Strategic Pricing Associate Director -Hybrid

Strategic Pricing Associate Director -Hybrid

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 Strategic Pricing Associate Director will lead the development and execution of strategic pricing processes to support the continuous development of strategic pricing people, process and technology capabilities across businesses. In this role, you will lead the execution of profitability optimization projects across business groups and provide leadership for the continuous optimization of critical pricing capabilities such as value based pricing, customer, consumer and retail pricing, large deal pricing and negotiations and pricing science, analytics and technology.

**This role offers a hybrid work opportunity 3 days in office, 2 days remote. Preference will be given to candidates living near Cargill locations of Woodstock Ontario, Olathe Kansas or Minneapolis, Minnesota. **

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the execution of profitability optimization projects and deploy strategic pricing capabilities for the various business groups aligned with their strategies, market dynamics and needs.
• Define roadmaps and execute initiatives by leading new approaches for large deal negotiations.
• Develop execution strategies for the deployment of pricing as an end to end process from strategic considerations to actual price setting techniques, governance and supporting technology.
• Review business need assessments with regard to data and technological requirements and make realistic return on investment recommendations.
• Monitor trends and pricing developments and trends and ensure new thought leadership and new capabilities are introduced across business groups.
• Evaluate hypotheses for profit improvement opportunities, validate with data and facts and execute the strategy for deployment projects to capitalize on the opportunities.
• Lead the execution of different pricing strategies and improve sustainable profitability in collaboration with various internal functions, including commercial, product line, sales, marketing and finance.
• Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. 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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Analytical proficiency to derive insights from large and complex sets of business data
• Financial knowledge for profit and loss, margin and price decision making
• Experienced in project and change management
• Minimum of six years of related work experience
• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in either the US or Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• Three years of supervisory experience
• Experience using Tableau, Power BI or other analytical tools

US Applicants: Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

Canada Applicants:Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.