Sourcing Specialist at Cargill in Wayzata, Minnesota

Job Description:

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 154 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 Sourcing Specialist will perform activities that ensure efficient transportation of materials and products from origin to destination. We seek a professional who will participate in Identifying and selecting most appropriate and cost-effective transportation. This position will manage the day to day business relationship with key transportation technology providers.  The position will measure and drive continuous improvement of key metrics in technology adoption.  This role is responsible for advancing best practices in e-sourcing technology.
 
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Manage supply chain visibility programs.  Drive increased internal utilization and external compliance of available tools.  Will work with providers to understand their future capability roadmap.


• Negotiate rates with carriers and run one-off bid events in e-sourcing tool.


• Apply a general understanding of transportation and logistics practices and procedures to assist in negotiating freight prices and contract terms for customers,


• Update transportation websites and databases for contracts, freight rates and estimates, insurance information, customer information, etc.


• Independently analyze current transportation operations practices to resolve process and cost improvement opportunities.


• You will work under general supervision and independently solve moderately complex issues while referring more complex problems to a higher-level staff.


• Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in business, transportation, supply chain or a related field.


• Minimum of two years of working experience of the fundamentals in transportation, logistics, operations or supply chain management.


• Advanced Microsoft Excel expertise.


• Experience with sourcing events OR sourcing optimization software

• Experience with supply chain visibility tools and software, e-sourcing tools, supply chain optimization software


• Functional knowledge of technology and ERP systems, including Transportation Management System (TMS)


• Five years of experience in the areas of transportation, logistics, operations, SCM, preferably in the truck mode


• Knowledge creating and leading large-scale sourcing events using procurement/optimization software


• Demonstrated project management skills


• Financial modeling skills


• Functional knowledge of technology and ERP systems, including Transportation Management System (TMS).


• Experience implementing process, systems, and organizational changes.