Sourcing & Procurement Specialist
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 Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The sourcing & procurement specialist will handle the link between multiple sites assigned, Procurement PM&S organization and the vendors to ensure Procurement Process compliance and ensure competitive pricing for the plant materials & services. The sourcing & procurement specialist will handle the link between multiple sites assigned (with first focus to Sas van Gent), before in time expanding scope in order to leverage greater cost efficiencies through multi-site contracts.
Key Accountabilities
- Participate in local supplier selection and negotiations, may lead more complex selection and negotiation.
- Follow-up of contractor performance.
- Support the implementation of Select Supplier Agreement.
- Identify the PM&S need for the plant and translate into marketable spec.
- Procurement Processing
- Challenge PR’s on the scope and necessity.
- Ensure competitive pricing for PR’s: by checking if the PR is in line with a Procurement agreement and comparing PR competitiveness with market conditions. - Goal to improve cost competitiveness by 500K€/y.
- Ensure Procurement Process Compliance.
- Increase the maturity of our Source to Pay Process
- Reducing text buying.
- Support the automation of PO creation. - Conduct more complex research and analysis using a general understanding of data management and analytics and sourcing.
- Supporting the local deployment and utilization of Corlido to bring value.
- Seek to establish agreed rates of work with local embedded contractors.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience in procurement.
- Minimum of two years of work experience in the services/maintenance category.
- Fluent in English – daily work in an international environment.
- Fluent in Dutch / Flemish – regular collaboration with regional stakeholders and suppliers.
- Strong proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Solid negotiation and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with SAP.
- Experience working in virtual, multi-cultural teams.
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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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