Specialist, Enterprise Strategy Senior
Inver Grove Heights, MN, US, 55077-1721
CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.
Summary
As a member of the enterprise strategy team and reporting to the enterprise strategy director, the enterprise strategy analyst will work with key senior leaders to help define the future of CHS by working on high impact enterprise and business strategy projects. This role will support all aspects of strategy development through activities like competitive and market research, project management, financial modeling, presentation development and other ad-hoc analyses. Additionally, the strategy analyst will play a key role in supporting the annual strategy planning process and subsequently monitoring strategy execution. This role will have a critical impact across the company, ensuring timely, professional support and thought leadership for business, functional and enterprise-level strategies.
The successful candidate will apply a core strategy skill set of analytical problem solving and structured and systems thinking in the design and development of various strategies. The ideal candidate will bring a combination of big picture thinking and ability to go deep into analysis and research.
Responsibilities
- Conduct detailed analyses to drive key strategy activities like market research, competitive intelligence, trends analysis, financial and business case modeling and risk assessments
- Lead the development of presentations and support facilitation of strategy sessions with senior level stakeholders
- Partner with corporate development to conduct strategic reviews to analyze incoming M&A opportunities
- Collaborate with other team members in projects that advance key strategic initiatives
- Support the execution of the annual strategic planning process including but not limited to working with various business and functional teams to craft annual strategic choices and initiatives
- Support the development of effective and timely strategy reviews across the organization
- Manage KPIs and dashboards as necessary for monitoring strategy execution
- Perform other duties as assigned and/or required, including data gathering and ad hoc analyses
Minimum Qualifications (required)
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related field
- 4+ years of experience in strategy, business, marketing, or related fields
Additional Qualifications
- Exceptional analytical skills for key strategy activities like market research, analytical model development and competitive intelligence
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills
- Experience creating professional presentations and materials for a variety of audiences
- Strong financial acumen
- Comfort working across multiple businesses and functions simultaneously
- Mindset of continual learning and growth to advance, and challenge, existing ways of working
- Comfortable interfacing with senior leaders in a professional setting
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex business problems
- Superior organization and planning skills, including the ability to prioritize multiple projects to completion with deadlines
- Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse. #LI-WB1
CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.
Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS.