacturing environments.
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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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