Data Strategy and Execution Lead - Trading Risk Management; TRM

Position: Data Strategy and Execution Lead - Trading Risk Management (TRM)
Location: Wayzata

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.

Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life's essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.

** Job Purpose and Impact*
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** Data Strategy and Execution Lead
** will own the Trading and Risk Management (TRM) data strategy and drive its execution: translating trading ambitions into a prioritized roadmap of trusted, governed and reusable data products, and defining the information architecture required for AI-enabled trading.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone equally credible shaping strategy with executives and challenging a pipeline design with engineers. You will partner with data teams across the organization to drive execution and convert fragmented demand into measurable business outcomes.

** Key Accountabilities*
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** DATA STRATEGY &

ROADMAP:

** Defines the TRM data strategy, target state, priorities and value cases. Translates trading and risk-management ambitions into a sequenced roadmap, investment choices, measurable outcomes and an execution backlog, partnering with the product teams across the organization. Leads directly or partners with other data teams to evolve critical datasets into governed, high-quality, reusable data products fit for analytics, AI and trading needs.

Works across the organization to define clear ownership, stewardship, quality standards and lifecycle management.

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** INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE:
** Shape, balancing corporate standards and specific trading and risk management needs, and steward the TRM information architecture, including data products, domain and semantic models, metadata, lineage and AI-ready foundations. Ensures architecture decisions support discoverability, reuse, interoperability and trusted decision-making. Partners with data functions, data architecture, security and governance teams to adopt common standards and operating models across data capture, storage, transformation and access while defining well-governed exceptions when required to meet distinctive TRM needs.

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** DEEP TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP:
** Serves as the technical authority for TRM data engineering. Reviews and challenges platform, pipeline, modeling and integration designs; guides engineers through complex trade-offs; and ensures solutions are scalable, observable, resilient, secure, maintainable and ready for advanced analytics and AI workloads for TRM.Provides leadership and guidance to product teams to address high-value needs and successfully executes the TRM data strategy. Converts fragmented or ad hoc requests into a transparent, prioritized backlog with clear delivery metrics and business outcomes.

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** TRADING DOMAIN PARTNERSHIP:
** Builds trusted relationships with trading, risk, operations and technology leaders to understand decision workflows, identify data constraints and shape pragmatic solutions. Communicates complex data and architecture choices clearly to executive and technical audiences.

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** CAPABILITY BUILDING:
** Develops and coaches high-performing data resources across teams. Clarifies roles and ways of working across data strategy, architecture, engineering, product ownership and stewardship, while strengthening data-product and AI-readiness capabilities across TRM.

** Qualifications*
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