Corporate Strategy Analyst
Job Description
Position Overview
The Corporate Strategy Analyst plays a vital role within the Land O’Lakes Corporate Strategy group, collaborating closely with Land O’Lakes leadership to craft winning strategies that drive sustained, profitable growth in the dynamic and global Food & Agriculture sector. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute significantly to shaping both the company's future and the broader industry landscape.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategy Development: Collaborate with Land O’Lakes leadership to assess potential market entry opportunities, innovate new business models, and outline long-term corporate strategies that align with the company's overarching goals and objectives.
- Strategic Planning: Develop comprehensive strategic plans and initiatives aimed at capitalizing on identified opportunities. This may entail evaluating the organization's existing capabilities and resources to determine how best to leverage them for market expansion.
- Problem Solving: Analyze and dissect ambiguous and intricate business challenges, formulate, and test hypotheses, and conduct thorough qualitative and quantitative data analysis to drive actionable and viable solutions.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with diverse global senior stakeholders, each with their unique perspectives and goals, to identify promising business prospects and formulate tailored strategies that effectively address their needs.
- Market Analysis: Conduct in-depth research and analysis on industry dynamics, including market trends, growth drivers, competitive landscape, and regulatory frameworks. Evaluate potential market opportunities and associated risks to inform investment decisions in related ventures.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Economics, or Engineering/Mathematics preferred.
- 1 to 2 year of experience work on strategic and transformation growth projects.
- Experience with Analyzing data and telling a story
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint); virtual collaboration tools (Teams, Zoom)
- Curious self-starter, eager to drive results in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Exemplify Land O’Lakes wide leadership competencies: Collaboration, Innovation, Courage, Ownership, and Decisiveness
Essential Functions/Work Environment:
- Hybrid Work Environment; minimum 2 days at Arden Hills, MN Tuesday and Wednesday weekly.
This role demands a blend of analytical competence, strategic thinking, and effective communication skills to navigate the complexities of the Food & Agriculture sector and drive impactful outcomes for Land O’Lakes.
Salary range: $69,040 - $103,560
In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
Neither Land O’Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
Top Skills
What We Do
Land O’Lakes, Inc. is a 100-year-old farmer- and retailer-owned cooperative originally formed with the purpose of working together to create new market opportunities. Fast forward to today and we’ve built on that uniting spirit, developing a comprehensive and leading view of agriculture while maintaining an unwavering commitment to delivering strong annual performance and long-term, shared success with our member-owners.
Land O’Lakes believes farmers are the entrepreneurs who truly change the world for the better. By working together with our member-owners, we can continue to strengthen our system, champion farming’s true potential and place our farmer- and retail-owners at the heart of creating a better world for all.
