Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and food service companies.  

JOB PURPOSE AND IMPACT

The Strategic Pricing Manager (Global) supports the continuous development of our strategic pricing capability across Cargill’s businesses. We seek a multifaceted professional who will be leading pricing optimization projects across the business groups to provide continuous optimization of critical pricing capabilities such as value-based pricing, consumer and retail pricing, big deal pricing and negotiations and pricing science, analytics and technology. In this role you will act as an advisor to pricing and commercial leaders across the business.  

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Lead multiple pricing optimization projects and deploy strategic pricing capabilities for the various business groups, aligning with their strategies, market dynamics and needs

• Define detailed, impact and results driven roadmaps and implement initiatives by showing a lead-by-example implementation style (e.g. by taking lead role, together with business owners, on new approaches for big deal negotiations).

• Support the deployment of pricing as an end-to end process, from strategic considerations to actual price setting techniques, governance and supporting technology.

• Provide business need assessments with regard to data and technological requirements and be able to make realistic return on investment tradeoffs in terms of how sophisticated the requirements need to be.

• Continuously evaluate pricing developments and trends to ensure new thought leadership and capabilities are introduced into the various business groups.

• Generate hypotheses for profit improvement opportunities, validate with data and facts, and develop deployment projects to capitalize on the opportunities.

• You will serve as an expert in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues/problems. 

• You may provide direction to lower level team members and be a key contributor.

• Other duties as assigned.