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 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 Sourcing Specialist will lead sourcing activities for an assigned portfolio of ingredients across multiple countries in the Iberia-North Europe region, with occasional support for other countries as required. In this role, you will deploy and implement group procurement strategy for your portfolio, while working in close coordination with the global sourcing team to combine regional and global market intelligence, stakeholder requirements, and business priorities. The role includes individual decision rights within defined scope and a strong expectation to influence sourcing recommendations, while final decisions are often aligned and led through the global category structure. You will also be responsible for leading cost forecasting for your portfolio of ingredients and coordinating broader ingredient cost inputs that contribute to finished goods forecasting, working closely with sourcing, formulation, supply chain, technical, and quality teams.
- Deploy and implement procurement strategy for the assigned ingredient portfolio across the Iberia-North Europe region, ensuring alignment between regional business needs and global category direction.
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Lead sourcing activities and complex sourcing events for the assigned portfolio, contributing regional market insight, stakeholder requirements, and commercial recommendations into sourcing decisions in coordination with the global sourcing team.
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Identify and deliver value through standardization, demand consolidation, competitive bidding, supplier optimization, and alternative sourcing approaches that improve competitiveness and supply security.
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Support supplier negotiations and coordinate the onboarding of new suppliers, ingredients, and sourcing options in partnership with quality, technical, formulation, and supply chain stakeholders.
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Manage supplier relationships for the assigned portfolio, including performance monitoring, contractual execution, and support for issue resolution and corrective action follow-up.
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Conduct market intelligence and provide insight on market trends, regional supply dynamics, and ingredient cost development to support sourcing strategy and business decisions.
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Lead cost forecasting for the assigned portfolio and coordinate broader ingredient cost inputs that contribute to finished goods forecasting.
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Lead or coordinate cross-functional sourcing and supply initiatives involving procurement, supply chain, quality, technical, and formulation teams.
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Other duties as assigned.
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Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
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Minimum of two years of related work experience
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Other minimum qualifications may apply
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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