Sr. Commercial Analyst

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.

Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Sr. Commercial Analyst will support the Commercial Leaders on our global and regional projects and initiatives, building commercial excellence capabilities in strategic pricing, sales enablement, route to market, marketing, consumer insights, and branding to drive organic growth. This person will collaborate across teams and regions to deliver business recommendations based on rigorous research, analytics and insights.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide analytics leadership on commercial excellence projects to support business priorities and growth ambitions
• Support the crafting and execution of regional transformation roadmaps and the implementation timeline, as well as project plans and timelines
• Drive implementation of core processes for diagnostics, hypothesis development & testing, development of business recommendations and implementation of core capabilities, and manage communication with businesses on given commercial excellence projects.
• Generate insights using Self service Analytics tools such as Tableau/Power BI Tableau/Power BI to support business transformation and growth priorities
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision while leading projects or workstreams, propose effective solutions to the issues at hand, while appropriately escalating the most complex issues
• Proactively communicate and align recommendations/actions with business and functional stakeholders; seek internal and external best practices
• Support implementation of project recommendations as needed by the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Commercial mindset, and strong business acumen
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and use analytical thinking
• Strong proficiency across Microsoft Office products (PowerPoint, Teams, Excel...etc).
• Proficiency with AI tools (Chat GPT, Co-Pilot, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and confidentially with various levels of organization and potentially customers
• Ability to adapt to different cultures, and be part of a global team
• Comfortable learning new topics, prioritizing and executing multiple tasks

• MBA preferred.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in one of the following: Sales, Commercial Excellence, Commercial Management, FP&A, Trading, Business Development, Demand Planning, Strategic Marketing, Modeling
• Ability to travel- 10-20%
• Demonstrated strong analytical capabilities -Ability to clean, structure, map and blend data using Knime or similar tools and visualize and analyze it using tools like Tableau/Power BI.
• Ability to work with limited information or work under ambiguity
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills to build trust with various stakeholders
• Self-starter with ability to structure own work while collaborating with others
• Comfortable with working within a diverse and inclusive environment
• Experience with external databases like Euromonitor, Nielsen, etc.
• Ability to quickly understand business processes, sales tools, system architecture etc.