Associate, Sales & Contract Operations (Open to Remote)
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. They operate at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make, and deliver vital products. This position is within Cargill's Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products, including poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate. The Associate, Sales & Contract Operations, will apply basic knowledge of pricing and contracting activities to assist in the coordination of process implementations and governance across contracts, pricing, and contracted volume and futures. This role involves assisting with master data stewardship, contract settlement, and communications with sales account managers, strategic pricing, and customers, supporting various business segments such as edible oils, sweeteners, cocoa, protein, and salt.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Experience ensuring data in internal systems is accurate and up to date
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Nice To Haves
- Experience in complex multinational or matrixed organization
- Experience with Salesforce or a similar CRM system
- SAP experience
- Ability to effectively represent the business from a commercial perspective to customers
Responsibilities
- Apply basic knowledge and assist to calculate and handle contract pricing requests based on customer supply agreements and spot market prices and validate quotes and opportunities for database entry.
- Assist to validate contract performance to ensure customers, sales and trading are in compliance with trading requirements.
- Assist with the new customer set up processes and validate customer master data to be entered to ensure accurate and timely invoicing to customers.
- Assist with contract alignment to customer sales orders and partner with the team to ensure contract clarity to help resolve unclear points in the contracts.
- Assist in the settlement of contracts for customer account statements to support both internal and external customers.
- Handle the less complex customer sample process, validate operator agreements for compliance and entry into the appropriate database.
- Develop knowledge of the contract management processes to assist in the identification of improvement opportunities and assist with solution development utilizing the root cause analysis process.
- Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
