Corporate Strategy Associate

The Corporate Strategy Associate provides a tremendous opportunity to deepen and broaden your knowledge of Land O’Lakes’ food and agribusiness segments, accelerated professional development, and exposure to the executive leadership team. Associates are integral members of project teams and manage critical growth initiative workstreams while partnering directly with internal business partners.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning: Support the development and implementation of corporate strategic plans in alignment with organizational goals, market trends, and competitive dynamics. Continuously assess and refine strategies to ensure responsiveness to evolving business landscapes.

Market Industry Analysis and Insight: Partner with Economic Research team to develop comprehensive market analysis, including competitor benchmarking, industry trends, and customer insights. Translate findings into actionable recommendations to inform strategic decision-making processes.

Strategic Growth Initiatives: Support strategic initiatives sponsored by executive leadership, with primary focus on growth, in consulting-like engagements. Develop rigorous, fact-based, quantitative analyses to support recommendations. Build and manage relationships with company executives, supporting and influencing decisions aligned with enterprise and business unit strategy. Collaborate cross-functionally and influence without authority to drive business decisions and advance long-term strategic efforts.

Candidate Profile

• Curious & Analytical – Intellectually curious with a proven ability to dig beyond surface-level information, conduct primary/secondary research, analyze complex data, and synthesize insights into actionable business implications.

• Driven & Results-Oriented – Highly motivated self-starter with a strong sense of urgency and flexibility to manage multiple priorities; committed to delivering consistent, high-quality outcomes

• Problem solver – Skilled at transforming ambiguity into clarity by framing complex challenges into structured questions and actionable steps to validate or disprove hypotheses

• Strong Collaborator – Trusted team player with a track record of quickly building credibility and influencing cross-functional teams; adept at partnering with business leaders to drive alignment and execution.

• Excellent Communicator – Demonstrates professional confidence and clarity in verbal communication and presentations; proven ability to articulate complex business strategies effectively to executive leadership.

• Business Acumen – Skilled in applying quantitative and qualitative strategic and financial frameworks to evaluate growth opportunities; brings foundational knowledge across key disciplines such as marketing, supply chain, and finance/accounting.

Experience and Education:

• BA or higher
• 4 or more years of broad-based business/commercial experience with a strong preference to strategy and/or consulting – will consider someone in finance, marketing, or supply chain
• Track record of outstanding performance while working on high-impact projects and initiatives, including project management experience
• MBA - preferred
• Food and/or agribusiness industry experience – preferred

Salary range: $107,680 - $161,520 (in most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges)

About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.

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