Senior Director, Global Formulation Risk Management & Sourcing, Animal Nutrition & Health EMEA

The Senior Director Global Formulation Risk Management & Sourcing Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH) leads ANHs global formulation capability and provides strategic leadership to the formulation organization. This role is accountable for building a high-performing global team strengthening technical and leadership capability and establishing the standards tools metrics and ways of working required to deliver ANHs business objectives.

This role will advance formulation effectiveness across ANH by improving speed consistency quality and value creation. It will establish and continuously evolve world-class formulation standards analytics performance metrics digital tools and artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities while incorporating an outside-in perspective to sustain ANHs competitive advantage. Through globally connected and locally executed capabilities the role will enable markets to formulate faster and more consistently protect product performance and customer commitments improve cost competitiveness and support material margin growth.

The Senior Director will ensure the successful deployment adoption and value realization of Cargill Nutrition Cloud (CNC) and Cargill Labeling Cloud (CLC) in accordance with the approved roadmap. The role will partner with Digital Technology & Data regional and in-market RMS teams and other functional stakeholders to simplify processes reduce manual work improve decision quality and capture efficiency and business value from enhanced platform capabilities. The role will represent RMS and the formulation function in key cross-functional initiatives including Optimized Nutrition (ON) and Nutrition Formulation and Quality (NFQ).

This role is also accountable for strengthening the global formulation talent system. It will define capability and proficiency standards support career paths and succession planning and establish a learning and development agenda that evolves with business and technology needs. Through coaching talent development programs and a strong global community of practice the role will build the formulation capabilities required for ANHs long-term success.

• Provide strategic leadership for ANHs global formulation capability establishing clear priorities standards governance and ways of working that improve formulation speed consistency quality and business value across markets.
• Own and continuously improve global formulation principles including constraint management least-cost versus performance tradeoffs ingredient inclusion and substitution practices product performance requirements and escalation processes.
• Lead the adoption and value realization of Cargill Nutrition Cloud Cargill Labeling Cloud artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities analytics and other formulation tools in alignment with ANH RMS priorities.
• Partner with regional and in-market RMS leaders Strategic Marketing and Technology Digital Technology & Data Operations Quality and other stakeholders to identify formulation priorities remove execution barriers and translate global capabilities into measurable local business outcomes.
• Lead global formulation programs that support Optimized Nutrition (ON) Nutrition Formulation and Quality (NFQ) constraint management nutritional matrix updates cost competitiveness and material margin growth.
• Establish and maintain global formulation metrics dashboards and governance routines to monitor performance efficiency and realized value.
• Integrate external market technology competitor and industry perspectives into the global formulation strategy to ensure ANH continuously strengthens its competitive position.
• Lead a global formulation community of practice including training knowledge sharing coaching and mechanisms to rapidly scale best practices across markets.
• Define global formulation capability and proficiency standards succession planning and lead a forward-looking learning and development agenda.
• Represent Formulation on the Global RMS Leadership Team and in key cross-functional governance forums ensuring clear communication accountability and follow-through on decisions and commitments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in animal nutrition agricultural science engineering business or a related field
• Minimum of eight years of related work experience in animal nutrition feed formulation or formulation systemsexperiencein a complex business
• Five years of supervisory or leading experience with diverse global teams
• Confirmed experience in formulation policies procedures and general understanding of animal nutrition industry practices and standards
• Proven ability to establish global standards governance metrics and operating processes while enabling effective local execution
• Strong understanding of formulation economics including the ability to balance nutritional performance product integrity ingredient availability manufacturability cost competitiveness and margin
• Experience leading complex cross-functional programs involving technical teams business leaders digital technology operations quality and other stakeholders
• Able and willing to travel up to 10% globally

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in animal nutrition agricultural science engineering business or a related field
• Experience leading large-scale technology deployments driving user adoption and managing organizational change
• External industry exposure to formulationtools and practices including Cargill Nutrition Cloud Bestmix Brill or comparable formulation platforms
• Experience applying advanced analytics automation optimization or artificial intelligence to technical decision-making
• Fluency in more than one language and experience working across multiple cultures and regions