**Job Purpose and Impact**

The Research and Development Strategic Account Technical Lead will lead the efforts to develop and implement innovation pipeline identified by both Cargill and customer. This includes actively aligning priorities with strategic account team in Cargill, orchestrating and developing a customer driven R&D team across R&D job family and enabling capabilities to execute the initiatives defined in Customer Development Plan, and meet business goals set for the strategic account.

In this role, you will be the voice of strategic customer’s technical function, you will identify new business opportunities via understanding in innovation strategic fit and technical capabilities. Though the role does not necessarily hierarchical manage a team that executes the solution development, you need to lead, prioritize and report progress made on customer projects in Cargill stakeholders as well as communicate to customer’s technical stakeholders to ensure a co...