Grain Origination Merchant

About the role

This position is in Cargill's Ag & Trading enterprise, which connects producers and users of grains and oilseeds globally through origination, trading, processing, and distribution and offers farmer services and risk management solutions. The Grain Origination Merchant serves as the critical link between farmer customers and the company's customer‑facing strategy, translating regional and local cash commodity market knowledge into timely, competitive service offerings. The role focuses primarily on corn, soybean, and wheat operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with farmer customers.
• Focus on competitively positioning commodity offers in local cash markets to efficiently source them through our facilities while focusing on maximizing profitability for both customers and the company.
• Develop a deep understanding of the basic market access needs desired by customers in the segment and work to quickly adapt to changes in these needs with shifts in local cash markets.
• Collaborate with internal sales, merchandising, customer service and operations teams to meet customer needs efficiently and in a manner which is tightly linked to regional and local cash market strategies.
• Enable an efficient and effective customer experience through utilizing our systems and digital offerings.
• Consistently identify and communicate customer insights back into the business unit that can be utilized to create and enhance standardized customer segment value propositions, as well as overall business strategy development.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of related work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (preferred)
• Commercial or grain sales experience (preferred)
• Understanding of basic production agriculture principles (preferred)

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Medical, vision and dental coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement savings
• Employee and family assistance program (EAP)

Learn more at: www.cargill.com/myhealth

Schedule

This is a hybrid role that requires commuting to the office in Bloomingburg or Sidney, Ohio 3 times per week.