Job description

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.


The Indirect Sourcing Senior Buying Specialist will support multiple country or multiple business sourcing activities. In this role, you will execute complex procurement tasks to provide inputs to the global category team.

Responsibilities

  • Execute medium and highly complex sourcing events.
  • Drive the implementation of regional sourcing decisions and provide support with the implementation of global sourcing decisions.
  • Provide inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.
  • Provide comprehensive understanding of regional stakeholder and procurement landscape.
  • Monitor continuous regional supplier and stakeholder relationships.
  • Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of noncontracted materials, goods, services and supplies.
  • Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Job requirements

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with sourcing systems (Ex Ariba).
  • Advanced Excel knowledge.
  • Experience with Capex Sourcing & Procurement

Other

Position Information

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role
Position is open for the following locations: Wayzata, MN - Minneapolis, MN

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