Specialist - Agriculture & Agribusiness Insights

Your Impact

You will focus on accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth through deep sector expertise and leveraging advanced analytics to shape clients' strategies, boost productivity, and drive innovation across the global food system. You will both support the Agriculture Practice more broadly and join a client service team and take ownership of a workstream to solve some of the toughest challenges our clients face.

You will dive into multiple aspects of a client engagement—whether you are analyzing market data, testing hypotheses, developing investment strategies, or presenting recommendations. Acting as a critical thought partner and sector expert, you will provide market intelligence and actionable insights that shape the strategic decisions of our private capital and agriculture clients.

Your work will help clients reach their goals and create lasting improvements in their industries by translating complex market dynamics into compelling investment narratives, driving client success, and strengthening the firm's thought leadership in the agriculture sector.

• Tracking and interpreting global agriculture and agribusiness market trends, ranging from crop and livestock dynamics to agricultural infrastructure.
• Developing forward-looking views on pricing, margins, and industry inflection points to help clients successfully navigate risks and second-order effects.
• Delivering competitive intelligence by applying an equity-analyst mindset to monitor leading agribusiness players and building robust, repeatable frameworks to evaluate revenue growth, cost structures, and strategic positioning across various cycles and regions.
• Shaping strategic insights by proactively shaping hypotheses and injecting fact-based sector context into case teams, allowing you to rapidly address critical questions on market sizing, competitive dynamics, and growth.
• Empowering the practice by serving as a trusted advisor to senior consultants, partners, and practice leadership. By communicating your insights with clarity and confidence, you will ultimately help strengthen the credibility, consistency, and market positioning of our Ag Insights team.

Qualifications and Skills

• Undergraduate degree with excellent academic record required, ideally in agricultural economics, agribusiness, economics, finance, business, applied economics, data analytics, or a related agriculture-focused field
• 4+ years’ experience in agribusiness banking, equity research, commodities analysis, strategy consulting, or industry economics
• Deep knowledge of global and regional agricultural value chains, including a strong conceptual understanding of key industry market drivers, price-volume dynamics, and/or agribusiness trends
• Experience working with complex datasets, including time series data, company financial statements, and/or operational market benchmarks
• Excellent organizational capabilities, including the ability to initiate tasks independently and see them through to completion
• Proficient in rational decision making based on data, facts, and logical reasoning. Ability to create work product-focused materials / outputs, which may include PowerPoint decks, Excel models, articles, or other written deliverables
• Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment
• Ability to work or attend meetings outside of traditional business hours or take on projects with limited or no notice at times
• Ability to travel to and work in varying environments that may be challenging and/or not accessible (e.g., factories, hospitals, mines)
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and local office language(s), with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels