Business Strategist

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Golden Agri-Resources Europe & Americas (GAR) is part of Singapore based Golden-Agri Resources Ltd, which is one of the largest stock exchange listed global players in bulk commodity production and trading. The company was founded almost four decades ago, is family-owned and has pioneered in the field of sustainability years ahead of competition. Sustainability today has become a core business on itself, feeding populations globally whilst safeguarding the environment.

The group opened their European offices in 2015, making it still a young, ambitious and entrepreneurial company which has established year on year solid growth since the start. We are active in the trading of bulk commodities and oleochemicals in Europe and Americas.

GAR has offices in the Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, USA. Italy has been the newest brand office in Milan. We pride ourselves for being a well-established employer with competitive compensation and an entrepreneurial work environment. Our professionals are valued for being resourceful and finding opportunities to develop and grow the company further.

At GAR Europe & Americas we cherish and live up to our cultural of Integrity, Positive Attitude, Commitment, Continuous Improvement, Innovation and Loyalty.

We want to provide sustainable and superior quality agribusiness and consumer products, solutions and services to create value for all our stakeholders. Our main goal is to become a partner of choice in our markets as the best, fully-integrated, global agribusiness and consumer product company.

We have a driven team of approximately 110 people across Europe and the Americas and are now looking for a pro-active, positive-minded and entrepreneurial professional to join our team and help us further professionalize our company and grow our business.

Are you ready to join us on our mission? If so, please read further!

The Role

We are now looking for a Business Development Strategist to join our team in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The strategist will be involved in business development projects in Europe, the USA and Latin America and will become responsible for generating opportunities for the company in these regions, developing concrete plans and ensuring implementation in close collaboration with commercial and operational teams who will execute the developed plans. (Senior) stakeholder management is an important part of the role and requires strong communication and presentation skills. The strategist will be in contact with business relationships to gain understanding of markets and insights that might lead to building business cases or in case of due diligence in MnA trajectories.

1. Transform commercial leads into business cases and management proposals, integrating new business into the existing environment.
2. Conduct market research and analysis in the agricultural commodities sector; investigate new business opportunities, strategic ventures, and market entry.
3. Engage in business expansions, including new products, segments, markets, trade flows, assets, and M&A activities.
4. Develop/apply deep understanding of international (bulk) logistics, supply and demand models and trading.
5. Understand the (macro)economic and political factors that influence the sector and apply this knowledge to the projects.
6. Prepare business plans, proposals, and presentations for senior management.
7. Collect data, build comprehensive models and simulations, performing sensitivity analysis to test certain scenario’s.
8. Make working capital estimates, ROE, ROCE models, IRR and NPV valuations.
9. Track business profitability, costs, and risks, providing key overviews for management.
10. Manage and coordinate projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery.
11. Maintain and update strategy-related databases and records.
12. Support the COO in executing operational strategies and initiatives for business growth and efficiency.
13. In case a positive investment decision is made, assist in proper handover to business and measurement of benefits (& compare against business case for future learning).

The role will be reporting to the Manager Business Development, based in Singapore.

Qualifications

1. Around 2-3 years of experience in consultancy, business development, or a related field with a strong understanding of business development processes and strategies.
2. Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field (Master's degree is a plus).
3. Proficiency in Spanish is an advantage, fluency in English a must.
4. Proficiency in financial analysis and modelling is an advantage.
5. Experience with Microsoft Office and data analytical tools like Power BI.

Personality

1. Strong organizational skills with a high degree of accuracy.
2. Meticulous and hands-on.
3. Self-motivated with initiative, looking for areas for improvement.
4. Comfortable working in a multicultural team and a dynamic, evolving environment.
5. Capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
6. Ability to handle tight deadlines and work well under pressure.
7. High level of education and experience within an office environment.
8. Organized and logical, willing to adapt quickly to changing policies and procedures.
9. Be able to work as part of a team in a fast paced and pressured environment, communicating effectively with both colleagues and clients and following verbal and written instructions.
10. Able to efficiently solve problems relating to accounting/finance.
11. A humble team player and independent thinker.
12. Good communicator and dynamic.
13. Comfortable working in a relatively unstructured, ambiguous and multi-cultural environment.
14. Comfortable working in a small structure, start-up type, where tasks and responsibilities are in constant move.

What we offer

1. We offer an entrepreneurial and international environment where developing opportunities for growth is valued.
2. A competitive compensation plan with pension contribution by employer.
3. Flexibility on working hours.
4. Professional development of our employees is important to us, therefore we offer several training and development opportunities both locally as well as globally.
5. Company outings, Christmas dinner and this year we held our first well-being month, filled with many helpful yet fun activities because we care about our employees’ well-being and their social connection!
6. Healthy snacks and drinks in the office every day.
7. At GAR we are fully focused on sustainability. It’s for this reason that we have moved to a new full sustainable office next to Central Station of Utrecht where daily commute is done by public transportation.

Please note that we often incorporate an assessment and reference checks in our selection procedures.