Sustainability Sales Specialist

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 agricultural supply chain business, where we seamlessly connect farming customers with food, feed and industry.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Sustainability Sales Specialist will play a pivotal role in our Cargill RegenConnect strategy to scale by working directly with strategic, high opportunity prospective customers. In this role, you will leverage environmental market insight, end-to-end supply chain visibility, and Cargill RegenConnect expertise to create value for customers and Cargill.

 

Location: Minnesota or Iowa. This role is open to remote work in Minnesota or Iowa.

 

Travel: Up to 40% regional travel May-September, and up to 20% regional travel October-April

Key Accountabilities

• Provide insights and input into sustainability strategies and incorporate soon to emerge opportunities and expectations of our customers as well as corporate goals.
• Gain expertise and an understanding of various external programs, sustainable production schemes and digital technology solutions and common sustainability programs that the industry is using to engage customers.
• Collaborate in the development of programs to engage producers around sustainability practices, tools and technology, metrics or certifications that are economically sound, scalable and drive value for all stakeholders across the supply chain.
• Drive the execution of project plans and work directly with suppliers and internal stakeholders to build engagement and trust between the customer community and the business while at the same time develop training tools, workshops and learning sessions to assist with internal and external execution.
• Track key metrics around sustainability strategy and business goals to ensure the value and progress is transparent to internal and external stakeholders.
• Implement and maintain a process to track actual results against commitments and report program performance outcomes to key stakeholders.
• Partner with the marketing and communications teams to optimally position sustainability at the customer level and internally to tell the story of our efforts across the supply chain.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

 

 

Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.