Vacancies at Cargill

Job Purpose and Impact

The Buyer will be responsible for the end-to-end management and execution of sourcing activities within CBI UK & EMEA, with a primary focus on Packaging and Oleochemicals. This role will primarily support factories located in Hull (UK), Gouda (NL), and Tampere (FI).
In this position, you will manage complex procurement processes within CBI and contribute to cross-business, regional, and global category strategies. You will also influence stakeholders within the job area by clearly explaining facts, policies, and practices. Additionally, you will build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment with overall category and sourcing objectives.

Key Accountabilities

• Builds and applies a comprehensive understanding of regional spend, stakeholder landscape, and the procurement landscape.
• Executes medium and highly complex regional sourcing decisions and events.
• Drives the implementation of regional sourcing decisions and provide support with the implementation of global sourcing decisions.
• Ensures business continuity by proactively mitigating supply and supplier risks.
• Demonstrates a medium/high level understanding of Source-to-Contract processes, including—but not limited to—sourcing execution, contract management excellence, procurement, market / spend data analysis, negotiations, procurement tools/systems, and Supplier Relationship/Partnership Management.
• Provide inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution (where needed).
• Manages ongoing regional supplier and stakeholder relationships, for the long term, to deliver value across various areas whilst complying with regulatory requirements (e.g., innovation, sustainability).

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of two years procurement experience.
• Practice knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Power Point).
• Fluent English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Source to Contract activities.
• Relevant market experience.
• SAP Ariba practice knowledge.

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Supply Chain Services Representative, is responsible to coordinate and execute administrative activities for a subset of suppliers, customers and flows, focusing on activities related to contract execution, planning and customer service. In this role, you will partner closely with local customer service representatives, high seas teams, supply chain planners and transport and logistics team members.

Key Accountabilities

• Enter and complete all entries of commodity movements data in the system. Monitor and handle of all commodity contract application, review and follow up daily on the failed as well as the provisional applications.
• Reconcile inventory with all plants and third party warehouses daily movements data and start/end stock confirmation, identify, escalate, investigate and resolve stock differences.
• Declare monthly stocks to insurance in line with corporate and business group policy and procedures.
• Settle all shipped and applied commodity contracts. Issue and dispatch of commodity sales invoices to customers, validate incoming purchase commodity invoices and the timely follow up on all exceptions raised by finance.
• Review and validate incoming service invoices against relevant accruals/purchase order. Review and enter services accruals and monitors, analyze and report on expenses deviation with the local stakeholders.
• Act as primary contact for supply chain management systems and tools used within their area. Bring together data and run regular reports in support of supply chain business processes.
• Participate in local continuous improvement in contract execution process area and provide recommendations, ideas and plans to local and functional management. Provide data for local scorecard and related critical metrics for the local business and team.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Good communication skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
• Relevant work experience in supply chain.
• Fluent in English and in local language.
• Experience working with SAP

Preferred Qualifications

• International trade/shipping experience.