Industrial Strategic Sourcing Professional Cargill - Mechelen (B), Bergen Op Zoom (NL), Haubourdin (FR), Krefeld (DE)

Job Description

Your Job Your mission is to create tangible value managing a portfolio of industrial sourcing projects on an EMEA scale in a heavy processing context (about 100 locations) ●  You therefore engage with business unit stakeholders to understand and represent their requirements  ● You participate in regional industrial category strategy development, facilitate implementation and execution of regional category strategies at the local level  ● You also lead designated industrial sourcing efforts for the businesses/categories you support - from strategy through implementation  ●  You also manage designated supplier relationships. You report to the EMEA Strategic Sourcing Lead representing different sub-categories/a cluster of Cargill businesses and work in a virtual team of peers throughout Europe. Major Tasks:

• Represent business interests related to your category  and the regional sourcing organization
• Participate in strategic  planning sessions to thoroughly understand business requirements and sourcing support needs - ensure regional sourcing strategy incorporates business needs/requirements
• Work with regional category & subcategory leads to inform, develop and understand the category strategy to be executed at the BU level
• Support all aspects of category efforts led by the region (across the sourcing lifecycle), e.g., gather BU-specific data, provide requirements, support baselining; external benchmark, lead supplier selection & negotiations
• Identify and select best potential suppliers for a given subcategory within either the portfolio of incumbent suppliers or new suppliers for the company that meet the requirements needed
• Work with sourcing analysts to ensure appropriate data is being gathered, reported and analyzed in support of category efforts; ensure category baseline accuracy and management
• Ensure implementation of category strategy at the local level - work with BU teams to understand implementation challenges - elevate issues to regional leads & help develop solutions to increase compliance with selected suppliers
• Develop and execute category strategies aligned with "local" sourcing responsibility
• Assist BU's with determining and managing requirements - provide insight into alternative options to better control demand
• Manage designated supplier relationships

 You will be travelling throughout Europe 20-30% of your working time.

Desired Skills & Experience

Your Profile

• University degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related program.
• 5-7 years of international business experience in purchasing experience in an industrial context/ industrial categories (OPEX, CAPEX, packaging, electrical, mechanical, scaffolding, piping, etc., …)
• You display strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, communicate & influence senior stakeholders (internal & external)
• You have the ability to establish trust & credibility with BU leaders & other functional stakeholders; and communicate in a open, honest and convincing way both verbally and in writing.
• You also have strong analytical skills (ability to analyze data & draw out and communicate insights)
• You have demonstrated project management skills and are results oriented.
• You are working remotely, you are able to self-organize and need little managerial supervision.
• You have strong negotiation skills and able to develop win-win agreements.
• You speak fluently English; any other European language would be a plus.

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