Senior Market Analyst

cargill•Shorewood, MN

6d•$140,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The CBI Sr. Market Analyst will work as a subject matter expert to develop a broad and deep understanding of the general business, industry, competitive and market environment through data driven analysis and compelling insights generation to help business leaders achieve strategic objectives. In this role, you will need to access internal and external data to produce complex analysis of markets, economics, competition and the broader business environment by developing and enabling various analytics, models, analysis and reports that drive business decisions. This position is in Cargill's Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a range of ingredients and branded products including poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience.
Proven track record of working closely with commercial teams in fast changing markets.
Technical background such as "data scientist" working in a market research context.

Nice To Haves

Broad and deep knowledge of market research and analytics tools and methodologies
Track record and hands on experience building unique insights leveraging public data and external views e.g. demand drivers by market, competitors intel, etc.

Responsibilities

Provide thought leadership to gather, organize, synthesize and curate highly complex, ambiguous and diverse data sources to develop and execute highly specialized analysis and advanced analytics and identify and interpret new meaningful trends or patterns.
Apply advanced business and industry knowledge and other contextual data to identify, capture and model critical market insights along with short and long term implications for the business. Collect and model such insights and market analysis into CBI data platform integrating with the existing internal operational data and reports across the business.
Partner collaboratively with key business stakeholders across the organization (Strategy, Marketing, Finance, MSC, PMO, commercial) to generate cross functional insights from multiple markets and diverse sources and activate those insights across the organization to drive strategic, portfolio and commercial decisions to drive performance and achieve business goals.
Provide thought leadership and drive consistent processes to capture data and apply advanced research and analytics tools, methodologies, systems and platforms to continuously improve and optimize market insights, analytics and modeling capabilities, leveraging AI and other advanced tools in partnership with the CBI Data and Analytics team.
Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
Other duties as assigned