Enterprise Strategy Lead

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 lead 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 lead will play a key role in driving 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.

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Responsibilities

Strategy Development

• 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

Strategic Planning

• 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

Other Duties as Assigned

• 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.
• 7+ years of experience in Strategic Planning

Additional Qualifications

• Track record of leading projects to completion on a deadline
• MBA or Master’s Degree
• Experience in food, agriculture or energy industry
• Experience in M&A
• Combination of management consulting and industry experience 

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.

CHS offers a competitive total compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Hearing, Life Insurance, Health and Day Care Savings Accounts, Paid Vacation, 401K, Company Funded Pension, Profit Sharing, Long and Short Term Disability, Tuition reimbursement, and Adoption assistance.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.