Senior Strategist and Analyst

Agreena

, Denmark

Posted on: 2022-06-02

Category: agritech

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

We are developing our online commodity marketplace which allows farmers to find more sellers and buyers and to identify the best possible deals out there. We are looking forward to giving you access to the Agreena platform, from which we will enable farmers to easily access and identify the best prices on agricultural commodities delivered by both local and international market players. Both farmers and trading houses will be able to post offers in this open cross-border online market place. We hope you will join us on this journey towards a more open market.

Agreena is a multi-sided platform and marketplace providing farmers with access to the carbon markets. Join our mission to provide farmers with new opportunities to invest in an ever more sustainable future both commercially and environmentally.

Our Business Development team is at the heart of Agreena’s strategic growth while also providing critical cross-functional support for management of the organisation.

The team collaborates internally and externally to develop and execute well-defined strategic initiatives across all functional areas including carbon science, regulatory affairs, product, technology, finance, marketing, and sales. It deals with a wide range of partners, geographies, industries, technologies, and emerging business opportunities.

The team is responsible for:

Identifying and executing new business and corporate development opportunities.
Negotiating, closing, and implementing major partnerships and strategic alliances.
Providing programme and project management for the company’s most critical cross-functional initiatives.

The team does this by:

Developing visionary, yet pragmatic, strategic initiatives and alliances encompassing product, platform, intellectual property, channel distribution, and new business opportunities. Mitigating risks and maximising opportunities to create immediate and long term value.
Clearly communicating strategic initiatives internally and externally and bringing peers and colleagues along as the initiative is developed, implemented, and managed. Connecting the initiative across geographies and functions balancing key objectives.
Monitoring and continually reassessing initiatives considering a rapidly changing regulatory environment and competitive marketplace. Providing financial and strategic analysis of impact on the businesses and its operations.

The Business Development team is looking for a Senior Strategist & Analyst

The Senior Strategist & Analyst is responsible for monitoring industry trends and policy developments, identifying and analysing relevant technological innovations and partnership opportunities, and maintaining a database and analytical models regarding regenerative agriculture and the broader carbon markets. They are responsible for synthesizing and presenting relevant insights to help the company make the right decisions, address key challenges, and identify new ways to grow. The role will identify and articulate business needs and provide solutions to critical business issues and decisions.

Core Activities:

Strategy
- Provide competitive analysis on various companies’ market offerings, identify market trends, pricing/business models, sales and methods of operation
- Summarise insights from analysis and clearly communicate analytical findings in a cohesive story; and articulate argumentation and recommendations for executive management
- Develop and communicate strategy to address competition, changes in regulations and customer preference, and improvements in technology and go-to-market tools
- Formulate strategy for new offer, partner, product, and platform initiatives

Research
- Remain on top of market trends and digest policy-related news and regulatory updates to assess impact on business and operations
- Own data and information on customers, partners, competitors, regulations, technology and marketplace and consolidate information into actionable items, reports and presentations
- Identify new business opportunities and evaluate potential partners to support product, platform, and market development

Analysis
- Drive insights into markets and competitors
- Undertake market analysis/modelling, metric reporting, and operational support related to the company’s strategy
- Provide analytical support to all aspects of the deal negotiation process
- Perform financial analysis and operational modelling for strategic initiatives
- Support Agreena's overall strategy by identifying critical questions and performing ad-hoc analyses

REQUIREMENTS

Significant working experience from investment banking , strategy consulting or corporate strategy role is essential
Strong financial modelling and analytical skills with exceptional conceptual thinking ability
Strong communication skills: you’re able to articulate complex concepts in a simple way
Experience in start-up environment is preferable
Experience or interest in the regenerative agriculture sector and carbon markets is ideal
Degree in related field (finance, engineering, science) is essential, MBA from top-tier global institution is ideal
A passion to support farmers
Fluency in English

WHAT WE OFFER

A unique opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing scale ups and drive the sustainable transformation of one of the world's most important sectors.
Competitive salary with a centrally located modern office at Copenhagen
A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture with 15+ nationalities. We believe work should be fun and always put people before the process.

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ABOUT US

Join our mission to make farming sustainable.

We believe that if you want change, it has to be good for business. Agreena provides solutions to farmers that drive both environmental and financial sustainability. Within one year, we have helped farmers across 10 countries to convert more than 100K hectares of land to regenerative farming practices. Agreena is a well funded (recently raised €20M in Series A round) , Danish growth company.

We are led by passionate people and backed by amazing investors. Our team is a diverse mix of purpose-driven people working from Denmark (HQ), the UK, and Poland. We are 15+ nationalities (and counting!). We're now on the hunt for passionate people to join us in our mission to make farming financially and environmentally sustainable.

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