Grain Advisory Representative
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 Grain Advisory Representative will represent the critical link between customers, commercial accounts and the company's customer facing strategy. In this role, you will translate regional and local cash commodity market knowledge into timely and competitive service offerings. The key to sucess in this role is to build a deep understanding of the customers needs and translate those needs into business decisions. This role will cover the West Peace territory (Rycroft, Fairview, Dawson Creek).
Key Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain relationships with core customers and select commercial customer segments.
- Responsible for delivering an advisory service to select, paying clients, in regard to their farm's grain marketing plan and decisions, over the course of the year.
- Develop a deep understanding of the basic market access needs desired by customers in the segment and work to quickly adapt to changes in these needs with shifts in local cash markets.
- Collaborate with internal sales, merchandising, customer service and operations teams to meet customer needs efficiently and in a manner which is tightly linked to regional and local cash market strategies.
- Enable an efficient and effective customer experience through utilizing our systems and digital offerings.
- Consistently identify and communicate customer insights back into the business unit that can be utilized to create and enhance standardized customer segment value propositions, as well as overall business strategy development.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Diploma/certificate or bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Commercial and financial acumen
- Understanding of basic production agriculture principles
- Commercial or sales experience
- Minimum of two years of related work experience
- Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada
- Possess a valid, full Canadian Driver’s License in good standing, authorizing you to drive independently during the course of your employment
- Able and willing to travel locally up to 80% of the time
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Consulting experience
- Agricultural sales experience
Position Information
- Travel is required to cover the area of responsibility.
- Relocation to Rycroft, AB or surrounding area may be provided.
- This position is located in Rycroft, Alberta
Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.
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