At a glance

Location: Wayzata
Work type: Onsite

What they are looking for

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Location: Wayzata, Minn, US

Title

Director, Early Careers & Emerging Talent

Job Requisition ID

334499

Location

Wayzata, Minnesota, US United States, 55391

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HUMAN RESOURCES

Description

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

The Director, Early Careers & Emerging Talent is responsible for reimagining and refreshing Cargill’s global early careers talent acquisition strategy, delivery model, and execution across priority markets, ensuring a modern, scalable, and future-focused approach to attracting emerging talent. This highly strategic role will partner closely with enterprise, regional and functional Talent Acquisition, HR and business leaders to translate future workforce demand into scalable emerging talent pipelines, differentiated digital experiences and measurable hiring outcomes. The role will reimagine how Cargill discovers, engages, assesses and converts emerging talent through talent communities, recruitment marketing, responsible AI, automation, modern selection practices, internships, apprenticeships, graduate programs, university hiring and other emerging talent pathways. Success requires deep expertise in early careers recruiting, university relations, education and industry partnerships, recruitment technology, selection excellence, program design, data-driven decision making and global stakeholder influence. The leader must be able to operate across geographies, cultures, regulatory environments and education systems while building global consistency, regional relevance and measurable impact.

You will continuously develop the strategy, capabilities, tools and partnerships needed to position Cargill as an employer of choice for early careers talent globally. This role reports to the Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition Enablement and Early Careers

Key Accountabilities

Define and lead Cargill’s global early careers talent acquisition strategy, translating future workforce demand into scalable emerging talent pipelines, digitally enabled engagement models and hiring plans.

Design, build and activate globally consistent early careers programs across internships, apprenticeships, graduate programs, university hiring and other emerging talent pathways.

Partner with business, HR and Talent Acquisition leaders to align early careers hiring with strategic workforce planning, critical capability needs and enterprise talent priorities, ensuring programs create meaningful roles, productive experiences and clear conversion pathways rather than simply delivering hiring volume.

Lead global university relations, campus engagement, school partnerships, student organizations and early talent community-building strategies across priority talent segments and markets, with an emphasis on partnerships that influence curriculum, improve work readiness and build sustainable pipelines into critical capabilities.

Develop innovative attraction, sourcing, recruitment marketing and digital experience strategies that strengthen Cargill’s early careers employer brand, activate talent communities and improve diverse pipeline quality.

Own the operating model, governance, standards and processes for global early careers recruiting, ensuring consistent candidate, hiring manager and stakeholder experiences.

Drive measurable improvements in early careers hiring outcomes, including pipeline conversion, quality of hire, diversity representation, time to productivity, retention, offer acceptance, process governance and program effectiveness.

Partner with Talent Acquisition Enablement, HR Analytics and technology teams to build dashboards, insights, automation, responsible AI-enabled capabilities and reporting that inform decisions, improve candidate and stakeholder experiences and demonstrate business impact.

Lead and develop a high performing global early careers talent acquisition team, building capability in advisory skills, sourcing, selection, program management and stakeholder influence.

Create and manage strategic partnerships with universities, education providers, vendors, platforms and industry organizations that support early careers attraction, assessment, engagement, work readiness, curriculum alignment and hiring delivery.

Champion inclusive hiring practices and equitable access to early careers opportunities across geographies, talent communities and education systems in partnership with inclusive hiring.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

At least six years of experience within high-performing talent acquisition teams, preferably with significant early careers, university relations or emerging talent scope.

At least five years of supervisory or people leadership experience.

Confirmed experience leading global or multi-region talent acquisition strategy, with strong exposure to early careers, university recruiting, emerging talent or program-based hiring.

Experience developing talent pipelines, recruitment marketing approaches, campus strategies and attraction methods for early careers talent segments.

Experience using recruiting technology, assessment tools, CRM platforms, applicant tracking systems and analytics to improve hiring outcomes and candidate experience.