What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ingredient Buyer position at Cargill?
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Ingredient Buyer will be responsible for country or multicounty sourcing routine activities. In this role, you will coordinate and execute low to medium complex procurement requirements to provide inputs to the global category team.
Key Accountabilities
• Execute medium complex requests for the sourcing process.
• Drive implementation of local sourcing decisions and support local implementation of regional or global sourcing decisions.
• Provide local inputs to the global category team for category strategy development and execution.
• Build and apply a comprehensive understanding of local, stakeholder and procurement landscape.
• Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of non-contracted materials, goods, services and supplies.
• Administer transactions associated with obtaining goods and services.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.
Position Information
• The position is based in Wichita, KS
• Relocation assistance is not provided for this role
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Able and willing to work weekends and other shifts based on business needs.
• Able to travel up to 5%
Preferred Qualification
• Previous experience buying ingredients.
• Experience with SAP
• Strong Leadership skills
• Attention to detail.
• Strong Communication skills
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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Salary : $73,100 - $92,600
