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  • Posted: Jun 30, 2022
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Cargill in Kenya Cargill has been active in Kenya since 1984 and now has around 300 employees based in Mombasa, Nairobi and Nakuru. Activities in the country include trading in wheat, maize, barley, fertilizers, cotton and engaging in financial markets. In 2014 Cargill acquired Lesiolo Grain Handlers Limited (LGHL), a bulk grain handling company based in ...
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    Merchant

    Key Accountabilities

    • Build lasting relationships with farmers, aggregators, and other traders.
    • Build lasting relationships and networks with flour millers, feed millers and other processors.
    • Collaborate with supply chain, quality assurance, customer managers and credit team to ensure efficient grain and execution.
    • Work closely with OPS and SC to ensure all controls are observed at buying centres.
    • Plan purchases and transportation to maximize origination volume and profitable use of storage facilities.
    • Work closely with other sales merchants to ensure sales budgets (volume and margin) are met.
    • Support collection efforts and ensure no doubtful or bad debts.
    • Ensure all new counterparties provide KYC documents, are fully onboarded and relevant limits in place before concluding business.
    • Ensure all trades limits are in place, renewed annually and that approved limits are not breached.
    • Enter routine data and run specialty reports (daily trading position and Pnl) from our contract management databases and systems MBS.
    • Work directly with suppliers and customer business counterparts to meet their needs in solving routine problems and addressing complaints and concerns.
    • 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 of five years of related work experience.
    • Thorough understanding of the agricultural industry in Kenya as well in-depth knowledge of the production patterns and/or areas. Willingness to travel to various growing regions.
    • Good interpersonal and communication skills both internal and external.

    Key Behaviors

    • Make sense of complex and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
    • Build strong farmer and miller customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
    • Strong analytical and negotiating skills.
    • Effectively build formal and informal relationship/networks inside and outside the organization.
    • Curious and willing to learn beyond the Job Description.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Cargill on careers.cargill.com to apply

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