CapEx Associate Buyer Analyst

Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

The CapEx Associate Buyer Analyst will manage full-cycle sourcing activities in addition to data management and analytics, record-keeping and communications for the North American Capital Excellence sourcing team. This role will actively contribute to the build and execution plans of Cargill's ongoing capital project strategy. In this role you will support North American sourcing for Capital Construction project activities. You will coordinate and execute low to medium complex procurement requirements to provide inputs to the category team. Join us to utilize your expertise for sourcing, while collaborating with industry-leading professionals on essential manufacturing facility build project s.

Key Accountabilities

• Support a team of professional procurement sourcers on the Construction/ Capital Procurement team and manage the sourcing of services for construction projects.
• Manage procurement processes for team members. Activities such as: publishing bids, drafting and creating Ariba events, tracking and recording all clarifications of bid events, upload all data for workload management tracking.
• Lead data capture initiatives ensuring data is recorded in appropriate systems for the team to utilize analytics.
• Maintain team documents and systems for project management, training, and internal SharePoint sites.
• Negotiate low-complexity sourcing packages or contract terms.
• Drive implementation of local sourcing decisions and support local implementation of regional sourcing decisions.
• Build and apply a comprehensive understanding of local, stakeholder and procurement market trends.
• Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of services.
• 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

• Bachelor's degree in a related field OR equivalent experience
• Knowledge of electronic sourcing tools used in the sourcing project lifecycle

• Experience with or knowledge of Ariba or other electronic sourcing tools
• Experience with or knowledge of Power BI or other metric-tracking software
• Experience with or knowledge of Clarizen or other Project management tracking tools