Advisor, Credit Global Process Owner 1

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.

Location and Compensation Info

Location: Wayzata, MN (ability to work out of our Wayzata, MN Cargill office on a hybrid basis)
Relocation: relocation will not be provided for this position
Visa: we are not considering visa sponsorship for this position

Compensation Data:
The expected salary for this position is $150,000 - $225,000.. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.

At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellness to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).

Job Purpose and Impact

The Advisor, Credit Global Process Owner job leads and advises on designing, implementing and managing optimal process solutions for Cargill's Credit Risk capability. In close partnership with Cargill's Credit capability owner and Product Manager - Credit, this job plays a key role in translating strategic objectives into global process direction that is fit-for-purpose, standardized, automation-ready across businesses and regions, with a focus on reducing non-value-added variation, embed proactive risk management and enabling future-state processes that support automation and AI. As a recognized subject matter authority in this field, this job leads and consults on process management activities, including process design, documentation and optimization, monitoring process performance, recommending continuous improvement measures while adopting business process management practices and standards. This job leads cross functional collaboration to identify and recommend change management and risk mitigation options associated with process changes and implement feedback mechanisms to gather user insights.

Key Accountabilities

• PROCESS STRATEGY: Aligns and implements the process strategy for Cargill's Credit Risk capability by setting priorities, establishing roadmaps, clarifying roles and resource needs, and ensuring process design and technology solutions remain aligned to the vision for the capability.
• PROCESS DESIGN: Leads and advises the design of the end to end Credit Risk capability, that are fit for purpose by counterparty archetype, risk profile and user need, ensuring repeatability and scalability.
• PROCESS TRANSFORMATION: Leads the maturity of Cargill's Credit Risk capability processes by defining future-state process requirements, simplifying and standardizing ways of working, reducing non-value-added variation, and partnering across Credit, Product, Technology and business teams to enable scalable, automation-ready processes that improve decision quality, speed, control effectiveness, and user experience with a greater focus on proactive risk management.
• TECHNOLOGY ENABLEMENT: Consults, by applying advanced knowledge of process, variations and dependencies to ensure support of technology deployment projects to enable business readiness and facilitate technology enablement decisions. Leads monitoring post deployment process performance and takes process stabilization measures.
• PROCESS DOCUMENTATION & TRAINING: Creates, reviews and documents global policies, standard operating procedures, work instructions and job aids for a specific set of processes, ensuring compliance with the business process management standards. This includes defining process data requirements, handoffs, decision points, and controls so processes can be measured, automated, and improved over time. Identifies and analyzes knowledge gaps, proposes training needs, develops training materials, and delivers standard process training.
• PROCESS GOVERNANCE: Leads and advises on process governance, including analyzing process variation needs and influencing to maintain harmonization, standardization and simplification where differentiation does not add value. Maintains process documentation up-to-date and compliant with business process management standards and takes actions to adopt taxonomy changes in the appropriate timeframe.
• STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT & CHANGE IMPACT: Influences and aligns a broad range of stakeholders, both within and outside of Credit, to the process priorities, advises on assessing change impacts, guides to ensure successful implementation of complex process solutions, and monitors adoption.
• PROCESS PERFORMANCE: Leads and advises on the definition of key performance indicators to measure process effectiveness and monitor the impact of process improvements and process changes, identifies and recommends risk mitigation solutions, and benchmarks metrics both internally and externally to maintain competitive performance.
• PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Leads and reviews the analysis of process data to support process mining efforts and enable continuous improvement and automation initiatives, partners to find opportunities for process and workflow standardization and improvement with a focus on eliminating process deficiencies and improving customer and employee experience, and recommends actionable plans to implement efficient and effective process improvement through process excellence practices.

• Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.

• Experience leading, designing and implementing future-state processes, in a complex, global, or matrixed organization that improves business outcomes and speed while balancing efficiency, strengthen controls, and scale across businesses.
• Deep understanding of credit risk management processes, controls and decisioning in a complex commercial, trading, financial services or risk management environment.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives into practical process roadmaps, operating models, governance routines and implementation plans that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Strong change leadership skills, with experience influencing senior stakeholders, aligning cross-functional teams and driving adoption of standardized ways of working.
• Ability to define and use process performance metrics, control indicators and feedback mechanisms to monitor effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities and sustain process discipline.