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Technology Lead Pet, Global

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Job ID 306317 Date posted 04/01/2025 Location : Mexico City, Mexico

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers. 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Technical Lead, Pet supports a multi-cultural global team to execute global priorities.  We seek an experienced professional who will identify and execute new business development projects and lead, prioritize and report on the portfolio of new business development projects.  In this role, you will drive process improvements supporting tools and metrics.

Key Accountabilities

  • Support global teams on nutrition, formulation, new offering development (portfolio, positioning, and differentiation of product offerings and technical support).

  • Develop strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

  • Collaborate with technical, formulation, sales and marketing leaders from the different markets to define priorities and identify opportunities.

  • Collaborate with R&D teams to translate scientific discoveries into market-ready products.

  • Promote integration of Cargill ingredients in new offering development

  • Develop training resources to provide guidance to the wider technical community to improve our value creation and sales effectiveness.

  • Support implementation of new global product concepts and claim development for finished products.

  • Provide technical guidance and facilitate palatability and digestibility trials.

  • Support market specific regulatory discussions.

  • Develop and maintain the community of pet technical experts within Cargill

  • You will serve as an expert in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues/problems.  You may provide direction to lower-level team members and be a key contributor.

  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in animal nutrition or related degree

  • Six or more years related work experience in Canine and Feline nutrition

  • Knowledge of pet food ingredients and formulation

  • Customer-facing technical service experience

  • Experience presenting technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • Ability to travel globally up to 50%

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master’s or PhD in animal nutrition

  • Ability to converse in a secondary language (English or Mandarin)

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At Cargill, everyone matters and everyone counts. Cargill is committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. As such and in alignment with our Guiding Principles, Cargill's long-standing equal employment opportunity policy prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, family status, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, union affiliation, or any other status protected by law. Cargill also complies with all applicable national and local laws and regulations pertaining to non-discrimination and employment

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