Project Business Analyst (Early Career)

Here at URUS, we have big goals! Our ambition is to become a billion-dollar company by 2030 and we are well on our way! As a member of our Management Acceleration Program (MAP), you will play a key role in driving that continued trajectory. You will work on future strategic plans, design innovative business models, build industry partnerships, collaborations, help vet potential acquisitions and get exposure to international markets. This is a rare opportunity to accelerate your product and project management abilities as well as refine your interpersonal and presentation skills.

The URUS Management Acceleration Program is designed for fanatically driven, results-focused, agile, and daring individuals that are early in their professional journeys and aiming to accelerate into leadership positions. The program features 2-3 rotations at 9-12 months each in various parts of the organization with full-time management-level placement after the program. Senior leaders and executive team members serve as coaches and mentors to help program participants gain valuable on-the-job learning and development.

As a Business Analyst (BA) within the MAP program, you will collaborate closely with URUS businesses and key stakeholders. You will help screen, vet, and close new products, acquisitions and other business opportunities as well as create meaningful value for URUS’ cooperative members and clients. Responsibility will reach across URUS’ domestic and international markets.

• Market Assessment:
• Develop deep-dive and competitive landscape assessments
• Deal Implementation & Integration:
• Market/customer validation, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and risk assessment; make recommendations based on data
• Identify customer challenges, gaps, and pain points in our unique bovine space
• Assess potential new geographies, customer segments, strategic partnerships, and/or sales channels
• Opportunity Assessment:
• Help manage and support post-closing activities related to new transactions:
• Oversee URUS’ Deal Pipeline to track, rank and prioritize current deal flow and hotlist
• Help select best-in-class companies/products for potential collaboration

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Minimum 2-5 years of professional work experience
• Onsite at our world headquarters in Madison, WI (must be willing to relocate if not local)
• Candidates with a strong understanding of/experience in agriculture will be given preference
• 25%+ domestic and/or international travel
• B.S. degree or higher in agriculture or business

Skills & Competencies

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Able to work with and organize large volumes of data and manage concurrent projects
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to collaborate in evolving environments with multiple stakeholders
• Able to create high level reporting documents and make compelling presentation to leadership teams and board
• Knowledge of other foreign languages would be an asset
• Exceptional financial and business analytical abilities
• Proactive business relationship management skills with a commitment to completing projects
• Motivated and able to influence others
• Exceptional oral and written skills; strong decision-making capacity and critical thinking abilities
• Outstanding time management skills and high attention to detail
• Entrepreneurial mindset

About The Company

As a holding company with cooperative and private ownership, URUS is a family of businesses at the heart of the dairy and beef industry – AgSource, Alta Genetics, GENEX, Jetstream, PEAK, SCCL, Trans Ova Genetics, and VAS. Each of these organizations has its own unique identity, products, and services. These companies work globally to provide cutting-edge dairy and beef genetics, customized reproductive services to maximize conceptions, dairy management information to take producers to the frontline of progressive dairy farming, and an array of products and services to help bovines reach their full genetic potential. URUS Group has revenues of approximately $600 million, has 26 operating companies in 15 countries, and employs approximately 2,400 people. URUS is a part of Pon Holdings, a Dutch family-owned group of companies with revenues of $8 billion and about 16,000 employees.

Company Culture Alignment

• Trust – We choose to be vulnerable, speak up, and dare to be wrong
• Empowerment – We choose to encourage people to own their decisions
• Challenge – We choose to question and be questioned for better performance
• Accountability – We choose to follow through and hold each other to that standard
• Act – We choose to execute our plans when we are confident they will work
• Results – We choose results over comfort and popularity
• Transparency – We choose to be open and share