MADJV Project Manager - Cargill Protein (Open to Remote)

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.

Job Purpose and Impact

The MADJV Project Manager for Cargill Protein North America will drive the execution of integration and separation key projects with focus on business continuity, while maximizing value creation and strategic impact across the company. In this role, you will lead high performing cross-functional teams to plan, execute and measure strategic actions, including acquisition integrations, divestiture separations and other portfolio management initiatives. 

Key Accountabilities

• Lead cross-functional expert teams to develop, execute and implement integration and separation management projects across the company, serving as the PPM point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.
• Be a key resource to the PPM MADJV lead from the enterprise/business group undergoing the transaction and work with them to develop detailed project plans at a program level, while also appropriately bringing together individual plans for each business and function involved with the project.
• Partner with essential teams to identify key due diligence and separation issues for each transaction, early engaging in merger and acquisition activities, as well as with specific centers of expertise, to incorporate their requirements, processes and interdependencies.
• Responsible for maintaining engagement with external consulting firms providing integration and separation management services, as well as asses the external firm project execution if needed.
• Lead and oversee the overall and day to day project management of key project activities (including anticipating, monitoring, management and reporting/escalating key integration/separation issues) to provide periodic updates to the executive team.
• Plan and direct the development of integration budgets, one-time costs, synergies and financial analysis.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of integration and separation management playbooks and specific quantitative and qualitative metrics for each project.
• Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections algin with current and future needs.
• Lead acquisition or divestiture on site for several weeks, from sign to after close.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of six years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management experience
• Multi-division/area experience
• Three years of supervisory experience
• Business, Operations and/or Supply Chain (BOSC) experience
• Confirmed knowledge of integration and separation management areas, deal lifecycle, tools and methods with experience in managing at least one transformation from sign to close, and post-close activities
• Bilingual (Spanish) to support North American deals

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Short Description

The desired location for this position is Wichita, KS, but could be supported remotely within the United States.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet