Agri-Commodity Procurement Analyst: Data-Driven Sourcing

SKRETTING AS; Lunde; On-site; NOK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive terms

Strong pension and insurance scheme

Sports, health and cultural activities

Job summary

Nutreco is seeking a Procurement / Agri-Commodity Analyst to join our Global Procurement team in a role focused on using market insights and data to guide sourcing decisions. You will support the vegetable ingredients category and help build resilient, sustainable supply chains.

You will work with market intelligence, forward curves, and AI-enabled procurement solutions to turn data into actionable recommendations and measurable value across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in business, procurement, logistics, economics, or a related field.
• In-depth knowledge of Agri-Commodities, markets, indexes, and commodity interdependencies.
• Experience with data analysis, reporting, or using data to support business decisions.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with Power BI or similar analytic tools.
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• Challenging and meaningful work in a global industry.
• Competitive terms, strong pension, and insurance scheme.
• Highly innovative and inclusive working environment.
• Support for sports, health, and cultural activities.

Responsibilities

• Support the Category Manager for vegetable ingredients with analyses and activities related to category management, supply chain resilience, market developments, spend analysis, and sustainability objectives.
• Prepare market reports, dashboards, KPI tracking, and analyses that support strategic sourcing and business decisions.
• Gather, analyse, and communicate market intelligence to identify opportunities to unlock value from commodity volatility, improve purchasing decisions, and support cost and margin improvement.
• Develop and maintain forward-looking price curves for key commodities by combining future market index development with technical analysis.
• Conduct backward-looking analysis of market movements, purchasing decisions, forecast performance, and price-versus-index outcomes to identify root causes, capture learnings, and continuously improve forecast accuracy and process efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across Procurement, Quality, R&D, Sustainability, and other stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Engage key suppliers, traders, brokers, and market-intelligence providers to obtain additional market insights, challenge internal assumptions, and strengthen the quality of commodity forecasts and sourcing recommendations.
• Support the onboarding and approval of new suppliers and ingredients, in partnership with the Quality team.
• Coordinate the creation of new suppliers and raw material items together with Master Data Management (MDM) and other relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain and enhance AI-enabled procurement solutions, models, dashboards, and automated workflows, ensuring that data, assumptions, outputs, and user requirements remain accurate, relevant, and fit for purpose.
• Provide clear, fact-based recommendations on whether, when, and to what extent Nutreco should take positions in commodity purchasing, including purchase timing, volumes, contract duration, based on forward curves, scenario analysis, market intelligence, and approved policy and risk-governance frameworks.
• Participate in procurement projects related to supplier management, process improvement, and other value-adding initiatives.
• Contribute new ideas and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen team performance and business impact.

Skills

Agri-Commodities knowledge

Market analysis

Data analysis

Excel

Power BI

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in Business/Procurement/Logistics/Economics

Degree in analytics or supply chain (preferred)

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Nutreco is seeking a Procurement / Agri-Commodity Analyst to join our Global Procurement team in a role focused on using market insights and data to guide sourcing decisions. You will support the vegetable ingredients category and help build resilient, sustainable supply chains.

You will work with market intelligence, forward curves, and AI-enabled procurement solutions to turn data into actionable recommendations and measurable value across the organization.