Global Animal Byproducts Lead

Global Animal Byproducts Lead

Job Purpose and Impact The Global Animal Byproducts Lead will create and coordinate the global sourcing strategy for animal proteins, blood products, rendered meals and fats across Animal Nutrition & Health. The role will connect global strategy with regional execution to lower delivered cost, strengthen supply assurance and quality, and improve value realization through market intelligence, supplier partnerships, aggregated demand, aligned specifications and optimized supply chains.

This leader will operate through influence in a global matrix, partnering with regional RMS and cross-functional teams while building a global center of expertise for the category. This position is an onsite role based in our Wayzata, MN office.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop global category strategies and purchasing recommendations using market analysis, cost drivers, trade flows and risk analysis.
• Build a consolidated global supply-and-demand view and a center of expertise with shared intelligence, tools and best practices
• Represent the category in strategic global initiatives, including NFQ, Neopigg/YAN, Global Ingredient Specifications and other projects where ingredient functionality, quality and availability affect nutritional performance and portfolio growth.
• Manage the global ABP project portfolio, ensuring cost-reduction, quality, supplier development and supply chain initiatives are prioritized, coordinated and executed across regions.
• Lead supplier strategy, negotiations, performance and development, including global or multi-regional tenders that aggregate demand and improve commercial terms.
• Partner with regional RMS and cross-functional teams to align governance, decision rights, specifications, supplier qualification and execution while preserving local accountability
• Optimize freight, storage, inventory, working capital and alternative sourcing, including value capture across CISA and Cargill.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, procurement, business, agricultural economics, animal or food science, or equivalent experience

• Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.

• Strategic sourcing, merchandising, category or supplier-management experience in feed or food ingredients, agricultural commodities, rendering, animal proteins or a related industry

• Strong knowledge of supply and demand, cost drivers, trade flows, logistics and supplier economics, with the ability to turn market information into sourcing action

• Experience managing supplier, quality and supply-continuity risks with technical, quality and operations teams

• Strong influence, analytical, financial, project-management and communication skills in a global matrix

• Ability to travel internationally as required

• Preferred qualifications

• Global category experience in animal byproducts or adjacent ingredients, with established supplier relationships and market knowledge

• Experience with animal nutrition, ingredient functionality, specifications, supplier qualification and feed-safety requirements

• Success leading global tenders, cross-border flows, centralized value capture and complex negotiations

• Experience building expertise networks in a global matrix; additional relevant languages are beneficial

• Advanced Spanish communication skills

• Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

• 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.