Title:  IT Project Manager (Business Applications)

Job Purpose and Impact

The Project Manager supports the Digital Technology and Data (DT&D) team for Cargill’s Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH) business across the EMEAI & Global Salmon region. The role’s immediate priority will be to lead the portfolio of projects supporting Cargill’s regional SAP S/4HANA deployment, coordinating work across all business applications affected by the program. The role leads planning and delivery of cross-functional digital and technology projects in support of regional business priorities. It translates agreed priorities into integrated plans, coordinates teams across countries and time zones within the region, and manages scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, dependencies, and quality. It partners with regional business stakeholders, country teams, product and application owners, technical teams, and vendors to deliver outcomes with clear governance and timely visibility.

This is a temporary replacement role with an expected duration of up to 2 years. We offer a hybrid working model following the onboarding period.

Key Accountabilities

• PROJECT PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE: Define project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, decision rights, and governance. Build and maintain integrated plans that connect workstreams, dependencies, resource needs, and business outcomes.
• CROSS-COUNTRY DELIVERY: Coordinate project teams and workstreams across countries within the EMEAI & Global Salmon region, clarify responsibilities, establish working routines, and keep work aligned with approved regional priorities and delivery plans.
• PROJECT CONTROLS AND REPORTING: Monitor progress, schedule, costs, staffing, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and changes. Maintain accurate forecasts and provide concise, timely status reporting for project teams, sponsors, and leadership.
• RISK AND ISSUE MANAGEMENT: Identify obstacles early, assess impact, develop mitigation or recovery actions, and resolve complex issues independently where appropriate. Escalate decisions and risks that require sponsor or leadership direction.
• BUDGET AND RESOURCE COORDINATION: Work with project sponsors, product leaders, workstream owners, and functional managers to plan and track project funding, staffing, and capacity. Recommend corrective actions when delivery is at risk.
• QUALITY AND DELIVERY READINESS: Coordinate requirements, acceptance criteria, quality reviews, testing, cutover, and readiness activities. Ensure project artifacts, decisions, and actions are documented and accessible.
• VENDOR AND PARTNER COORDINATION: Coordinate vendor and partner deliverables, schedules, dependencies, and issue resolution as assigned; communicate performance concerns through the appropriate governance channels.
• STAKEHOLDER COMMUNICATION: Build effective partnerships and tailor communications for regional, country, business, technical, and leadership audiences. Anticipate competing stakeholder needs and make decisions, trade-offs, and impacts clear.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and/or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of four years of related project management experience.
• Experience planning and coordinating complex, cross-functional projects, including schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, and status reporting.
• Ability to organize project teams, clarify accountabilities, manage competing priorities, and deliver through influence across countries within the EMEAI & Global Salmon region.
• Ability to use AI tools effectively and responsibly to increase proficiency and productivity in the role.
• English proficiency, with the ability to communicate clearly in writing and speech with global business users, technical teams, and vendors.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time, as business needs require.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience delivering technology, enterprise application, ERP, manufacturing, or integration projects.
• Experience coordinating projects across countries within the EMEAI & Global Salmon region and working with teams that have different local requirements.
• Experience managing several interdependent initiatives or projects with significant cost, risk, or resource constraints.
• Proficiency in one or more regional languages used across EMEAI & Global Salmon is a plus.

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Benefits

• Private healthcare.
• My Benefits platform.
• Lunch card.
• Life insurance.
• Opportunity to join the Employee Pension Program (PPE).
• Working in an international environment.