Vice President, Digital Technology Functions (HR/Law)

Job Description

Job Ttitle: Vice President, Digital Technology Functions (HR/Law)

Company: Cargill


Description: Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.Job Purpose and ImpactThe Vice President, Digital Technology for HR and Law is a pivotal leadership role at the center of Cargill’s digital transformation. This leader will shape and deliver the technology strategy for our HR and Law functions, embedding advanced digital capabilities into business initiatives and driving strategic outcomes that elevate our people, processes, and culture.Leading a high-performing global team, the Vice President will champion large-scale transformative initiatives that redefine how we work and amplify value across the organization. With a strong focus on modernization, this leader will harness the power of platforms like SAP SuccessFactors and ServiceNow, along with emerging technologies such as AI and automation, to enable smarter operations, accelerate decision-making, and foster more agile, future-ready ways of working.This role calls for a blend of technical depth and expertise, strategic foresight, and the ability to inspire teams within a performance-driven culture that values accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. The Vice President will closely collaborate with the HR and Legal teams, bringing the ability to influence and guide their strategic direction while championing the role of technology across both functions.As a visible ambassador for Cargill’s Digital Technology and Data organization, the Vice President will build trust, foster strategic partnerships, and strengthen our presence in the broader community.If you are passionate about leading technology initiatives at scale that enhance how we operate and deliver value across the business, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and make a lasting impact at Cargill.Key Accountabilities

• STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Provides strategic leadership in developing and implementing a technology roadmap that supports the overall enterprise or function strategy and aligns with client and organizational objectives.
• PARTNER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Cultivates balanced strategic relationships with enterprise, function and executive leadership and provides expertise to partners in defining scenarios and coordinating organizational communication efforts.
• VALUE CREATION & COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT: Leads new value creation opportunities and preserves value by guiding the execution of compliance policies, managing external partner relationships, reviewing service level requirements and optimizing operating costs.
• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION & OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: Evaluates and reviews performance against service level agreements, ensuring teams collaborate to achieve operational effectiveness.
• PROJECT EXECUTION & BENEFIT REALIZATION: Oversees the execution of product, process, and data initiatives, identifies constraints, evaluates the realization of benefits upon project implementation, and ensures teams deliver against expectations throughout approved projects.
• INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY ENABLEMENT: Champions and influences the introduction of new solutions, technologies and applications to enable business processes, including corporate and transformation initiatives.
• VENDOR RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Handles relationships with external vendors, negotiates contracts, and ensures service level agreements are met.
• TEAM MANAGEMENT: 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 development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 10 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 15 years or more of relevant experience service as a global IT leader with budgetary responsibilities.
• Proven ability to design and implement comprehensive digital strategies and large-scale program management.
• Demonstrated familiarity with enterprise HR technology platforms, ideally leveraging SAP SuccessFactors to drive digital transformation and operational efficiency.
• Experience transforming and operating within a product-centric delivery model.
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise-wide change leadership and strategic stakeholder influence, driving alignment and transformation across teams.
• Experience leading global, cross-functional teams by fostering a high-performance culture centered on collaboration, accountability, and delivering impactful business outcomes at scale.

The expected base salary for this position is $250,000 – $325,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions) .Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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Location: Wayzata, MN

Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:27:46 GMT


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