Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety Quality and Regulatory CAN Latam South Lead will be a critical member of the Cargill Animal Nutrition business and the leadership team responsible for providing food safety, quality and regulatory leadership for a group of plants in Brazil and Argentina. In this role, you will coordinate and drive the execution of continuous improvements, best practices and consistency of policies and be a solution provider creating value for the business. Key Accountabilities
Ensure strategy execution and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, policies and procedures and analyze, review, interpret and implement policies and procedures, regulations and customer and supplier standards for the enterprise hub or region in a standardized way.
Promote food safety, quality and regulatory culture and brand and be at the forefront of building a high performance, quality culture including setting and meeting clear and decisive goals aligned to business strategies, budget management and controls.
Drive accuracies through effective and standardized risk management and implementation of standards and procedures including quality assurance, laboratory operation and regulatory compliance.
Anticipate risks and proactively take preventative action across multiple business locations and be accountable for the completion of facility audits to identify and control risks.
Drive continuous improvement mindset across the hub, identify and proactively address risks areas to direct opportunity to improve all while ensuring connectivity and collaboration on issue resolution within the matrixed organization.
Support the development of new processes and systems across the region and provide input to the enterprise or business related to base and nonbase capital needs to maintain food, feed and product safety.
Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs. Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Previous experience in Food Safety Quality and Regulatory practices
Previous people supervisory experience
Advanced English is required
Intermediate Spanish is required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Master's degree animal science, food/feed science, biological sciences or related fields
Demonstrated experience with food, feed and health, safety and quality practices and systems
Demonstrated experience in designing business strategy and continuous improvement projects
Advanced understanding of compliance to regulations and requirements
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