Job Purpose and ImpactThe Cargill Risk Management Group Counsel will serve as the senior commercial legal advisor for Cargill's regulated swap dealer business, Cargill Risk Management ("CRM"), providing strategic legal counsel, risk-calibrated guidance, and practical business solutions across a complex global commercial portfolio. The Senior Advisor, Commercial Law job provides expert consultative guidance and advanced legal counsel on complex commercial transactions and material legal matters that influence business strategy across regions and functions. As a recognized subject matter expert internally and externally, this job guides senior leaders, provides insight on risk and reward calibration to enable business opportunities, supports deal structuring and compliant execution, informs responses to emerging risks and helps build commercial legal approaches.
Key Accountabilities- RISK CALIBRATION & ISSUE MANAGEMENT: Provides insight on business wide legal risk calibration for complex commercial initiatives assessing alignment with legal requirements and governance standards, informing application of holistic risk calibration frameworks and evaluating implications relative to business strategy and market dynamics to advise on the resolution of significant issues.
- BUSINESS PARTNERING & BIAS TO ACTION: Serves as a strategic and trusted legal advisor to CRM senior leaders, translating complex legal considerations into practical, risk-calibrated counsel that supports business priorities, commercial execution, enterprise objectives and risk informed decision making.
- TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT: Advises on and guides complex commercial, financial and derivative trading matters, including customer and supplier contracting, strategic financial and derivative transactions, regulatory and compliance considerations, dispute avoidance, governance and other legal issues affecting the CRM business.
- RISK MONITORING & ADVISORY: Proactively identifies, assesses and manages systemic and emerging legal risks across the CRM portfolio, including risks arising from market volatility, supply chains, regulatory developments, customer relationships and cross-border operations, and inform consistent, risk-calibrated approaches.
- CROSS FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION: Collaborates across global legal teams and functions to support risk calibration, interpretation of requirements, sharing of practices and aligned execution to enable business success.
- TECHNOLOGY & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Guides the application of technology and generative artificial intelligence tools to improve legal analysis, efficiency and execution while supporting compliance and governance standards.
- OUTSIDE COUNSEL MANAGEMENT: Guides the engagement of external counsel by advising on capabilities, supporting alignment with internal expectations, providing input on performance and cost discipline and partnering with law colleagues to enable use of expertise.
QualificationsRequired: - Minimum requirement of 8 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 12 years or more of relevant experience.
- Experience providing commerical, financial or derivative trading legal advice in complex business, corporate, law firm or multinational environments.
