Merchant II

Cargill • Olathe, KS

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About The Position

The Merchant II executes and monitors merchandising strategies for a specific commodity or market by originating, buying, and selling commodities to support target volumes, margins, and business performance. The role is part of Cargill’s Soy Processing Commercial team, which is primarily responsible for soybean purchases, game plan development, recommending trading and marketing strategies, and overseeing logistics execution for a soy processing plant in Wichita, Kansas.

With limited supervision, the position monitors physical positions, contract exposures, and lower-risk cash positions; gathers and analyzes market, customer, and supplier information; and coordinates with cross-functional and cross-business teams to support efficient execution of physical flows and contracts within defined risk parameters.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of relevant work experience; the posting notes that this typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience understanding grain margins, futures, and basis relationships.
• Basic knowledge of production agriculture and/or livestock feeding.
• Experience discovering and identifying customer needs and building customer relationships.

Responsibilities

• Implement short-term merchandising strategies by originating, buying, and selling commodities to optimize margins, achieve target volumes, and support business performance.
• Monitor physical positions, contract exposures, and lower-risk cash positions, including futures hedges, and ensure transactions meet timing, volume, quality, specification, and cost requirements.
• Gather and analyze supply-and-demand trends, pricing dynamics, logistics constraints, customer requirements, product specifications, sustainability considerations, and market movements to inform merchandising decisions and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers, suppliers, brokers, and market participants to support transactions, understand needs, identify opportunities, and bring value to the Wichita soy processing plant.
• Implement and monitor short-term merchandising plans, contributing ideas and insights to broader merchandising strategies.
• Monitor market, credit, price, volume, and operational risks associated with cash positions, futures hedges, contracts, and physical flows; escalate or recommend mitigation actions in line with business guidelines and risk expectations.
• Collaborate with logistics, supply chain, plant operations, finance, pricing, technical, trading, commercial, analytics, and operational teams to support the execution of physical flows, contracts, and merchandising activities.
• Engage with market participants and industry networks to gather customer, supplier, and market insights that support market intelligence and business opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed