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Cargill

MSC Performance Enablement Lead

On site

Izegem, Belgium

Senior

Full Time

14-09-2025

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Skills

Leadership Training benchmarking Organization Project Management Analytics

Job Specifications

Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.

Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials -- from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

This position is in Cargill's food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

Job Purpose and Impact

The MSC Performance Enablement Lead will focus on production site activities, encompassing both manufacturing and supply chain. The purpose of this role is to maximize our PnL by enabling the team to achieve all performance targets and key performance indicators (KPIs). This role will drive improvements in productivity, efficiency, and reliability across the site, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and performance improvement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Alignment & Execution: Provide strategic direction to improve manufacturing and supply chain performance, developing and refining strategic plans, and leading a cross-functional team. Owning the Annual Operating Planning and Transformation Projects.
Performance Governance: Lead integrated performance review activities related to manufacturing and supply chain, providing insights and guiding leadership to key action plans. Ensures that performance metrics are tracked, analyzed, and reported accurately to drive accountability and effective actions deployment by focused resources.
Value creation portfolio management: Identify and implement process improvements (through internal and external benchmarking) to optimize performance, reduce COGS (both logistics and manufacturing), inventories and enhance efficiency.
Collaboration: Partner with Regional MSC Enablement organization, technology experts, supply chain and manufacturing teams to integrate business planning and drive performance improvement.
Stable Ops and Supply Chain & Training and Development: Ensuring the process adherence. Support the training and development of team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Project Management: Lead improvement project portfolios (created in PISW) to deliver productivity targets using continuous improvement and manufacturing and supply chain excellence tools.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of six years of related work experience in manufacturing and supply chain
Proven track record in continuous improvement and project management
Strong data analytics skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud-based applications and enterprise resource planning systems
Knowledge of lean six sigma concepts and principles
Experience in reliability and asset management
Black Belt certification or willingness to achieve
Knowledge of Dutch is an asset

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:

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About the Company

Cargill is a family company committed to nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. With over 158 years of experience, we sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. Whether it’s making alternative proteins for food manufacturers or helping farmers raise healthier animals with AI, we put as much care into how things are sourced as what we provide. We put people first. We do the right thing—today and for gen... Know more