Senior director, group strategy execution director, anh emea and global salmon

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 Regional Strategy Execution Senior Director leads the translation of Animal Nutrition and Health (ANH) and enterprise strategy into clear regional priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes across EMEA, India & Global Salmon. This role is accountable for end-to-end regional strategic planning and execution, ensuring alignment with ANH strategy, disciplined governance, and delivery of strategic initiatives. Acting as a trusted advisor and core member of the Regional Leadership Team, the role drives prioritization, execution rigor, and capability building, while enabling sustainable value creation across the region. This role can be located anywhere in Europe where ANH has an established team presence.

Key Accountabilities

Regional Strategy, Portfolio Execution & Prioritization Discipline

• In partnership with ANH leadership and regional leaders, refines and executes the regional strategy and business portfolio, ensuring alignment with overall ANH strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Translates strategy into clear regional priorities and actionable initiatives, ensuring strategic clarity and aligned resource allocation across priority markets, segments, and value pools.
• In partnership with Regional Senior Vice President and Managing Director, continually assesses the regional business portfolio against established ANH portfolio criteria, proactively identifying opportunities to accelerate growth, optimize performance, or exit segments.
• Drives disciplined execution by monitoring progress, removing bottlenecks, and ensuring pace and delivery against targets.
• Ensures clarity on trade-offs, resource allocation, and sequencing of initiatives to maximize impact.

Strategic Planning & Execution

• Accountable for regional strategic planning processes.
• Works with portfolio leader and Project Management Office (PMO) to establish a structured execution cadence to track progress and drive accountability.
• Strengthens program and project management capabilities across the region by partnering with the Regional Portfolio Senior Advisor.
• Embedding standard governance, playbooks, and delivery discipline.
• Elevates execution maturity through scalable tools, KPIs, and best practices.

Commercial Excellence (CE) Enablement

In close partnership with the ANH Commercial Excellence (CE) team, ensures CE capabilities are effectively deployed across EMEAI and Global Salmon, prioritized according to business needs, and continuously matured and embedded into ways of working. Links CE capability deployment directly to commercial outcomes (growth, margin, mix).

Strategic Initiatives & MADJV Leadership

Leads and coordinates regional MADJV (M&A, Divestitures, Joint Ventures) strategy-related projects, in alignment with ANH and corporate development priorities. Ensures strong linkage between strategic rationale, value creation thesis, and execution readiness.

Stakeholder Alignment, Leadership & Talent Development

Acts as a strategic advisor and active member of the Regional Leadership Team, shaping business direction and influencing key decisions. Drives alignment across functions and geographies to ensure focus on shared priorities and outcomes. Leads cross-functional collaboration (Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, HR, etc.) to enable integrated execution. Builds organizational capability by mentoring and coaching talent, strengthening strategy and execution skills across teams. Fosters leadership effectiveness and develops talent pipelines to sustain long-term business success.

#LI-AC1Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategy, transformation, commercial strategy, or program leadership roles.
• Proven track record of translating strategy into execution in complex, matrixed environments.
• Strong experience in stakeholder alignment at senior leadership level.
• Familiarity with agri-food, protein, aquaculture, or B2B value chains is a strong advantage.
• Experience with MAJV, strategic partnerships is preferred.

Leadership & Functional Capabilities

• Strategic Problem Solving: Translates ambiguity into structured plans and decisions.
• Execution Excellence: Builds governance and ensures disciplined delivery.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Links strategy to measurable value creation.
• Stakeholder Influence: Aligns senior leaders through insight and clarity.
• Capability Building: Scales tools, playbooks, and ways of working across teams.
• Change Leadership: Drives adoption and momentum across complex transformations.
• Strategy communication: Articulates strategy with clarity and impact. Crafts clear, compelling narratives and executive-ready materials that frame ambiguity, align stakeholders, and drive decisions—leveraging strong written and visual communication to translate strategy into action.

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

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