Procurement Officer / Buyer - Feed Ingredients

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

This position is responsible for procuring assigned feed ingredients for C-Joy Poultry's feed mills in the Philippines. The TRM Feed Ingredients - Procurement Officer/Buyer will serve as specific feed ingredient market contact for C-Joy in the Philippines. This role will be expected to drive value for the business via: tactical origination (i.e., geographies and suppliers), and management of price risk of feed ingredients.

• • Define and execute local feed ingredient sourcing strategy, along with the Senior Merchant
  • Work with the Feed Mill team on feed formulation opportunities, in an effort to reduce feed costs
  • Identify opportunities to capitalize on Cargill's risk management expertise with customers/suppliers

• • Understand and track pipeline requirements for assigned feed ingredients
  • Create reporting to track costs associated with feed ingredient pipeline
  • Minimize supply chain inefficiencies, and track associated value created
  • Identify supply risks and install mitigation actions where needed

• • Liase with market participants (e.g., customers, brokers, suppliers) to better understand competitive landscape, market pricing, and sourcing opportunites

• • Work with sales team to define cadence, and content, of market updates for strategic customers (i.e., Jolibee)
  • Create desired format for market updates
  • Continue to develop managerial reporting to help define business risk associated with feed price changes
  • Execute purchase contracts
  • Ensure accurate position reporting

• University Degree
• Minimum 5 years' experience in feed ingredient procurement (e.g. Planning, Operations, Logistics, Procurement/Sourcing)
• Exposure to and understanding of Philippine grain markets
• Fluency in Tagalog/English
• Experience with working in a multinational/-cultural environment
• Experience with working in a large matrix organization set-up
• Leadership experience (managing through others, influencing, developing)
• Strong team player (Player/Coach principle)
• Strong communication, influencing and motivation skills
• Detail-oriented
• Strong analytical, business process and problem-solving capabilities
• Build relationships within Cargill and within supply base