Commercial Support Team Lead - Employment,career opportunity in Canada

Job Title:  Commercial Support Team Lead
Location: - (Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Prairies Canada, Canada)
Company: Bunge
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Years Experience Required: N/A
Salary: Competitive



Founded in 1818, Bunge is a leading agribusiness and food company with integrated operations that circle the globe, stretching from the farm field to the retail shelf. Bunge has 35,000 employees at more than 400 facilities in 40 countries.  

Bunge’s North American operations supply raw and processed agricultural commodities and specialized food ingredients to a wide range of customers in the animal feed, food processor, foodservice and bakery industries.  With headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, Bunge North America and its subsidiaries operate grain elevators, oilseed processing plants, edible oil refineries and packaging facilities, and corn, wheat and rice mills in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Overview:
Reporting to the Plant Admin Supervisor, the Commercial Support Specialist Team Lead provides key support activities to OPD plants with local commercial activities such as local oilseed origination, truck meal sales, and plant logistics coordination.  These support roles perform duties such as commodity purchase settlements, preparation of load orders for products,  seed inventory position verifications, logistics coordination, and providing service to producers that advance Bunge’s customer/farmer focus.  As Team Lead, this role supervises the Commercial Support Specialists and other plant administrative roles.

Essential Functions:
•  The Team Lead supervises the Commercial Support Specialists and other plant administrative roles and acts as a liaison to the Plant Admin Supervisor.
•  Ensure that all plant commodity purchases and receipts are properly controlled, applied, and settled per the producer’s intentions.
•  Manage and control local commodity related expenses such as truck freight, contract cancellations, and other commercial transactions.
•  Support the commercial activity with commodity inventory management, scheduling of seed receipts, and other local plant logistics.
•  Perform local commodity position verifications and key SOX and internal controls as defined.
•  Support the production admin. supervisor with daily reporting of production, inventories, and plant KPR’s.
•  Assist Financial Shared Services with follow-up on AR collections and disputes.
•  Assist the office admin. supervisor with local office support functions such as office equipment, supplies, and local administration of IT infrastructure (server back-ups, PC Rotations program, time keeping, and voice systems).
•  Facilitate financial balance sheet reconciliations with the Oakville accounting function for items such as advances, deferred payments, and other commercial related activity.
•  Coordinate the gathering of documentation requested by various internal/external audit and SOX activities mainly around commercial activities.
•  Assist with special projects, as required.

Qualifications/Skill Requirements:
•  High school or an equivalent GED required.
•  2-5 years of related administration and/or accounting experience.
•  Experience or exposure to agribusiness activities and transactions.
•  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
•  Ability to work in a team and collaborative environment.
•  Exposure to using enterprise business applications such as SAP-GTM, SAP Business Warehouse, or comparable commodity or ERP system.
•  Strong end user computing skills e.g. MS Excel, Word. Lotus Notes.
•  Versatility, flexibility, and analytical skills are essential.
•  Must be able to work overtime, as required.


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