Derrick Riggan
Wichita
Summary
Experienced procurement director specializing in Beef and Pork supply chains, with a focus on vendor management and price negotiation. Proven ability to navigate complex procurement landscapes, implement SAP solutions, and drive operational efficiencies while maintaining strong supplier relationships.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Prepared Foods Beef and Pork Procurement Director
Cargill Food North America
12.2024 - Current
- Responsible for the annual procurement of 100 million pounds of Beef and Pork to Cargill’s Deli and Cooked Plants
- Cargill fiscal year 2026 gains compared to the Beef USDA of $33 million dollars
- Led the successful negotiation of the raw material with Cargill Beef Pricing for new items with key customers Aldi and Costco
- Led our team through multiple SAP Coda Go Live’s and continue to lead solutioning complex issues post go live
Further Processed Procurement Manager
Cargill Protein
12.2017 - 12.2024
- Responsible for the procurement of 300 million pounds pork products to 11 of Cargill’s Cooked, Deli, and Case Ready plants
- Responsible for managing the relationships with the largest pork packers in the industry including but not limited to Smithfield, JBS, Tyson, Seaboard.
- Successfully grew our supplier base during the last 18 months despite extreme supply chain constraints
- Looked at for forward market insights, understanding live hog costs, futures markets, hog weights, slaughter levels to prepare sales and business team with Raw Material prices for customers.
- Establish price solutions and risk mitigation for strategic customers
- Manage a procurement team responsible for our Beef, Pork, Poultry buy for our Cooked, Deli, and Case Ready plants
- Experience in working with plant operations, scheduling and forecast team, vendor pricing managers, data and systems lead, risk management team
CFD Pork Pricing Manager/CTCM Poultry and Pork Buyer
Cargill Food Distribution & Cargill Turkey and Cooked Meats
11.2013 - 01.2017
- Enhanced CFD profitability as a customer to Pork BU through strategic collaboration
- Have grown the break-even margin amount from the 2014 $237,132 level to FY ending 2015 level of $6,551,140
- Leveraging a better together mentality, CFD has had its 2 best years of pork earnings
- Grown and maintained an extremely good working relationship with the Pork Team to maximize profitability for both BUs
- Improved flow of market information between Pork and CFD, enabling both BUs to make informed market-based decisions
- Delivered timely market updates and pricing insights that supported sales in securing contracts with new customers
Pork Buyer
Cargill Food Distribution
Woodridge
06.2010 - 11.2013
- Increased Pork volume from 145,000 to 280,000 distributive weekly to date.
- Maintained double digit margins while doubling pork volume.
- Restructured pork buying process to enhance competitiveness with new Hispanic retail market customers.
- Managed premium branded programs from Cargill Meat Solutions, facilitating introduction of Sterling Silver, Good Nature, and All Natural Pork to key retail partners.
- Leveraged market and product knowledge to advise customers on emerging trends and opportunities.
- Utilize SAP Reporting Tools to better understand opportunities that exist to maximize margins and increase volume.
Education
Bachelor - Security Management
Southwestern College
Winfield, KS01-2005
Skills
- Supply chain strategy
- Purchasing processes
- Vendor management
- Price negotiation
- Price dispute resolution
- Bid management
- Supplier development
- Cost analysis
- SAP proficiency
- Effective communication
- Purchase order management
Certification
- SAP Subject Matter Expert
- Proficient in SAP Procurement and Sales Order Processing
- GAP Expert Negotiation Training
- Accelerated Leadership Forum through Cargill
Volunteer Experience
- Active participant in the Cargill Cares Community Service activities.
- Feed My Starving Children.
- United Way
- Bowl for Kids’ Sake
- Clean up the river
- Special Olympics
- Serves on Central Community Church Council
Timeline
Prepared Foods Beef and Pork Procurement Director
Cargill Food North America
12.2024 - Current
Further Processed Procurement Manager
Cargill Protein
12.2017 - 12.2024
CFD Pork Pricing Manager/CTCM Poultry and Pork Buyer
Cargill Food Distribution & Cargill Turkey and Cooked Meats
11.2013 - 01.2017
Pork Buyer
Cargill Food Distribution
06.2010 - 11.2013
Bachelor - Security Management
Southwestern College