Merchant II
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Merchant II job generates value by executing and monitoring merchandising strategies for a specific commodity or market through originating, buying and selling commodities to support target volumes, margins and business performance. With limited supervision, this job 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.
Key Accountabilities
- COMMERCIAL VALUE GENERATION: Implements short term merchandising strategies by originating, buying and selling commodities to optimize margins, achieve target volumes and support business performance for a specific commodity or market.
- COMMODITY POSITION & TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT: Monitors physical positions, contract exposures and lower risk cash positions, including futures hedges, while ensuring transactions meet timing, volume, quality, specification and cost requirements.
- MARKET & SUPPLY DEMAND INSIGHTS: Gathers and analyzes moderately complex supply demand trends, pricing dynamics, logistics constraints, customer requirements, product specifications, sustainability considerations and market movements to support merchandising decisions and opportunities.
- CUSTOMER & SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: Develops and maintains customer, supplier, broker and market participant relationships to support transactional activities, understand customer and supplier needs, find opportunities and bring value.
- MERCHANDISING STRATEGY EXECUTION: Implements and monitors short term merchandising plans for a specific commodity or market, providing ideas and insights to support broader merchandising strategies.
- RISK & EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT: Monitors market, credit, price, volume and operational risks associated with cash positions, futures hedges, contracts and physical flows and escalates or recommends mitigation actions in alignment with business guidelines and risk management expectations.
- CROSS FUNCTIONAL EXECUTION & COLLABORATION: Collaborates with logistics, supply chain, plant operations, finance, pricing, technical, trading, commercial, analytics and operational teams across businesses to support efficient execution of physical flows, contracts and merchandising activities.
- MARKET INTELLIGENCE & INDUSTRY PRESENCE: Engages with market participants and industry networks to gather customer, supplier and market insights to support market intelligence and business opportunities
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Qualifications
Minimum & Typical Years of Work Experience
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Experience
- Merchandising experience
- Agriculture background
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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