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The Associate Application Developer supports application configuration, development, and deployment, collaborating with teams to align configurations with project goals and manage user requests.
Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.
Job Purpose and Impact
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.
Job Purpose and Impact
- The Associate Application Developer - Food s a key contributor of the Digital Technology and Data team, working closely with Digital Marketers, Brand and Insights professionals. This role will be an active part of configuring and developing applications that align to our go-to-market strategies.
Key Accountabilities
- APPLICATION CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT: Maintains routine application configurations to meet user and business requirements while supporting development of improvements to standard and basic application support processes and procedures.
- APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT: Supports the execution of programming, configuration, testing and deployment of fixes or updates for application version releases.
- USER COMMUNICATION & SUPPORT: Maintains effective communication channel with users and responds to standard and routine application support requests and needs.
- APPLICATION SUPPORT: Conducts basic and less complex application support activities to deliver on business outcomes.
- STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Collaborates with multi-functional teams, including developers, product managers and business partners to help ensure configurations align with project goals.
- INCIDENT & REQUEST MANAGEMENT: Analyzes assigned incident tickets and user requests.
- VENDOR MANAGEMENT: Performs supporting activities to assist with software vendors relationships and contracts.
Qualifications
- No minimum years of relevant experience required. Typically reflects 2 years or more of relevant experience.
- Experience in at least one of the following areas with a strong ability and desire to learn:
- Marketing Automation including email, SMS, 1st party data capture, preference management, privacy, and consent
- PXM/PIM in B2B2C or B2C
- Performance Marketing including measurement strategy
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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