Smart MSC Regional Product Owner (Open to Remote)

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About the position

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 agricultural supply chain business. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver essential products.

Responsibilities

  • Own product strategy and development, from inception to delivery, identifying business value and end user outcomes including key performance indicators and financial return on investment.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to ensure the goals are clear and aligned with business objectives, utilizing key performance indicators to show progress.
  • Create product roadmaps as a high level, strategic visual summary that outlines the vision and direction for the product offering over time.
  • Create the product backlog items and prioritize them based on the overall strategy and business objectives and map out project dependencies.
  • Drive progress on multiple projects/initiatives in parallel.
  • Build technology solutions and partner collaboratively with other team members in Smart, Data & Analytics and DT&D.
  • Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems.
  • Provide directions to support team members and be a strategic contributor.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Clear understanding of agile values, frameworks and metrics.
  • Solid background on data and analytics with proved experience leading data and technology projects and manipulating data on databases, queries and Excel.
  • Proved experience with manufacturing process control and automation projects.
  • Experience leading change and communication with a large and diverse group of stakeholders.
  • Experience facilitating teams and breaking down business requirements into deliverables.
  • Minimum of four years of related work experience.

Nice-to-haves

  • Project management certification.
  • Agile product owner certification.
  • Experience with Phyton and general coding.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked.
  • Discretionary incentive award based on company performance and personal performance.
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