Cargill Business Services is a multi-function, business services center of Cargill Inc, one of the world's biggest privately held organizations that clocked revenues of $150 billion. The center provides high-quality, efficient back-end services across 5 functions including IT, HR, Finance, Cargill Transportation & Logistics and Cargill Strategic Sourcing & Procurement with over 1500+ employees.   Please do visit www.cargill.com for more details on us  Strategic Sourcing & Procurement is a global organization with regional category teams in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific that, along with a strong core team and procurement alignment, are implementing new sourcing strategies to support Cargill businesses and functions. Strategic Sourcing & Procurement employees gain broad exposure to Cargill businesses as they drive tangible value for the organization.   The COE (Center of Excellence) is responsible for the delivery of COE related services of Market Intelligence, Data Analytics, Contract Management, Support for tools like eSourcing, Contract Lifecycle Management, and Procurement Master Data.   Principal Accountabilities:  60% Center of Excellence Responsibilities  Provides supervisory and thought leadership for the COE team by working in close collaboration with the other Regional COE leaders in North America, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Europe. Provide technical and operational leadership to the COE Team members who provide a variety of related services:  Market Intelligence and Data Analytics :   - Lead and support the execution of market intelligence and data analytics processes that support the regional category teams to conduct their sourcing processes and build their category strategies.   - Provide guidance to the team by bringing forth industry leading practices and understanding of data analytic tools to gain better insights into the categories by leveraging supplier and industry analysis.   - Provide industry thought leadership to improve the use of spend data, contract data and other data sources to drive better insights for sourcing and procurement.  - Lead the support of category management efforts by conducting internal stakeholder interactions, analysis and external market data insights to deliver category sourcing strategies  Data and Technology Solutions:  - Lead the team that is responsible for supporting the sourcing and procurement technologies. Example of some of the technologies are spend analysis (Zycus, iAnalyze) and metrics for sourcing team (SAP BI), SAP master data, tools for eSourcing and Contract lifecycle management (Ariba), document management tools (SharePoint) and other relevant technologies for a sourcing and procurement function.  Vendor Management:  - Lead the team that would conduct vendor pre-qualifications, assessments, vendor data enrichment and provide that information to the category teams  - Ensure that vendor policy is being adhered to for Cargill for enablement of vendors on the Ariba network and in Cargill transactional systems  Contract Management:  - Lead the team that is responsible for implementation of operational contracts in procurement systems like SAP, Maximo and others. Also, setup of contracts with the right checks and balances in the global contract repository (Ariba).   Global travel compliance:  - Lead the team that is responsible for ensuring travelers in Cargill comply with the travel policy and report on trends for travel cost savings opportunities  40% Leadership, People Management and Talent Management  - Effectively manage a team of high caliber individuals for delivery of quality work products by ensuring that team is engaged, challenged and focused on client satisfaction  - Effectively prioritizing work assignments and allocating resources while meeting stakeholder expectations, establishing and adjusting priorities.  - Manage a team of 30-40 team size that would service the needs of a global client base   - Ensuring internal resources levels are appropriate to meet quality, cost effectiveness and timeliness of work associated with assigned responsibilities.  - Providing leadership through evaluation and development/coaching/mentoring and motivation of assigned direct reports.  - Supervise staff for the COE teams to include hiring, training, evaluating performance, side-by-side coaching, providing compensation recommendations, and determining disciplinary actions when necessary  - With guidance from CSSP Center Lead, appropriately address human resources issues, such as attendance and interpersonal conflicts in the workplace; consults Center Site Manager and/or Human Resources for guidance as needed  - Ensure the procurement team adheres to the CSSP Procurement Policy, Internal Risks/Controls, Fraud Prevention guidelines and adheres to applicable laws, rules, and regulations; monitor compliance with these areas.  Required Qualifications:  - Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Engineering or Science, or equivalent education and experience  - 12+ years relevant experience with increasing responsibility  - 5+ years of supervisory experience  - Experience managing and developing team talent  - Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint),   - Demonstrated strong self-initiative, sense of urgency and customer relationship building skills.  - Demonstrate a "hands-on" style and willingness to engage proactively with managers, directors and vice-presidents.  - Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills in English.  Preferred Qualifications :  - Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) is preferred.   - Prior experience in consulting with one of the reputed strategy, process, procurement consulting companies  - Six sigma or lean certifications and a few years of experience implementing the principle  - Prior experience in Zycus, Ariba and other PRTP systems is preferred  - Strong organizational, analytical and project management skills.  - Ability to present information (prepare reports, rationale and recommendations clearly and concisely to all levels of management).

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Cargill - COE Leader - Global Strategic Sourcing & Procurement 

Cargill - COE Leader - Global Strategic Sourcing & Procurement  ,Job Description for Cargill - COE Leader - Global Strategic Sourcing & Procurement  in Cargill Business Services in  Bangalore for (15-23) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Cargill - COE Leader - Global Strategic Sourcing & Procurement  in Cargill Business Services in  Bangalore for (15-23) years of experience. Apply Now!