Cargill Looking for Canada Grain & Crop Inputs Operations Leader (Open to Remote) at Manitoba Full Time

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s agricultural supply chain business, where we seamlessly connect farming customers with food, feed and industry.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Canada Grain & Crop Inputs Operations Leader will build and lead our top grade business operations and supply chain organization enabling our business to operate in a safe, responsible and sustainable manner while delivering value to our customers. You will oversee efficient and timely operation of our group value stream including order intake, manufacturing, and product delivery. We seek a professional who will draw on best practices and methods from the business and within the industry to exceed expectations for quality, reliability, cost, delivery, and responsiveness and continuously improve our integrated supply chain.

*This opportunity offers a remote work option, preference will be given to candidates within Winnipeg, MB. *

Key Accountabilities

• Translate our strategy into building business operations and supply chain (BOSC) capabilities to produce exceptional results for our customers and enabling business growth.

• Strategize with market leaders to optimize the integrated supply chain and generate value for customers and the business.

• Provide advice and counsel on the Group’s business operations and operational issues to your business leader and the enterprise leadership team.

• Develop and sustain a competitive plant operations footprint that enables the business’s short- and long-term performance objectives.

• Partner with key stakeholder to develop and sustain our total quality program leading to limited cost of nonconformance across the enterprise.

• Drive the adoption of manufacturing excellence capabilities and ensure implementation across the facilities of a group.

• Champion the environment and sustainability goals of the organization while driving the implementation and visibility of best practices, audit methodologies and continuous improvement across the group.

• Other duties as assigned

• Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management activities for direct reports and their organizations, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training and budgeting. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Diploma/Certificate or Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Ability to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.

• Business acumen and an understanding of competitive economics.

• Systems thinking, ability to envision end to end and see interdependencies.

• Collaboration mindset and ability to build trust and work through conflict in a constructive manner.

• Prior experience developing business or function strategies, and translating them into annual business plans.

• Consistent record of developing leadership and technical capabilities in others and building successors for the future.

• Confirmed experience engaging and leading large teams in operations or supply chain.

• Minimum of eight years of related work experience, five years of supervisory experience

• Ability to travel up to 50% for business within Canada

• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree

• Experience in the three disciplines of: supply chain, operations and customer facing roles.

Relocation

Relocation may be provided to Winnipeg, MB.

Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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