Specialist, Sales & Contract Operations
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.
Cargill is 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.
This position is in Cargill’s food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Specialist, Sales & Contract Operations will be responsible for the coordination of pricing and contracting activities for all customers. In this role, you will support process implementations and governance across contracts, pricing, contracted volume and futures, assist with complex price builds for top customers and handle master data stewardship, contract settlement and daily communications with sales account managers, strategic pricing and customers.
Key Accountabilities
- Calculate and handle contract pricing requests based on customer supply agreements and spot market prices and enter quotes and opportunities into the database.
- Track contract performance and ensure customers, sales and trading are in compliance with trading requirements.
- Execute the new customer set up processes and maintain customer master data to ensure accurate and timely invoicing to customers.
- Apply correct contracts to open customer sales orders and partner with relevant stakeholder to resolve unclear points in the contracts and coordinate with the responsible departments to find solution.
- Handle the settlement of all contracts including rolling balances to correct trade month, amendments and any reconciliation for customer account statements necessary to support both internal and external customers.
- Handle the complex customer sample process, validate operator agreements for compliance and entry into the appropriate database.
- Actively identify improvement opportunities and develop solutions including utilizing the root cause analysis process.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.
- Experienced in effectively representing the business from a commercial perspective to customers
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the production or manufacturing industry
Position Information
- Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
- This position is hybrid and requires to be on site based on business need.
- This position is located in Gainesville, GA
- This posting will expire on May 2nd, 2025
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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