Team Lead - Contract Admin

Business Title: Associate Manager/Team lead - Trade Contract       
Reports to (position): Contracts Lead -Mohali     
Global Function: Global Trade Execution     Global Department: Global Trade Execution            
        
Role Purpose Statement (Write a brief statement regarding the objective of the position and why it exists):

Bunge Limited (www.bunge.com, NYSE: BG) is a leading global agribusiness and food company operating in over 40 countries with approximately 35,000 employees. Bunge buys, sells, stores and transports oilseeds and grains to serve customers worldwide; processes oilseeds to make protein meal for animal feed and edible oil products for commercial customers and consumers; produces sugar and ethanol from sugarcane; mills wheat, corn and rice to make ingredients used by food companies; and sells fertilizer in South America. Founded in 1818, the company is headquartered in White Plains, New York. Bunge has implemented a Shared Services Center in Mohali, India to support Global Operations in areas of Finance & Accounting, Trade Operations, Treasury and IT Support and other back office support Services

Associate Manager will be responsible for full operational control and end-to-end contract entry and issuance activities. He is responsible for People management encompassing the end-to-end processes of talent acquisition, talent optimization, and talent retention while providing continued support for the business and guidance for the employees of an organization . Able to champion the work load distribution to efficiently deliver the Global KPI’s of Trade Contract. This role requires end to end visibility of Commodity value chains to holistically define/change the operation model as and when required. 

Main Accountabilities (List 6-8 major areas of responsibilities in order of importance, and purpose of these activities:

•    Support and share insight on the Budget planning.
•    Monitor Daily contract entry and issuance meet Global KPIs, across all value chains on a daily basis.
•    Ensure global projects like CLM, DocuSign and SENDA are successfully managed, rolled out and implemented in the team.
•    Ability to impart domain knowledge to the team to build a pool of subject matter experts (SMEs). 
•    Handle and resolve critical issues and propose solutions.
•    Provide support in process transitions and work on process stabilization, have well defined control process, SOPs and KPIs.
•    Lead and provide guidance to the team to effectively communicate and handle all day-to-day operational related activities with various stakeholders.
•    Handle succession planning, identify training needs and work on resource development to build a self-reliant and efficient team.
•    Liaison with legal and compliance on critical issues that require special attention/exceptions and ensure timely resolution. 
•    Accountable for tracking performance and driving best in class KPIs.
•    Review of third party issued contracts to ensure Bunge risk is well covered.
•    Ensure document retention in accordance with Company’s policies and procedure requirements.
•    Perform Month End Checks for Team and ensure accounting queries are resolved within the agreed deadline 
•    Work in coherence to achieve self and team goals.

Additional responsibilities:

•    Preparing monthly reports and scorecards.
•    Manage work allocation and leaves plan of the team.   
•    Ensure Control mechanism, compliance checks are always in place.
•    Ensuring SOX and other statutory requirements are met and clean audit reports. 
•    Ensuring close coordination with team to have smooth closure of month end activities.
•    Identify and propose ways of process improvement as per Industry leading practices.
•    Help in designing of the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool as per Organization requirement.
•    Manage change in CLM and ensure new changes are implemented.
•    Lead User Accessibility Testing (UAT).
•    Handle exceptions generated, perform root cause analysis to resolve current issues and act proactively to avert potential issues in future
•    Provide guidance and support to the team, knowledge sharing and best practices for talent optimization and retention.

Impact/Dimensions (Describe the strategic impact of the role / Using dollars and/or numbers, list the pertinent statistics of the position which clarify major areas of impact.  Examples are: # of employees supervised, annual budget, annual sales/revenue):

•    Responsible for ensuring best in class KPIs for +45,000 transactions in SAP and +7000 Agri contracts issued annually and for improving the overall contract life cycle across all value chains.
•    Manage & Ensure Timely delivery on the Audit/Sox Queries for Bunge .
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