Job Purpose and Impact

The CBS PPMO (Cargill Business Services - Portfolio & Project Management Office) Practice refers to Service lines offered by CBS PPMO team. Examples of the Practice include, but are notlimited to Mergers Acquisition Divestiture Joint Venture (MADJV) Implementation, PPM Consulting and Advisory, Project Management, Portfolio Management, and Process Consulting. The CBS PPMO Practice Lead will play a few key roles in standing up and maturing the CBS PPMO’s Practices. This position’s primarily focus area is in Portfolio Management Practice and PPM Consulting and Advisory Practice.

This position will be responsible for owning and improving the value proposition of the PPMO practices with thought leadership, bringing outside in and maturing the overall capability by strengthening the framework, driving adoption and implementation. You will serve as the main point of contact for the global and regional PPMO teams for Practice implementation, coaching, as a subject matter authority, nurturing the culture of learning, driving delivery excellence and continuous improvement.

This position will partner with CBS regional PPMO leaders and CBS Portfolio management team to prioritize resources, measure progress and drive accountability and a sense of urgency in the business to provide cross regional leadership for the Practice line and ensure consistent operationalization of processes.

This position makes impact in following areas

• The Subject Matter Expert who leads in defining the practice strategy, operationalization ofe2e processes via the PPMO Service Catalogue and Playbook for the Practice.
• The Practice Implementation Lead will drive the efforts of creating CBS Portfolio Management Service and PPM Consulting and Advisory Services and drive continuous improvement for the Practice post stabilization.
• This position serves as the strategic partner to the CBS PPMO Portfolio Management Lead who is accountable for Portfolio Management service delivery in developing long-term demand pipeline and providing consistent visibility of the service portfolios for services lines of Portfolio Management and PPM C&A.
• Partners with the relevant PPMO service delivery leaders in leading the development and deployment of the talent strategy and capability building strategy for the practices.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with the business leadership team to define program objectives to shape the roadmap of transformation initiatives and prioritize based on strategic, financial and organizational criteria, driving action to ensure established goals are met.
• Champion change and drive processimprovementby creating efficiencies,agility, and measuredrisk taking.
• Understand strategy and supporting projects in order to recommend resource prioritization that advances the business to its strategy and performance goals.
• Facilitate strategic prioritization reviews with senior leaders, ensuring tradeoffs are understood and appropriate decisions are made.
• Create and lead a cross functional team to deploy, execute and govern portfolio processes across the business and facilitate informative and actionable portfolio reviews across the group to remove impediments and prioritize opportunities.
• Responsible for the deployment and continuous improvement of portfolio and project management and accelerated continuous improvement practices aligned with company standard framework and guidelines.
• Provide expert consultative guidance for initiating strategic long-range goals and objectives. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
• Directly leads some of PPM C&A practice delivery for global capabilities such as Agile Coaching, PPM super users.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• In-depth knowledge of project management methodology, project delivery process and portfolio management
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams providing leadership, coaching and mentorship to all levels of the organization
• Confirmed experience influencing senior leaders and moving projects forward
• Minimum of eight years of related work experience
• Leadthe e2e portfolio management (creating and managing); working in matrix organization with diverse and inclusive mind-set; in-depth financial management knowledge and skills

PreferredQualifications

• Experience managing large complex portfolios for large Multi-National Companies is preferred
• Master’s degree or equivalent
• Experience in PPM Consulting as Senior service provider,leading the establishment of new capabilities such as Portfolio Management.
• Lead or play a key role on Portfolio Review Team.
• Experience as a Process Owner for portfolio management
• Effective communication and change management, strong influencing capabilities
• Strategic and systematic thinking

Cargill highly encourages vaccinations but does not mandate at this time. Upon hire, you will be asked to provide your vaccination status, and if unvaccinated or if you choose not to disclose, you would be expected to follow Cargill’s safety protocols for unvaccinated employees (i.e., mask mandates, and social distancing).

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.