Senior Director, Culture & Inclusion

cargill•Shorewood, MN

2d•$178,000 - $240,000•Onsite

About The Position

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. This role is based in Wayzata, Minnesota. Job Purpose and Impact The Senior Director, Culture & Inclusion job provides leadership for Cargill’s people agenda by ensuring inclusion is embedded into our culture, talent and learning programs and processes, by designing and deploying culture and voice of employee solutions, by defining and maintaining company-wide partnerships with key external organizations (i.e., advocacy groups, industry associations, etc), by collaborating to deliver company-wide inclusion focused events and experiences, and by supporting and guiding employee business resource groups (BRGs). This job ensures the successful delivery of solutions and projects, supports the upskilling of HR select HR colleagues, and promotes benchmarked standard methodologies within the organization.

Requirements

Minimum requirement of 8 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 12 years or more of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience shaping and advancing enterprise-wide culture and inclusion strategies within a complex, global organization, with clear linkage to business outcomes.
Proven ability to influence senior leaders and enterprise stakeholders to embed inclusive practices, Values, Behaviors and Culture Shifts into day-to-day practices and decision making.
Experience leading and evolving Voice of Employee strategies, including deploying surveys, translating insights into action, and driving measurable improvements in engagement and team effectiveness.
Strong track record of benchmarking externally and managing strategic partnerships that bring innovative inclusion practices and insights into the organization.
Experience establishing and scaling Business Resource Groups (BRGs), including governance, executive sponsor engagement, and alignment to enterprise priorities.
Demonstrated ability to lead across global, matrixed environments, balancing enterprise consistency with regional and cultural relevance.
Proven strength in leveraging data, analytics, and insights to inform strategy, tell a compelling story, and drive adoption of culture and inclusion initiatives.

Responsibilities

Leverages knowledge of and experience in talent, culture and learning processes to recommend practices and approaches that deliver inclusive and equitable outcomes including upskilling HR function.
Provides strategic guidance for and ensures effective deployment of Cargill Values, Behaviors and Culture Shifts.
Oversee evolution of Voice of Employee and High Performing Teams strategies and ensure effective deployment of tools, surveys and playbooks.
Regularly benchmarks Cargill inclusion practices externally, maintains productive relationships across a portfolio of external partners, manages the portfolio ensuring all relationships deliver value for Cargill and its employees.
Contributes to the development and execution of Cargill-wide inclusion events and experiences including speaker engagement, program logistics, efficacy metrics, and continuous improvement.
Provides leadership for Business Resource Groups: Establishes governance and standards across groups, promotes value and membership, supports executive sponsors in execution of their duties , facilitates best practice sharing across groups.
Manages team members to achieve the organization’s goals, by ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.