Sr. Director, Data Analytics Reporting - Food NA

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day.

Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and food service companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

The Sr. Director, Data & Analytics Reporting – Food North America owns the development and execution of data reporting strategies to drive data-informed decision-making across the organization. This role provides strategic leadership to the team responsible for data and analytics reporting development, including quality and accessibility of data insights. The Sr. Director partners closely with key business leaders to understand their needs and sets report governance to ensure consistency, compliance, and data integrity, guiding the communication of complex data insights to effectively deliver business outcomes while nurturing a data-driven culture to improve the value of data for business growth and innovation.

In addition, this role requires deep technical expertise to ensure responsible engineering practices across the data stack, including ingestion and integration models, optimizing infrastructure for scalability and performance, and enabling operations in cloud environments.

• Leads the development and oversees the overall implementation of data and analytics reporting strategy to achieve business objectives, providing strategic insights, a future vision and plan, and direction to senior management.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure the application of standard, responsible engineering practices across the data stack. This includes designing and maintaining ingestion and integration models, optimizing data infrastructure for scalability and performance, and enabling operations in cloud environments.
• Builds positive relationships with key partners to understand their data needs, provides insights, and oversees reporting solutions address key objectives and are effectively integrated into business processes. Partners with other data related roles within DT&D, functions, enterprise and business to prioritize and deliver key business objectives.
• Leads all aspects of ongoing efforts to guide and improve data analysis and reporting practices and champions a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.
• Provides strategic leadership on reporting and analytics governance initiatives to ensure consistency, compliance, data integrity, accuracy, and security across all data reporting processes and outputs.
• Monitors the creation of comprehensive reports and dashboards to ensure data visualizations effectively communicate significant insights and are user friendly, timely and aligned with business needs.
• Handles the budget for the data analysis and reporting function, ensuring prioritization to optimize efficiency and that teams meet their goals within financial constraints.
• Leads the development of relevant initiatives to mature data consumption and analytics capabilities.
• Reviews and approves analytics and reporting tools while supervising the effectiveness of technology for data processing, visualization and reporting.
• Manages team members to achieve the organization’s goals, by ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee…