NA Chemicals and Ingredients Category Lead

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 The NA Chemicals and Ingredients Category Lead will handle the development and implementation of category strategies and will identify, create and capture value from competitive advantages emerging from the company's global scale and market insights. In this role, you will achieve established targets for the category, provide strategic direction to sourcing teams and supplier partners, and support the execution of category strategies. You will be an essential partner in the development of insights that link together value creation and deploy and assess local commercial viability. Key Accountabilities Synthesize technical, economic and global market drivers across Chemicals & Ingredients, build strong business partnership, understand competitive dynamics and develop deep regional category and Ingredients expertise aligned with customer innovation, culinary and nutritional solutions. Partner across Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, FSQR, Manufacturing Technology, Natural Resources, Commercial, Finance, and Sustainability to advance food safety, operational reliability, sustainability, supply resiliency and cost competitiveness. Develop and execute multi-year category strategies across complex Chemicals & Ingredients subcategories, leveraging business leading market positions to create competitive advantage and drive supplier-enabled innovation, strategic supplier relationships, market intelligence, and value-creation roadmaps. Align with regional risk, sourcing and business leadership to develop a multifaceted regional category strategy that optimizes business value, manage risk and strengthen long-term competitiveness. Communicate global market drivers and local feedback and incorporate it into regional businesses to ensure long term local competitiveness of regional businesses. Communicate detailed market intelligence with appropriate audiences to support our commercial approach in accordance with the customer segment, competitive positioning and market trends. Lead regional category initiatives and convert strategy into measurable results through strong governance, stakeholder sponsorship, disciplined execution and appropriate value-capture mechanisms; measure and report realized value creation. Evaluate and deploy chemical and ingredients improvement actions and lead the transition of chemical and ingredients technology and category strategy with local formulation and supply chain teams. Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff. Other duties as assigned. Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience Minimum of four years of related work experience Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to identify business needs and translate them into strategic initiatives Experience developing and executing multi-year category, business, or commercial strategies. Able to travel occasionally based on business needs PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience in purchasing and supply chain Experience with customer segmentation and pricing strategy Experience in chemicals, ingredients, process engineering, chemical manufacturing, or related technical categories Experience utilizing market intelligence and supply demand fundamentals…

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