Performance & Planning Analyst Advisor

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Performance & Planning Analyst Advisor job provides thought leadership in the development and implementation of data reporting strategies to drive data informed decision making across the Food NA Sales organization. As a recognized subject matter expert in the field, this job transforms data into compelling narratives that highlight opportunities, risks, and root causes. This job partners closely with Senior Sales leaders to understand their needs, identify innovative opportunities, share trending analysis and partner with commercial teams to build growth strategy reporting for our Food business. This job presents complex data insights through experienced understanding of Power BI dashboarding to effectively deliver business outcomes while playing a strategic role in encouraging a data driven culture and improving the value of data for business growth and innovation.
Key Accountabilities

• STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP: Develops and implements highly complex strategy to support business objectives, providing insights, a future vision and plan and recommendations to senior management.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Cultivates positive relationships with key partners to understand their data needs, provides insights and finds improvement opportunities, and ensures reporting solutions address key objectives and are strategically integrated into business processes.
• SALES DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE: Understands sales funnel, lead-to-cash, CRM objects to drive growth insights through reporting and expanding metrics in pipeline reviews and business growth planning.
• COMMUNICATION & STORYTELLING: Lead Leadership-ready narratives with clear directions and actions through visualizations and executive summaries.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Advanced understanding of business strategies with the ability to tie to sales strategy and growth planning.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Leads ongoing efforts to improve data analysis and reporting practices and cultivates a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.
• REPORTING & VISUALIZATION: Creates comprehensive reports and dashboards, ensures data visualizations effectively communicate insights and are user friendly, timely and aligned with business needs.
• LITERACY: Builds and develops central initiatives to mature data consumption and analytics capabilities.
• TECHNOLOGY & TOOL SELECTION: Identifies, recommends and implements analytics and reporting tools to ensure the team has the most effective technology for data processing, visualization, and reporting. reporting.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.
• Experience creating and utilizing Data Visualization through tools such as Excel, Power BI, and/or Tableau.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building self-serve semantic layers and enterprise metrics standardization.
• Understanding of Machine Learning and Modeling
• Advanced understanding of Visualization tools (Looker Studio, Qlik, C3.ai, others)

Compensation Data
The expected salary for this position is approximately $140,000 to $180,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet