Innovation Consultant

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Job Title: Innovation Consultant
Location: Olathe, KS, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Cargill, Inc
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Lifestyle Innovation and Technical Consultant-Equine, will provide support, advice and consultation to internal and external stakeholders about nutritional solutions and innovation projects by partnering and working alongside the marketing and cross functional teams. In this role, you will enable the business to enhance its commercial growth agenda by bringing the best nutritional solutions to the equine species team, our customers and consumers.

Key Accountabilities

Lead and manage assigned innovation projects and provide expertise in assessing new business opportunities and helping set priorities in our innovation pipeline.
Provide expert nutritional support to our internal formulation and FSQR teams to drive optimized and quality products for our customers and consumers.
Develop and deliver training to internal and external stakeholders including sales, strategic marketing and technology team and customers.
Identify trends and contribute on portfolio renewal and support strategy setting enabling us to deliver on business promises
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Animal Science or a related field
5 years of animal nutrition experience

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree or other post-secondary degree in veterinary, animal nutrition, or related animal science discipline
Equine animal nutrition education
Minimum of 10 years of related work experience in formulation, quality and regulatory systems.

Position Information

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Location: Remote

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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Job Post Date: 03/08/26