Senior Director, Swine and Poultry R&D

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.

Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve animal lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.

The Senior Director, Swine and Poultry R&D will drive and support our Animal Nutrition and Health business objectives and species growth strategies through innovation, new product development and research needs across the business on a global approach. In this role, you will lead the development of short and long term strategic new products, solutions and services development through research partnerships with essential Cargill and Animal Nutrition and Health(ANH) stakeholders, customers, suppliers and academic partners while implementing programs for emerging technology needs. You will identify, set and drive the strategic direction to ensure effective evolution and science behind global implementation of new products and solutions, development and transfer of high performance technologies. You will drive and build the research team to be a world class R&D team within the animal industry according the ANH Core Nutrition and Applied R&D road map.

• Partner collaboratively with specific internal and external stakeholders to develop and leverage technology innovations, identify emerging trends and deliver research programs aligned with business and customer needs to continuously support the business growth.
• Foster strategic disruptive ideas to create opportunity spaces from scientific knowledge across multiple business groups and enterprises.
• Provide expert resources and capabilities to support specific development projects within business innovation portfolios.
• Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management activities for direct reports and their organizations, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training and budgeting. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.
• Provide leadership to execute with excellence within our research ecosystem including innovation centres and technology applications centers.
• Build effective and solid scientific key thought leadership aligned with the species key thought leadership.
• Partner with other business leaders to enable the development of strategies, processes and control mechanisms to ensure compliance with specific laws, regulations and company policies while providing leadership to establish procedures and tools to manage the intellectual assets.
• Influence and balance area programs and investments appropriately between mature and high growth products to reflect business priorities and strategic plans.
• Create and maintain the budget and expenses for the related team, align resources to deliver on strategic plans and develop programs that create operating efficiencies.
• Support the Strategic Marketing and Technology Innovation engine through customer jobs to be done identification, Innovation weeks contribution and others.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in animal science, veterinary and related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of eight years of related work experience in animal nutrition or health with focus on swine or poultry, five years of supervisory experience
• Fluent in English
• Open to travel 25-30%

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD degree in animal science, veterinary or related field
• 15 years research and development work in animal nutrition or health, with a focus on swine or poultry (preferably both) and minimum 5 years in strategic role
• At least 8 years of supervisory experience
• Experience leading the development of a network of external alliances with potential partners and prominent research organizations, interacting and negotiating with technology partners in order to transfer innovative technologies
• Broad expertise in animal nutrition in several species, biology, physiology, veterinary
• Manage a team to develop and implement short and long term strategic research and development programs designed to improve maturing market needs
• Experience and proven track record of managing and developing high performing teams
• Curiosity and interest to work in a global and multicultural environment
• Creativity and inspirational
• Ability to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Ability to understand the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, focusing on continuous improvement
• Ability to make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory, information to effectively solve problems
• Fluency in other languages is nice to have

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.

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