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 ImpactThe Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy leads work that helps Cargill's senior leaders develop and advance corporate, functional, and business group strategies that create long-term value. This role directs enterprise and portfolio assessments, evaluates market and competitive trends, and guides the identification of strategic opportunities to inform leadership decisions and resource allocation.
The Sr. Director leads the development of strategic insights, recommendations, investment cases, and value creation plans. In partnership with business and functional leaders, the role helps translate strategic priorities into aligned plans and coordinated execution. The role also leads the synthesis of complex analysis into clear recommendations for executive and Board decision making.
Key Accountabilities- STRATEGIC ANALYSIS & SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT: Oversees the structuring of business problems, validates hypotheses, reviews plans for qualitative and quantitative analyses and defines analytical approaches and scenario analyses that inform strategic decisions.
- PORTFOLIO & PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT: Directs assessment of industry structure, business models, key profit drivers, business context and organizational dynamics and guides insights synthesis of key findings to inform strategic priorities and portfolio direction.
- STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS & VALUE CREATION: Owns the development of strategic recommendations to advance identified strategic opportunities, including acquisitions and divestitures, ensuring recommendations are supported by well grounded financial and execution plans, including acquisition gameboards, for value creation.
- STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT & ALIGNMENT: Nurtures engagement with cross functional teams and senior leadership to align priorities, drive coordinated execution and ensure achievement of strategic and operational objectives.
- WORK PLANNING & DELIVERY: Partners collaboratively to establish strategy execution plans, strategic priorities and timelines, aligns resources and ensures successful delivery of insights and recommendations as aligned while advancing team technical capabilities.
- LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION & STRATEGIC SYNTHESIS: Leads development of executive level communications and synthesizes highly complex analyses and recommendations to inform leadership decision making.
- TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organization's goals by allocating resources, ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.
QualificationsMinimum Qualifications - Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, business development, finance, corporate development, or a related strategic function.
- Experience leading complex strategic initiatives and developing recommendations for senior leadership.
- Experience developing business cases, growth strategies, and long-term value creation plans.
- Proven ability to influence and partner with cross-functional stakeholders across multiple levels of an organization.
- Experience leading projects, teams, or direct reports and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including development of materials for senior leadership and executive audiences.
Preferred Qualifications - MBA or master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Strategy, or a related field.
- Minimum years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or a combination of these areas.
- Experience supporting enterprise-level strategic planning, portfolio optimization, and enterprise value creation initiatives.
- Experience evaluating mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, or strategic partnerships.
- Experience in food, agriculture, manufacturing, industrial, consumer products, or related industries.
- Strong financial modeling, valuation, scenario planning, and capital allocation experience.
External Applicant Information- Location: This role is based at Cargill's Global Headquarters in Wayzata, Minnesota and currently offers a hybrid work environment with a minimum of four (4) days in office and up to one (1) day remote each week.
- Compensation Information: The expected base salary for this position is $175,000 to $275,000. this position is also eligible for a Short-Term Incentive (STI), Long-Term Incentives (LTI), and company benefits. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the lohis position is also eligible for a Short-Term Incentive (STI), Long-Term Incentive (LTI), and company benefits.cation at which the position may be filled. 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).
