Senior Director, Head of Integration Management Office

Cargill • Wayzata, MN

10d • $240,000 - $270,000

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. Job Purpose and Impact The Senior Director, Integration Management Office will lead the global execution of integration, separation, and other strategic portfolio initiatives, ensuring continuity of operations and alignment with business objectives. In this role, you will oversee a team of integration specialists and select, coach and support project leads to deliver effective planning, execution, and measurement across acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, and related actions. You will apply advanced project management practices to anticipate and mitigate risks, optimize resources, and drive cross-functional collaboration across businesses, functions, and corporate teams while partnering early with interested parties to identify and address due diligence, integration, and separation challenges, ensuring smooth transitions, value creation, and strategic impact across the organization. This role reports to the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum requirement of 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Typically reflects 12 years or more of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• 10 years or more of experience leading large integration projects.
• Experience working on integration projects for a large, global, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects across different business, regions and teams.
• Strong communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate across global teams and engage with senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of integration and separation projects, ensuring delivery of strategic objectives through robust planning, coordination, and governance.
• Apply focused project management practices to anticipate, monitor, and mitigate risks, while managing budgets, timelines, and scope across multiple workstreams.
• Ensure effective alignment between business, functional, and regional partners, integrating diverse priorities into cohesive project plans and execution strategies.
• Partner with the critical team in mergers and acquisitions transactions to identify due diligence, integration, and separation issues, providing insights that develop deal strategy and execution readiness.
• Define and track quantitative and qualitative metrics to measure project performance, success, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous enhancement of integration and separation playbooks, embedding standard methodologies and lessons learned from internal and external sources.
• Partner with external consulting firms and internal centers of expertise, evaluating and managing engagements to ensure value creation and knowledge transfer.
• Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management activities for direct reports and their organizations, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training and budgeting.
• You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.
• At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked.
• Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellness to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).
• Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees