Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions. The Advisor, Product Management role focuses on the development and implementation of technology and data products, mentoring product managers, and improving processes to meet user and business objectives.
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
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
- Strong comfort using AI tools to support analysis, planning, requirement development, or communication