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 animal nutrition and health business, where we improve animal lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.
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Job Purpose and Impact
The Technical Lead, Pet supports a multi-cultural global team to execute global priorities. We seek an experienced professional who will identify and execute new business development projects and lead, prioritize and report on the portfolio of new business development projects. In this role, you will drive process improvements supporting tools and metrics.
Key Accountabilities
- Support global teams on nutrition, formulation, new offering development (portfolio, positioning, and differentiation of product offerings and technical support).
- Develop strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with technical, formulation, sales and marketing leaders from the different markets to define priorities and identify opportunities.
- Collaborate with R&D teams to translate scientific discoveries into market-ready products.
- Promote integration of Cargill ingredients in new offering development
- Develop training resources to provide guidance to the wider technical community to improve our value creation and sales effectiveness.
- Support implementation of new global product concepts and claim development for finished products.
- Provide technical guidance and facilitate palatability and digestibility trials.
- Support market specific regulatory discussions.
- Develop and maintain the community of pet technical experts within Cargill
- You will serve as an expert in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues/problems. You may provide direction to lower-level team members and be a key contributor.
- Other duties as assigned.
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Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in animal nutrition or related degree
- Six or more years related work experience in Canine and Feline nutrition
- Knowledge of pet food ingredients and formulation
- Customer-facing technical service experience
- Experience presenting technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to travel globally up to 50%
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's or PhD in animal nutrition
- Ability to converse in a secondary language (Spanish or Mandarin)
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.