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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Swine Nutrition Specialist leads nutrition strategy and execution for swine, partnering with commercial, technical and operational teams to translate customer and market needs into differentiated, nutritionally sound, profitable and operationally feasible solutions. The role serves as a trusted swine nutrition leader for priority customers and prospects, driving solutions end-to-end from opportunity and design through formulation, validation, launch and adoption. It leads cross-functional actions and addresses formulation and operational constraints so nutrition expertise delivers performance, profitability, quality and reliable execution.
Key Accountabilities
- Translate customer and market inputs into innovation and portfolio priorities. Use performance and profitability insights, field observations and competitive benchmarks to identify needs and guide differentiated nutrition solutions.
- Review and update the nutritional ladder so the active portfolio responds to customer needs. Keep formulation designs and specifications current in the formulation system, aligned with quality and QA requirements, and identify registration or submission needs.
- Optimize nutrition requests, reformulations and ingredient choices to deliver profitable products without compromising on-farm performance. Identify cost savings, assess raw materials and coordinate supply and availability with RMS.
- Lead nutrition innovation and strategy within the category: identify market-led opportunities, assess technical feasibility and value, prioritize the portfolio and align research with Global R&D. Own cross-functional progress from product concept and formulation through validation, GTM, launch and adoption.
- Lead technical execution and guide local teams. Set nutrition guidelines with Formulation and physical specifications with Operations; proactively address formulation and operational constraints, drive needed reformulations, maintain quality and capacity, and monitor PCPQ/XBI thresholds to trigger action.
- Coordinate project teams and cross-functional activities to deliver overall results. Develop tools and train-the-trainer sessions to strengthen technical capability, solution deployment and sales effectiveness.
- Serve as the local technical point of contact and independently resolve complex issues, escalating as appropriate. Use nutritional, physical and laboratory analysis to validate diets and ingredients, prioritize technical actions and prevent unnecessary economic impact on products.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned.
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Proficient level in English, both written and verbal.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills.
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
- Confirmed species nutrition knowledge and proficient use of formulation tools and concepts
- Over 7 years demonstrated expertise in species nutrition, feed manufacturing and on farm experience.
Preferred Qualifications- Master's degree in nutrition
- Confirmed success in project management and/ or product management.
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