Team Lead - Trade Contracts
- Mohali, Punjab
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support and share insight on the Budget planning.
- Monitor Daily contract entry and issuance meet Global KPIs, across all value chains on a daily basis.
- Ensure global projects like CLM, DocuSign and SENDA are successfully managed, rolled out and implemented in the team. • Ability to impart domain knowledge to the team to build a pool of subject matter experts (SMEs).
- Handle and resolve critical issues and propose solutions.
- Provide support in process transitions and work on process stabilization, have well defined control process, SOPs and KPIs.
- Lead and provide guidance to the team to effectively communicate and handle all day-to-day operational related activities with various stakeholders.
- Handle succession planning, identify training needs and work on resource development to build a self-reliant and efficient team.
- Liaison with legal and compliance on critical issues that require special attention/exceptions and ensure timely resolution.
- Accountable for tracking performance and driving best in class KPIs.
- Review of third party issued contracts to ensure Bunge risk is well covered.
- Ensure document retention in accordance with Company's policies and procedure requirements.
- Perform Month End Checks for Team and ensure accounting queries are resolved within the agreed deadline
- Work in coherence to achieve self and team goals.
- Preparing monthly reports and scorecards.
- Manage work allocation and leaves plan of the team.
- Ensure Control mechanism, compliance checks are always in place. • Ensuring SOX and other statutory requirements are met and clean audit reports.
- Ensuring close coordination with team to have smooth closure of month end activities.
- Identify and propose ways of process improvement as per Industry leading practices.
- Help in designing of the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool as per Organization requirement.
- Manage change in CLM and ensure new changes are implemented.
- Lead User Accessibility Testing (UAT).
- Handle exceptions generated, perform root cause analysis to resolve current issues and act proactively to avert potential issues in future
- Provide guidance and support to the team, knowledge sharing and best practices for talent optimization and retention.
- Relevant experience in handling entry and issuance of commodity contracts for bulk and container shipments of Agri-commodities, with good knowledge of GAFTA, FOSFA contracts' rules.
- Good knowledge of concepts and procedures related to contract life cycle of commodity contracts and execution, related terms & guidelines, including expertise in Incoterms, logistics and shipping documents.
- Ability to work independently, efficiently and deliver high quality output under time pressure • Experience in managing people and processes through a sustained period of change
- Strong written & oral communications skills in English. Knowledge of any other foreign languages will be an added advantage
- Computer proficient and competency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).
- Experience in working with SAP system.