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Oilseeds & Meal Trader

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Job ID 329176 Date posted 06/23/2026 Location : Gurgaon, India Category  TRADING Job Status  Salaried Full Time

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 Ag & Trading enterprise, where we connect producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe through origination, trading, processing, and distribution. We also offer a range of farmer services and risk management solutions. 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Oilseeds & Meal Trader will participate in face to face and remote selling to both new and existing customers. In this role, you will contribute to generating income and controlling risks by performing most routine or complex trading work.

Key Accountabilities

  • Contribute to identification of trading opportunities, development and implementation of trading strategies, potential counterparties and the growth of existing key counterparty relationships.
  • Originate, procure and sell commodities, execute and monitor short term trading strategies and books for oilseeds and meals, market or customer based on speculative and hedged positions.
  • Collaborate with transportation and logistics, quality assurance, customer managers and credit manager to ensure efficient execution
  • Monitor trading positions and associated risks ie m2m and market exposures, credit risks, commodity health risk
  • Reconcile routine or repetitive profit and loss estimates and reports that require some interpretation of trading practices and procedures.
  • Track customer and competitor activity and industry trends.
  • Maintain own datasets, oversight on S&D of oilseeds and meals, liaise with TDS on running S&D estimation processes, tracking data points related to demand and disappearance estimates
  • Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 5 years of related work experience
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply

Key Behaviors:

  • Effectively build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
  • Apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the BU volume and EBITDA targets.
  • Build strong relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
  • Provide direction and removing obstacles to get work done.
  • Take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
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