Origination Coordinator
AI summary
Cargill is hiring an Origination Coordinator in Nairobi to manage a moderately complex supplier base and execute grain and oilseed transactions across Kenya and East Africa. The role involves buying and selling commodities, processing contracts in the ERP system, and collaborating with logistics, quality, and finance teams. Candidates need a bachelor's degree and at least four years of relevant experience.
- Full-time role with a clear grain origination and trading focus
- Requires BA/BSc/HND and minimum 4 years experience
- Based in Nairobi within Cargill's Kenya operations
- Involves contract management, supplier engagement, and cross-team coordination
- Cargill explicitly warns applicants never to pay for notarisation, certificates, or assessments
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- Required4+ years of relevant experienceThe job post includes a minimum experience signal.
- RequiredEducation or certification mentioned in the postThe captured text mentions education, a diploma, certificate, or licence.
- PreferredPractical evidence in sales, restaurante, financeThe tags and summary point to skills connected with this role.
- RequiredAvailability to work in NairobiThe vacancy is associated with this location.
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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 ...
Origination Coordinator
Job Type: Full Time
Qualifications
BA/BSc/HND
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness, Sales, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Commerce or related field.
Minimum of four years of related work experience.
Proficiency in data analytics and AI fluency.
Flexibility to work outside an assigned workstation in Eldoret and to travel within the East Africa region.
Valid and clean Kenyan driving license.
Other minimum qualifications may apply.
Key Behaviors
Effectively build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
Make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Skills and experiences to be gained
Experience performing complex merchandising work in a global organization.
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Experience
4 years
Location: Nairobi
Job Field: Procurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain
Job Purpose and Impact
Cargill Ag and Trading in Kenya is involved in the origination and sale of grains and oilseeds including maize, wheat, soybeans, and soybean meal, among others, within Kenya and the wider East Africa. The Origination Coordinator will handle a moderately complex supplier base and fulfill transactions delivering commodities that meet production requirements and specifications in terms of timing, volume, quantity and cost. In this role, you will buy and sell commodities from and to country elevators, producers, feed mills and processors.
Key Accountabilities
- Collaborate with transportation and logistics, quality assurance, customer managers and finance teams to ensure efficient execution.
- Plan purchases and transportation to maximize profitable use of stock and storage facilities.
- Collaborate with transport and logistics to research and analyze various freight opportunities in the marketplace to maximize margin.
- Work directly with customers, suppliers and business counterparts to meet their needs in solving routine problems and addressing complaints and concerns.
- Enter routine data and run specialty reports from our contract management databases and systems.
- Responsible for accurate processing of sales and purchase contracts into the enterprise resource planning system for multiple sites.
- Check and solve problems when facing unclear points in the contracts by contacting the responsible departments to find solution.
- Process sales and purchase contract amendments in the system based on input received from the sales, trade and supply chain teams after validating possible impact and consequences.
- Support merchandising by alignment on intercompany sales and purchase book.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned.