Advisor, Product Management (Hybrid)

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 Advisor Product Management job provides thought leadership in the development and implementation of technology and data products and solutions in service of user, company and customer objectives. As a recognized subject matter expert in the field, this job mentor’s product managers and others in the organization providing advice on strategy development, visioning and discovery efforts, ensuring value is delivered by the portfolio in service of user, company and customer objectives. This job partners closely with internal and external partners and plays a strategic role encouraging multiple teams to continuously improve processes and procedures.

Key Accountabilities

• Handles the backlog of requests to identify strategic product and process requests that will be implemented by product development teams.
• Leads efforts to improve communications with business and functions partners across the company to uncover business needs and deliver efficient solutions.
• Develops and implements minimum viable product and product increments to deliver capabilities in alignment to the business value providing effective end user value and process improvement.
• Provides thought leadership on scalability and global implementation of product and process capabilities to product leaders across the regions and leads the coordinated operation improvement.
• Advises and influences the leadership team and multiple partners on the enterprise or group business operations.
• Builds and sustains processes of related products to ensure an effective, efficient and competitive plant organization and operations footprint that enable the short- and long-term performance objectives of the business.
• Plays a key role in environmental contributions and sustainability goals of the organization while fostering the implementation and visibility of standard methodologies, processes and continuous improvement related to the product across the enterprise or group.
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience leading and managing complex and large-scale projects or programs, preferably in a product-led or agile environment.
• Proven track record of delivering successful outcomes and value through product and agile transformation, in a large and diverse organization preferred.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire people at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity.
• Highly adaptable, flexible, and resilient, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.