Latam North, Plant Materials & Services Category Lead
Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.
Job Purpose and Impact
The PM&S Category Lead will handle the development and implementation of a regional sourcing strategy for a category and will identify, create and capture value from competitive advantages emerging from the company's business scale and market insights. In this role, you will achieve established targets for the category, provide direction to guide and lead global supplier contact for strategic negotiations. You will be an essential partner in the development of insights that link together value creation and deploy and assess local commercial viability.
Key Accountabilities
- Synthesize all technical and economic drivers of Plant Materials and Services in Latam North markets, build relationships with key business partners and understand regional competitive dynamics of categories to develop global expertise for categories around responsibility area.
- Create regional sourcing strategies that leverage business leading market positions to establish a competitive advantage in the marketplace and lead category contract negotiations with global and regional suppliers.
- Aligning with regional risk, management and sourcing directors and leads to develop a multifaceted sourcing strategy that optimizes value creation for the company.
- Communicate global and local market drivers and local feedback and incorporate it into regional businesses to ensure long term local competitiveness of regional businesses.
- Communicate detailed market intelligence with appropriate audiences to support our commercial approach in accordance with the customer segment, competitive positioning and market trends.
- Accountable for support global sourcing initiatives, including the appropriate value capture mechanism. Implement, measure and report category value creation.
- 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
- Minimum of four years of related work experience
- Other minimum qualifications may apply
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in purchasing and manufacturing technology /MRO and Maintenance
- Experience with customer segmentation and pricing strategy.
Countries: Central America and Colombia
Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.
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