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Trading Portfolio Lead

Apply NowSave JobRemove JobJob ID 145608Date posted 08.11.2021Location : London, United Kingdom | Mechelen, Belgium | Schiphol, Netherlands | Geneva, Switzerland

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Trading Portfolio Lead will serve as a leaders' counselor, directing, advising and making decisions on information technology activities for a team, with a large and complex portfolio of global solutions and services. We seek a professional to lead and direct professionals and indirect staff, for processes, data and solutions.

This position guides the strategy and governance of the services within the portfolio.  Focused on setting and achieving target architecture aligned to business outcomes, overseeing successful delivery and support models for global platforms, and accountable for management of strategy, investments and run financials for our assets in the portfolio. 

Preferred location:

Geneva (primary), Schipol, Mechelen, London

Key Accountabilities

• Review and approve the prioritized list of projects within a portfolio of projects.


• Provide thought leadership and direction to govern and monitor integration across processes, technology, and data.


• Provide thought leadership and direction to develop the Portfolio strategy for a subset of our organization.


• Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management activities for direct reports and their teams, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training and budgeting. 


• Ensure vendor strategy and financial management of the portfolio


• Other duties as assigned
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience


• Minimum of eight years of related work experience, five years of supervisory experience


• Experience in development and management of trading technology strategy and roadmaps


• Strong trade expertise / industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in managing applications


• Proven experience leading, developing and influencing teams in a global, matrixed, leveraged organization


• Ability to manage strategic vendor relationships


• Ability to negotiate and/or provide strategic oversight over contracts with deal sizes of $10M+


• Ability to lead strategy development and effectively convert strategy into execution


• Strong system thinking capability, collaboration and influencing skills


• Master’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  

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.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:  
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