Senior Director, Global Formulation - Risk Management & Sourcing, Animal Nutrition & Health - US (Wayzata)

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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures. Job Purpose and ImpactThe Senior Director, Global Formulation – Risk Management & Sourcing, Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH) leads ANH’s global formulation capability and provides strategic leadership to the formulation organization. This role is accountable for building a high-performing global team, strengthening technical and leadership capability, and establishing the standards, tools, metrics, and ways of working required to deliver ANH’s business objectives.This role will advance formulation effectiveness across ANH by improving speed, consistency, quality, and value creation. It will establish and continuously evolve world-class formulation standards, analytics, performance metrics, digital tools, and artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities, while incorporating an outside-in perspective to sustain ANH’s competitive advantage. Through globally connected and locally executed capabilities, the role will enable markets to formulate faster and more consistently, protect product performance and customer commitments, improve cost competitiveness, and support material margin growth.The Senior Director will ensure the successful deployment, adoption, and value realization of Cargill Nutrition Cloud (CNC) and Cargill Labeling Cloud (CLC) in accordance with the approved roadmap. The role will partner with Digital Technology & Data, regional and in-market RMS teams, and other functional stakeholders to simplify processes, reduce manual work, improve decision quality, and capture efficiency and business value from enhanced platform capabilities. The role will represent RMS and the formulation function in key cross-functional initiatives, including Optimized Nutrition (ON) and Nutrition, Formulation and Quality (NFQ).This role is also accountable for strengthening the global formulation talent system. It will define capability and proficiency standards, support career paths and succession planning, and establish a learning and development agenda that evolves with business and technology needs. Through coaching, talent development programs, and a strong global community of practice, the role will build the formulation capabilities required for ANH’s long-term success.Key AccountabilitiesProvide strategic leadership for ANH’s global formulation capability, establishing clear priorities, standards, governance, and ways of working that improve formulation speed, consistency, quality, and business value across markets.Own and continuously improve global formulation principles, including constraint management, least-cost versus performance tradeoffs, ingredient inclusion and substitution practices, product performance requirements, and escalation processes.Lead the adoption and value realization of Cargill Nutrition Cloud, Cargill Labeling Cloud, artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities, analytics, and other formulation tools in alignment with ANH RMS priorities.Partner with regional and in-market RMS leaders, Strategic Marketing and Technology, Digital Technology & Data, Operations, Quality, and other stakeholders to identify formulation priorities, remove execution barriers, and translate global capabilities into measurable local business outcomes.Lead global formulation programs that support Optimized Nutrition (ON), Nutrition, Formulation and Quality (NFQ), constraint management, nutritional matrix updates, cost competitiveness, and material margin growth.Establish and maintain global formulation metrics, dashboards, and governance routines to monitor performance, efficiency, and realized value.Integrate external market, technology, competitor, and industry perspectives into the global formulation strategy to ensure ANH continuously strengthens its competitive position.Lead a global formulation community of practice, including training, knowledge sharing, coaching, and mechanisms to rapidly scale best practices across markets.Define global formulation capability and proficiency standards, succession planning, and lead a forward-looking learning and development agenda.Represent Formulation on the Global RMS Leadership Team and in key cross-functional governance forums, ensuring clear communication, accountability, and follow-through on decisions and commitments.Other duties as assigned.#LI-FA1QualificationsMinimum QualificationsBachelor's degree in animal nutrition, agricultural science, engineering, business, or a related fieldMinimum of eight years of related work experience in animal nutrition, feed formulation or formulation systems experience in a complex businessFive years of supervisory or leading experience with diverse global teamsConfirmed experience in formulation policies, procedures and general understanding of animal nutrition industry practices and standardsProven ability to establish global standards, governance, metrics, and operating processes while enabling effective local executionStrong understanding of formulation economics, including the ability to balance nutritional performance, product integrity, ingredient availability, manufacturability, cost competitiveness, and marginExperience leading complex, cross-functional programs involving technical teams, business leaders, digital technology, operations, quality, and other stakeholdersAble and willing to travel up to 10% globallyPreferred QualificationsMaster’s degree in animal nutrition, agricultural science, engineering, business, or a related fieldExperience leading large-scale technology deployments, driving user adoption, and managing organizational changeExternal industry exposure to formulation tools and practices, including Cargill Nutrition Cloud, Bestmix, Brill, or comparable formulation platformsExperience applying advanced analytics, automation, optimization, or artificial intelligence to technical decision-makingFluency in more than one language and experience working across multiple cultures and regionsApplicant InformationThe expected salary for this position is $178,000 to $230,000. 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 location 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: to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/VetMinnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.