Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Merchant will be aligned to Cargill’s Animal Nutrition and Health business within the Risk Management and Sourcing team. In this role, you will be responsible for macro commodity sourcing for the Dairy Feed plants in India. You will handle a moderately complex supplier base and fulfill transactions delivering commodities that meet production requirements and specifications in terms of timing, volume, quantity and cost. 

Key Accountabilities

• In this role, you will be responsible for bulk purchase and cost-effective, and strategic sourcing of various Dairy Feed raw materials (Examples: De Oiled Rice Bran, Rapeseed Meal, DDGs – Corn & Rice, Corn, Broken Rice , etc.)
• Conduct market and S&D analysis, build and present trends and analysis 
• Make decisions using macro commodity procurement and Trading experience for margin enhancement, cost effectiveness and asset utilization.
• Formulating lon...