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Associate, Sales & Contract Operations (Open to Remote)

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Job ID 325766 Date posted 04/20/2026 Location : Wayzata, Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota Category  SALES Job Status  Hourly 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 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 Impact

The Associate, Sales & Contract Operations, will provide basic knowledge of pricing and contracting activities to assist in the coordination of process implementations and governance across contracts, pricing and contracted volume and futures. In this role, you will assist with master data stewardship, contract settlement and communications with sales account managers, strategic pricing and customers. This role supports various business segments, including products such as edible oils, sweeteners, cocoa, protein, and salt.

Key Accountabilities

  • Apply basic knowledge and assist to calculate and handle contract pricing requests based on customer supply agreements and spot market prices and validate quotes and opportunities for database entry.
  • Assist to validate contract performance to ensure customers, sales and trading are in compliance with trading requirements.
  • Assist with the new customer set up processes and validate customer master data to be entered to ensure accurate and timely invoicing to customers.
  • Assist with contract alignment to customer sales orders and partner with the team to ensure contract clarity to help resolve unclear points in the contracts.
  • Assist in the settlement of contracts for customer account statements to support both internal and external customers.
  • Handle the less complex customer sample process, validate operator agreements for compliance and entry into the appropriate database.
  • Develop knowledge of the contract management processes to assist in the identification of improvement opportunities and assist with solution development utilizing the root cause analysis process.
  • Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Experience ensuring data in internal systems is accurate and up to date
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in complex multinational or matrixed organization
  • Experience with Salesforce or a similar CRM system
  • SAP experience
  • Ability to effectively represent the business from a commercial perspective to customers

Position information

•    This is a remote position within the United States.
•    This posting will expire on April 27th, 2026.
•    The expected salary for this position is $49,000 - $60,000. 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.
•    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).

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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