Merchant II

Iowa Ag; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill is hiring for a Merchant II role in Cedar Rapids, IA. This position focuses on executing merchandising strategies, managing physical positions, and coordinating with logistics and trading teams to optimize margins and supply chains.

The role requires at least 2 years of relevant experience and offers opportunities to engage with cross-functional partners across the business. Some off-hour flexibility is expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Flexibility to work off-hour activities up to 10% of time.

Responsibilities

• Execute and monitor merchandising strategies to optimize margins.
• Manage commodity positions and contract exposures.
• Gather market information and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Merchandising

Market data

Customer relationships

Risk management

Tools

Trading platforms

Market intelligence tools

Job description

### Job Details#### Job Title:Merchant II#### Location:,, ,#### Company:#### Industry Sector:#### Industry Type:#### Career Type:#### Job Type:Full Time#### Minimum Years Experience Required:N/A#### Salary:### Get Job Alerts**Career Type:****Country:** USAI agree to receive alerts from and to the .Your alert was created successfully.x## General Alert Saved* The listings below are jobs matching the criteria you've selected for your General Alert on.Criteria selected was:* General alert saved for .* General alert notifications will be sent weekly on Monday.* Please note that you can only have one general alert active at any given time. Creating a new general alert will override an existing general alert.* Visit the to manage your alerts# Merchant II| Number of Years Experience: | Minimum Education Completed: | || Education Major / Discipline Category: | Most Recent / Current Occupation: | |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 Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.**Job Purpose and Impact**The Merchant II job generates value by executing and monitoring merchandising strategies for a specific commodity or market through originating, buying and selling commodities to support target volumes, margins and business performance. With limited supervision, this job monitors physical positions, contract exposures and lower risk cash positions, gathers and analyzes market, customer and supplier information and coordinates with cross functional and cross business teams to support efficient execution of physical flows and contracts within defined risk parameters.**Key Accountabilities*** COMMERCIAL VALUE GENERATION: Implements short term merchandising strategies by originating, buying and selling commodities to optimize margins, achieve target volumes and support business performance for a specific commodity or market.* COMMODITY POSITION & TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT: Monitors physical positions, contract exposures and lower risk cash positions, including futures hedges, while ensuring transactions meet timing, volume, quality, specification and cost requirements.* MARKET & SUPPLY DEMAND INSIGHTS: Gathers and analyzes moderately complex supply demand trends, pricing dynamics, logistics constraints, customer requirements, product specifications, sustainability considerations and market movements to support merchandising decisions and opportunities.* CUSTOMER & SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: Develops and maintains customer, supplier, broker and market participant relationships to support transactional activities, understand customer and supplier needs, find opportunities and bring value.* MERCHANDISING STRATEGY EXECUTION: Implements and monitors short term merchandising plans for a specific commodity or market, providing ideas and insights to support broader merchandising strategies.* RISK & EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT: Monitors market, credit, price, volume and operational risks associated with cash positions, futures hedges, contracts and physical flows and escalates or recommends mitigation actions in alignment with business guidelines and risk management expectations.* CROSS FUNCTIONAL EXECUTION & COLLABORATION: Collaborates with logistics, supply chain, plant operations, finance, pricing, technical, trading, commercial, analytics and operational teams across businesses to support efficient execution of physical flows, contracts and merchandising activities.* MARKET INTELLIGENCE & INDUSTRY PRESENCE: Engages with market participants and industry networks to gather customer, supplier and market insights to support market intelligence and business opportunities.#LI-BG1**Qualifications*** Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.* Flexibility to work off-hour activities and events as necessary including, but not limited to corn harvest, producer marketing meetings, etc. (up to 10%)**Preferred Qualifications*** Commodity merchandising experience* Agriculture industry experience* Customer service experienceEqual Opportunity Employer, including Disability/VetAt Cargill, we care about your safety and want your job search experience to be a positive one. Unfortunately, there are scams out there where individuals pretend to be Cargill recruiters to try to collect personal information or request payment. Please know that Cargill will **never** ask you for money during the hiring process, and in most cases, we only accept applications through our official careers site, with the exception of some roles in our production plants. If something doesn't feel right or you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us. To learn more, visit our Notice on Fraudulent Job Offers.To apply using chat/text, please click Apply Now button OR use this link to create a login to apply.To apply please click on APPLY TO THIS POSITIONJob Post Date: 10/23/26Here are some other jobs you may be interested in applying for.| | || - | - || Cargill, Inc Olathe, Kansas | Cargill, Inc CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa || Cargill, Inc Fort Dodge, Iowa | |6 people are interested in this job.