St. Louis, MO

Job Title
VP- RaboResearch Analyst - Animal Protein

Job Description

Our Organization:

Rabo AgriFinance LLC ("RAF") is a leading financial services provider for agricultural producers across North America. Solely focused on agriculture, RAF is part Rabobank, a global financial services leader offering wholesale, rural and retail banking services in more than 40 countries worldwide and one of the world's largest banks, with over $650 billion in assets. Founded by Dutch farmers over a century ago, Rabobank remains true to our core mission: to create value for our customers, our employees, and the local communities where we do business. With over 40 offices across the U.S., RAF provides clients with knowledgeable local teams and exclusive access to global market research in a variety of sectors, including grains and oilseeds, protein and specialty crops

JOB OVERVIEW/PURPOSE

Conducts high quality analysis and market research on priority issues and trends impacting specific U.S. agribusiness sub-sectors as needed to support the broader goals of the global organization. Area of focus includes the North American (US, Mexican and Canadian) beef supply chain, and other topics impacting the broader Animal Protein industry; all within the parameters of RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness (RaboResearch). Identifies the issues driving change along beef supply chains in North America, to form a view on how these issues will develop over the coming 3 to 5 years, and communicate these issues and the associated opportunities and risks to internal and external stakeholders. Effectively builds, shares and applies knowledge on subjects relevant to each assigned sector, in order to support the bank's activities in F&A and to bring commercial value to clients. Provides guidance and support to other analysts as needed.

RaboResearch is Rabobank's knowledge center in Food & Agribusiness (F&A) and is staffed with analysts located around the globe. This position is part of the Americas regional team, reporting hierarchically to RaboResearch North America. On both national and regional levels, RaboResearch provides commercial support to rural and wholesale banking by preparing research reports, delivering presentations for clients, contributing to M&A pitches, and providing sector knowledge. RaboResearch profiles and positions the bank as the leading F&A knowledge bank through high quality research and presentations; supports risk management within the bank through critical analysis and effective communication; and builds and shares F&A knowledge within the Rabobank Group. North American-related activities account for a majority of the time allocation for this position, but it also supports all global Rabobank stakeholders.

Supervision & Supervisory Responsibilities

Under administrative direction - The employee is responsible for carrying out programs or functions within the scope of established goals and objectives. Judgment is exercised in interpreting practices and procedures and resolving most work problems. The employee has broader responsibility for planning, coordinating and organizing his/her own work. Work is reviewed on a results basis.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Major Accountabilities/Essential Duties

• Analyzes and researches assigned key agricultural issues that are important to the assigned sectors across North America.
• Takes ownership of research process from conceptualization to delivery of final product.
• Helps provide value chain and company analysis for credit applications, consulting and corporate advisory projects. Where applicable, supports other analysts in gathering and analysis of information supporting research projects. Provides input into internal policies and proposals covering the target sectors, and provides presentations to management and other internal stakeholders as required.
• Supports the formation of sharing networks with industry associations.
• Research-Performs research (Proposes ideas, initiates, collects, defines, manages quality and continuity) to support the local, regional and global sector research agenda. Produces high-quality views (original, thought leadership ideas, backed up by data/analysis) that are commercially relevant (opportunities/risks). Aligns with other analysts on research agenda. Produces high quality research and analysis of target sectors for use by both internal and external stakeholders. Identifies and refers commercial opportunities within the target sectors for Rabobank in rural, business or corporate banking, finance, and mergers/acquisitions. Supports other analysts in producing thought leading research within their sector.
• Reporting/output- Prepares quality research publications targeted at rural, business banking and corporate clients. Produces reports on the back of research, including global sector quarterly and yearly reports; Industry Notes, presentations; tailored client reports; and RaboResearch slide packs.
• Client Engagement-Engages with clients by delivering thought leadership on key strategic questions. Initiates new business ideas/insights for clients. Gives presentations to client audiences and stakeholders. Shares global sector views with clients on boardroom level and local sector views where applicable. Contributes to F&A transactions for global and regional clients.
• Profiling-Supports the profiling of Rabobank as the F&A thought leader to its clients by creating unique, innovative and differentiating views on F&A sectors and companies. Prepares and delivers papers and presentations to profile RaboResearch within the bank to its internal stakeholders. Provides media commentary on key issues relating to target sectors.
• Global Cooperation-Contributes to the RaboResearch knowledge base by sharing and aligning new reports and views in the Global sector library (SharePoint) and within the regional teams, and by being an active member in regional and global sector teams.
• Performs all other job duties as assigned by supervisor.

Essential Duties:

Knowledge

• Coordinates and supports studies; initiates studies. Proactively identifies research questions/issues relevant for the team and coordinates with the relevant team leader. Proactively develops views on clients, sector trends, latest news topics food & agri wide (cross sectors). Actively participates in (knowledge) networks; directs and sets up networks. Cross references all work of local and global team colleagues
• Acts as an expert within and outside of the organization and acts as a thought leader on behalf of the bank. Contributes as a differentiating factor in business generation for the bank by generating new business ideas/insights for clients.

Job Complexity

• Generates ideas for research products, develops outlines and creates the medium to deliver the content. Handles very complex research for the Global F&A sectors. Performs custom research for internal top clients. Expert on one or more sectors, deep understanding of cross- sector and trans-regional linkages.
• Proactively presents research reports and presentations for internal or external customers.
• Capable of engaging with CEOs and Senior Executives and being able to have discussions on the company's strategy.

Supervision

• Under administrative direction - The employee is responsible for carrying out programs or functions within the scope of established goals and objectives. Judgment is exercised in interpreting practices and procedures and resolving most work problems. The employee has broader responsibility for planning, coordinating and organizing his/her own work. Work is reviewed on a results basis.

Qualifications / Required Work Experience and Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Business, Economics, Finance, or related field required with 3+ years of experience in Agricultural research, consultancy, business development or F&A banking. Graduate degree in related discipline desirable.

Job Skills and Knowledge

Essential: Proficient with: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Internet

Logical and analytical, with excellent quantitative and qualitative research skills. Strong knowledge of agriculture and agribusiness. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with high level of competence in report structuring, preparing and delivering presentations. Practical and results-oriented, with strong level of self-motivation in order to deliver services to meet internal and external client expectations. Manage priorities in a multi-project workload, working to deadlines. Identify, plan and conduct analysis in order to deliver results on a research or marketing project. Resourceful in sourcing industry and company specific information. Sound judgment and initiative. Work well in partnership with colleagues, leading by example through own behavior. Ability to work productively in a team, think critically and debate issues. Ability to represent the bank in a professional manner to external customers from corporate, industry and farm environments. Ability to build and maintain lasting relationships with internal and external clients. Must be able to travel throughout bank's footprint to perform required duties ( 25% to 50%). 80% of travel is typically domestic.

Client Engagement

• Thought leadership
• Presentations to clients
• Key strategic sector views
• New business ideas and insights

Profiling

• Interviews, articles and media appearances
• Presentations to congresses and to audiences internally and externally
• Presentations to Industry conferences

Global Cooperation

• Globally consistent, trans-regional and cross sector views
• Globally aligned execution of activities
• All global RaboResearch knowledge available for global analysts

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Ability to effectively speak, read, and write in English is essential, and Spanish language skills are desirable.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS AND REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to conduct statistical/econometric analysis.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or schedule form. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

We Offer:

With healthcare and insurance costs on the rise, Rabo AgriFinance employees enjoy a first-class benefits package, featuring a selection of medical coverage and investment options to meet your personal needs. Our benefits program includes:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health care spending account
• Dependent care spending account
• Basic life insurance plus AD&D insurance
• Optional life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401(k) program
• Health and wellness seminars
• Tuition reimbursement

Rabo provides equal opportunity in employment to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information, medical condition, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, military service or veteran status, victims of domestic violence, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Rabo also prohibits harassment of any individuals on any of the bases listed above.

Consistent with this policy, Rabo embraces diversity and welcomes employees and applicants of all backgrounds. Our goal is to create an environment that is inclusive, drawing upon the strengths of the diversity of our workforce to exceed the expectations of our clients and customers.