CI Specialist Cocoa Materials
Key Skills
Job Description
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 Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Continuous Improvement Specialist Cocoa Materials will develop, implement and sustain process improvement initiatives. In this role, you will conduct continuous improvement activities with low to medium project cost and risk and activities with well defined processes. You will be part of the FSQR Cocoa Materials Hub, which is responsible for food safety and quality of all cocoa beans, cocoa cake and cocoa butter coming into Europe to be further processed in the different Cargill factories.
Key Accountabilities
- Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to senior staff.
- Identify, monitor, and implement continuous improvement best practices.
- Develop and handle continuous improvement plans for projects with low to medium cost and risk in order to reach and sustain project goals.
- Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business requirements.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a related field (Food Technology, Chemistry, Engineering…) or equivalent experience
- Project management experience, preferably Green Belt certification
- Efficient communication
- Can-do mentality with high energy and enthusiasm
- Ability to handle multiple stakeholders in a complex environment
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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Core Responsibilities
The Continuous Improvement Specialist will develop and implement process improvement initiatives within the Cocoa Materials Hub to enhance food safety and quality. They will manage projects with low to medium risk, conduct readiness assessments, and provide regular performance updates to senior staff.
Requirements
Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a related field and at least 2 years of relevant work experience. A master's degree and project management certifications like Green Belt are considered preferred qualifications.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Career development opportunities
About Cargill
Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Cargill is a family company committed to nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. With over 158 years of experience, 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. Whether it’s making alternative proteins for food manufacturers or helping farmers raise healthier animals with AI, we put as much care into how things are sourced as what we provide. We put people first. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.