Director, Business Implementation

Cargill; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A global agribusiness company seeks a Business Implementation Director to lead various initiatives in tropical oils. The successful candidate will oversee project management, change management, and stakeholder engagement to enhance business processes. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience, particularly with SAP ERP systems. This position is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with possible business trips across Southeast Asia.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of strong experience in project management.
• Delivered Project Management experience, particularly in finance, supply chain, and commercial.
• ERP Deployment experience, especially with SAP.

Responsibilities

• Lead all business implementation activities across multiple projects and locations.
• Design and operate a data war room for the tropical oils business.
• Build stakeholder engagement strategies for successful execution.

Skills

Project Management

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Data Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Purpose and Impact

The Business Implementation Director will effectively lead all business implementation activities, ensuring processes, data and information are established and streamlines for successful deployment of various new business initiatives.The primary objective is to institutionalize knowledge related to tropical oils across the supply chain, operations, agronomics, and trading intelligence. This involves systematically capturing, storing, and analyzing the insights generated by our operations to create value for both the business and the broader Cargill organization.

This position will partnering with various functions and stakeholders, especially Digital, Technology & Data (DT&D), Process Excellence, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Finance and Manufacturing & Supply Chain (MSC) andalso play a key linking role in enabling our business infrastructure, leading the ERP project execution in tropical oils.

This position will lead all critical path activities such as Planning, Scoping, and Execution across multiple projects and locations. Key elements of Business Implementation include: Change Management, Coaching & Development, Leadership Alignment, Process Governance, Organizational Preparedness, Data Readiness and Technology.

Key Accountabilities

• Design, build and operate a data war room for the tropical oils business (Palm & Copra). The driver of change to accelerate data maturity and make recommendations to the business what be the best store within Cargill systems.
• Work in cooperation and partnership with DT&D, FP&A, Digital Labs and CASC Digital team to identify, leverage and rapidly implement data analytics capabilities across the business.
• Lead data project management to ensure they are delivered on time, within budget and that achieve expected results and Ensure organizational readiness is effective for the project.
• Coaching, Development & Change Management, Oversee capability build of the business project or change leads, including setting up of local Change Agent Network as appropriate.
• Manages implementation of organizational and business readiness tools/approach
• Proven ability to capture business requirements from key stakeholders and to embrace and drive change in the organization.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to ensure successful execution.
• Prepare and drive the business to change both how work gets done and what talent is needed to sustain the change.
• Lead the project review process by providing stakeholders relevant information to evaluate progress and agree on change and coordinate the deployment of project resources to ensure effective utilization.

Qualifications Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Delivered Project Management experience, well knowlegde and practical especially in finance, supply chain, commercial and purchasing as well (all that become the modules of SAP).
• Change management.
• ERP Deployment experience (especially SAP).
• Willing to be based in CTO location.
• Willing to do business trip or travelling accross Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines.
• Minimum of 6 years of strong experience in project management.
• Stakeholder Management

Preferred Qualifications

• Could speak Bahasa/Melayu since most of our business location in Indonesia.
• Confirmed results based execution on medium or large scale initiatives
• Experience leading enterprise resource planning deployment projects