Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategy

About the Role

This role is based at Cargill's Global Headquarters in Wayzata, Minnesota and offers a hybrid work environment with a minimum of four (4) days in office and up to one (1) day remote each week. The Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategy partners to assess enterprise and portfolio performance, analyze market and competitive trends, and identify growth opportunities to support the development of corporate and business unit strategies that drive long-term value creation. With limited supervision, this job also develops strategic insights, recommendations, investment cases, and associated financial and execution plans to inform strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Analysis & Scenario Development: Structures moderately complex business problems, develops hypotheses, and conducts qualitative and quantitative analyses to address strategic questions and generate insights.
• Portfolio & Performance Assessment: Partners to assess industry structure, business models, key profit drivers, and organizational dynamics to synthesize performance insights that inform strategic priorities.
• Strategic Recommendations & Value Creation: Prepares data-driven recommendations and supporting materials to capture identified strategic opportunities, including acquisitions and divestitures, linking recommendations to financial and execution plans to ensure value creation.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment: Cooperates with cross-functional teams to support effective execution processes.
• Work Planning & Delivery: Develops and implements moderately complex workstream plans to deliver insights and recommendations aligned to defined timelines and targets, and supports the implementation of strategy execution plans.
• Leadership Communication & Strategic Synthesis: Prepares clear written and verbal communications that summarize workstream-specific analyses and findings to support partners' understanding and informed decision-making.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to work onsite in Wayzata, Minnesota.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in strategy development across growth and transformation topics.
• Strong knowledge of financial modeling and corporate finance.
• Experience in the agricultural, food, or commodities sectors is a plus.

Pay

The expected salary for this position is $90,000 - $110,000. This position is also eligible for a discretionary incentive award, dependent on company and personal performance.

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits program, including medical and other benefits (dependent on position and hours worked).
• Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.