Senior Director, Digital Technology & Data - Food, Pricing

Cargill • Wayzata, MN

75d • $173,000 - $235,000

About The Position

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. We are 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. The Senior Director, Digital Technology & Data - Food, Pricing job owns the execution of the digital technology strategy in alignment with the overall enterprise strategy and functional direction while also considering the needs of the markets and industries served by the business group. This job provides strategic thought and product leadership, guiding how pricing technology can evolve and transform the business to better serve customers and consumers, ensures that the investment portfolio balances the demands of digital core modernization with bold, innovative choices and identifies opportunities to drive the utilization and adoption of standard technology solutions. This job also conducts comprehensive reviews of status measures with the business, identifying and managing key dependencies that could impact the successful execution of the strategy and associated value creation.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• Provides technical model and product leadership in building the strategic roadmap for portfolio and directs the development and implementation of the strategy for a business area or significant function.
• Partners within matrixed functional team to align and realize data management strategies while encouraging good partnering and cross functional collaboration across technology teams.
• Gathers input and influences business leaders to develop the short to long term digital technology strategy, shaping the future needs for the business.
• Develops risk models involving market, credit and operational risk to ensure controls are operating effectively.
• Partners closely with wider business, function and technology teams to develop value based technology roadmap that aligns to business objective and budget.
• Identifies and evaluates innovative opportunities to drive the use and adoption of standard technology solutions.
• Manages relationships with external vendors to ensure alignment with business objectives, compliance of service level agreements and successful execution of technology strategies.
• Manages global team members to achieve the organization's goals, ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable.

Benefits

• Medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked.
• Discretionary incentive award based on company performance and personal performance.
• Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Food Manufacturing