Advisor, Product Management
About The Position
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well. This position is in our Ag & Trading enterprise, where we connect producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe through origination, trading, processing, and distribution. We also offer a range of farmer services and risk management solutions. 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 mentors product managers and others in the organization providing advise 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.
Requirements
- Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.
- Clear understanding of Agile values, frameworks, metrics, and Scrum methodologies.
- Experience using JIRA for backlog and sprint management.
- Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous or technical requirements into actionable components.
- Experience leading communication and change across diverse stakeholder groups
- Ability to excel in a distributed work environment, initiating clarifying conversations and navigating objections to ensure alignment.
Nice To Haves
- Strong comfort using AI tools to support analysis, planning, requirement development, or communication.
Responsibilities
- BACKLOG MANAGEMENT: Handles the backlog of requests to identify strategic product and process requests that will be implemented by product development teams.
- PARTNERS COMMUNICATION: Leads efforts to improve communications with business and functions partners across the company to uncover business needs and deliver efficient solutions.
- PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: 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.
- SCALABILITY & GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION: 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.
- LEADERSHIP ADVISORY: Advises and influences the leadership team and multiple partners on the enterprise or group business operations.
- PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & SUSTAINABILITY: 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.
- ENVIRONMENTAL & SUSTAINABILITY CONTRIBUTIONS: 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.
Benefits
- At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellness to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
