Company overview
- Sector
- Retail, E-commerce & CPG
- Sub-sector
- Food Production
- Mandate (derived)
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
- Parent headquarters
- Wayzata, Minnesota, United States
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $154,000,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 27,732
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Bengaluru
- Gurugram
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .GIS
- .NET
- ABAP
- ABB Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
- AC500 PLC
- AI
- AVEVA InTouch HMI
- AWS Analytics
- AWS App Mesh
- AWS Database Migration Service
- AWS SDK for JavaScript
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS VPN
- AboveNet
- Act!
Public leadership
Gautam Handoo
Vice President, Digital Technology & Data
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
Cargill, Incorporated is a privately held, family-owned American agribusiness and food corporation founded in 1865 and headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota. It is the largest privately held company in the U.S. by revenue, operating across food, agriculture, financial and industrial products/services in roughly 70 countries.
- India launch
- 2015
- Maturity
- Scaled Strategic Multi-Function Hub
Founded in 2015 and now described by Cargill as its largest GCC worldwide, CBS India delivers IT, HR, finance, data/AI-ML, procurement and logistics work out of dedicated purpose-built campuses in two cities, with active headcount growth and a stated strategy to insource more technology work.
Timeline
- 2015
Cargill opens its biggest business services center in Bengaluru, the seed of what becomes Cargill Business Services (CBS) India.
- 2022
New Bengaluru CBS office inaugurated at Cessna Business Park (LEED Gold, ~2 lakh sq ft), taking India's combined CBS footprint to ~3 lakh sq ft / 3,800 seats.
- 2025
Cargill announces plans to add 500 jobs to its India GCCs (Bengaluru + Gurugram) over 2-3 years, growing headcount from ~3,000 to ~3,500, while cutting tech outsourcing from 80% to 40%.
Leadership context
Gautam Handoo holds the title Vice President, Digital Technology & Data at Cargill. LinkedIn headline describes him as an 'Enterprise Technology Leader'; listed among attendees/leaders at the MachineCon GCC Summit (Goa, December 2025). No independently verifiable prior-employer or education history found in acceptable sources.
Real estate
Bengaluru: Cargill Business Services campus at Building 9 & 10, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli - opened Aug 2022, ~2 lakh sq ft, LEED Gold certified. Gurugram: office at DLF Building No. 14-C, DLF Cyber City Phase-III, plus a separate Cargill India office at AIPL Business Club Tower-A, Sector 62. Combined India CBS footprint ~3 lakh sq ft with ~3,800 seats.
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- 84
- As of
- 2026-08-26
- Software Engineering - Ag & Trading
- Senior Application Developer
- Platform Engineer
- Associate Consultant, Data & Analytics Reporting
- Consultant, I&O Operations
News and developments
Commodity trader Cargill to add 500 jobs to its Indian global centres in 3 years
Reuters reported Cargill will add 500 jobs across its India GCCs (Bengaluru for tech/data/AI, Gurugram for finance/HR) over 2-3 years, growing headcount to ~3,500 and cutting tech outsourcing from 80% to 40%.
2025-03-04 Reuters (via Yahoo Finance) ↗
Jennifer Hartsock Reshapes Cargill's Technology Operating Model
Forbes profile of Cargill's CIDO describes insourcing plans (targeting 5,000-6,000 directly employed tech staff) and notes Cargill is 'expanding in Bangalore.'
2025-07-02 Forbes ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.