Feed Merchant, Wheat
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
Are you looking to launch your career in commodity trading or take the next step in a dynamic commercial environment?
The Feed Merchant Wheat role offers a unique opportunity to develop expertise in agricultural markets while making a direct impact on business performance.
In this position, you will be responsible for maximizing the value of feed grain co-products produced across our extensive processing network. You will identify market opportunities, develop customer relationships, execute physical transactions, and manage price risk through futures markets. By combining physical merchandising with hedging strategies, you will play a key role in optimizing margins and contributing to the overall profitability of the business.
This is an exciting role for young professionals seeking hands-on exposure to commodity trading. It provides an excellent entry point into the industry, as well as a strong platform for further developing commercial, analytical, and risk management skills. You will gain valuable experience navigating both physical cash markets and futures markets, developing a deep understanding of how they interact.
The role offers a unique blend of internal and external stakeholder engagement. You will work closely with production, logistics, and trading teams while building strong relationships with feed mills, traders and other market participants. As a result, you will establish a broad professional network and gain practical experience across the entire supply chain, making this an ideal foundation for a long-term career in commodity merchandising and trading.
Key Accountabilities
- Collaborate with internal production plants across our network, transportation and logistics, quality assurance, customer managers and credit manager to ensure efficient execution.
- Engage in commercial negotiations both indirectly via brokers and primarly through direct partner interactions, largely conducted by phone, with accountability for outcome and value creation.
- Plan trades and transportation to maximize profitable use of stock and storage facilities.
- Enter routine data and run specialty reports from our contract management databases and systems.
- Research and analyze various opportunities in the marketplace to maximize margin.
- Work directly with business counterparts to meet their needs in solving routine problems and addressing complaints and concerns.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal 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
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
- Other minimum qualifications may apply
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional fluency in English; additional languages such as German, Polish, or Dutch are a plus
- Strong negotiation skills with experience in customer-facing roles
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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