Risk Management Internship

Job Description

About the Company (Cargill)

Cargill is a global family company with a significant size and scale, committed to making a positive impact worldwide. Its core purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Cargill provides a wide range of essential products including food, ingredients, agricultural solutions, and industrial products. They play a vital role in connecting farmers with markets, customers with ingredients for meals, and families with daily essentials such as eggs, edible oils, salt, skincare products, animal feed, and alternative fuels. With 160,000 colleagues operating in 70 countries, Cargill’s products touch billions of lives daily. The company emphasizes its commitment to helping employees achieve their higher purpose.

About the Job: Risk Management Internship

Cargill’s internship programs are designed to offer real-world experience and prepare interns for their career journeys. Interns are welcomed into a supportive community that prioritizes a safe learning environment for growth and skill cultivation. The program provides expansive learning resources, guidance from respected leaders, and carefully curated development courses to equip interns to solve global issues. Cargill values interns’ innovative minds, collaborative spirit, and desire to contribute to nourishing the world, promising that their work, whether local or global, will have a global impact. Interns are encouraged to cultivate curiosity, develop meaningful relationships, and propel their careers.

The Risk Management Internship is a rotational program specifically designed to provide exposure to Cargill Risk Management’s business operations, encompassing both trading and sales functions.

Key Responsibilities (Your Work):

Interns in this role will primarily:
• Help monitor short-term trading strategies and books for specific commodities, markets, or customers, focusing on both speculative and hedged positions.
• Assist teammates in reconciling routine or repetitive profit and loss estimates and reports.
• Monitor customer and competitor activity, as well as industry trends.
• Help implement sales strategies, identify potential customers, and foster relationships with existing customers.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Perform other assigned duties.

Key Capabilities for Success:

Successful interns will demonstrate:
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
• Sound judgment and decision-making abilities, even when outcomes are uncertain.
• Comfort with taking and managing risks, and a willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, along with persuasion and negotiation abilities.
• Effective interpersonal skills, the ability to work in a team environment, and potential for coaching others.
• Essential leadership qualities including integrity, conviction, and courage.
• Motivation and drive to succeed.
• Adaptability and flexibility to thrive in a fast-paced, price-volatile, and changing environment.
• Willingness to relocate and accept challenging responsibilities.

Internship Programming and Benefits:

Cargill provides interns with:
• Comprehensive learning resources allowing for diverse learning paths.
• Access to volunteer and community outreach opportunities, including paid time off for volunteer activities.
• Participation in events that offer exposure to leadership, development opportunities, and networking with cross-functional interns and co-ops across the U.S.

Internship Details:
• Typically 12 weeks in duration.
• Interns are paid hourly for time worked.
• Interns are responsible for their own transportation to and from work.
• Opportunities for travel during the term may arise.
• Outstanding performance and a curiosity to learn may lead to an offer for a future internship, co-op, or full-time position.

Compensation:
• The expected hourly rate for this position is $25.00-$27.00.
• Compensation decisions are influenced by graduation date and eligibility for full-time employment.

Benefits:
• Interns have access to a variety of programs designed to support them. Eligible programs and incentives include:
• Paid time off.
• Mental Health and Wellbeing program.
• Digital Learning Library.
• Housing and Relocation Assistance for those who qualify.
• Minnesota-based employees receive Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals.

Networking and Vibrant Community:
Cargill prioritizes intern development through its outstanding global network, facilitating relationship building, mentorship, and professional contact establishment. The program actively encourages and orchestrates networking opportunities. Interns receive consistent support from university recruiting staff, mentors, colleagues, and their supervisors.

Cargill fosters a vibrant global community that celebrates diversity, reflecting its client base and promoting an intellectually diverse employee group. Business Resource Groups (BRGs) are key to embracing diversity, enhancing inclusivity, and leveraging employees’ talents. U.S. BRGs include the Asian Alliance Network, Cargill Young Professionals Network, Cargill Ability Network (iCAN), Cargill Ebony Council, Indigenous Peoples Network (IPN), Hispanic-Latino Council, Cargill Pride Network, Veterans & Military Support Network, and Cargill Women’s Network.

Job Locations:
• Wayzata, MN.
• The role may be in a plant or office setting, requiring openness to either environment.
• The majority of the work week will be in the office, with flexibility for hybrid work arrangements.

Required Qualifications:
• Right to work in the U.S. not solely based on a student visa or third-party sponsored visa.
• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in economics, finance, business, mathematics, or a related major from an accredited program.
• Graduation between December 2026 and August 2027.
• Ability to complete a 12-week internship in the summer (May/June – August 2026).
• Geographical flexibility and willingness to relocate to Wayzata, MN, if applicable.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and problem-solving skills, collaboration skills, and verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Ability to contribute both as part of a team and individually.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Successful completion, current enrollment, or planned completion of either a micro or macro introductory college-level economics course before graduating.
• Knowledge of commodity markets to translate macro and micro events into local supply and demand distortions.

Cargill is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.