Job Description

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 Alta Genetics, GENEX, PEAK, SCCL 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 25 operating companies in 14 countries and employs approximately 2,000 people.

THE OPPORTUNITY This role is part of the URUS Management Trainee Program. The program is designed for fanatically driven, results-focused, high-impact performers that are early in their professional journeys and aiming to accelerate into leadership positions to ultimately create long-term careers. The program features three, 6-9 month rotations in various parts of the organization with full-time management-level placement after the program. Senior leadership team members serve as coaches and mentors to help program participants gain valuable on-the-job learning and development.

The Business Analyst (BA) will collaborate closely with URUS subsidiary businesses and key stakeholders. The BA will be responsible to help screen, vet, and close new acquisitions, products, and other business opportunities that meet the URUS' inorganic revenue and asset growth objectives, as well as create meaningful value for URUS' cooperative members and clients. The broader, long-term goal for the role is to help URUS reach its 10-year consolidated revenue and EBITDA targets faster than via organic revenue growth alone. Responsibility will reach across URUS' domestic and international markets, requiring effective teamwork with global business managers and sales channels to help them achieve their business and sales plans/targets as well as other key performance indicators (KPI's).

PILLARS OF TRAINEE DEVELOPMENT

1. MARKET ASSESSMENT:

• Identify customer challenges, gaps, and "pain points" in bovine management, production, health, reproduction, traceability, waste and emissions, data management, and other strategic areas;
• Develop "deep-dive" opportunity and competitive landscape assessments to assess and validate emerging markets that are attempting to address such gaps;
• Help select best-in-class companies/products for potential collaboration, leveraging URUS' worldwide distribution force;
• Assess potential new geographies, customer segments, strategic partnerships, and/or sales channels which could be exploited by URUS' current new product portfolio;
• Enhance URUS' deal pipeline by collaborating with leading AgTech VC's, private equity firms, accelerators, universities, bovine research institutes, and other feeder networks who work closely with innovators.

2. OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT:

• Help triage, screen and assess new product, investment and acquisition opportunities; evaluate alignment with URUS mandate and strategic priorities;
• Oversee URUS' Deal Pipeline to track, rank and prioritize current deal flow and "hotlist";
• Conduct comprehensive due diligence on new deals. Activities may include market/customer validation, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and risk assessment
• Summarize findings, conclusions and recommendations (including go/no-go decisions) in slide deck or report format to help URUS executives make informed transaction decisions;
• Manage due diligence checklists and virtual data rooms;
• Collaborate closely with URUS legal and tax advisors, as well as other expert advisors for market, technical, and/or scientific validation;
• Help draft Term Sheets and review legal agreements.

3. DEAL IMPLEMENTATION & INTEGRATION:

• Help manage and support post-closing activities related to new transactions:
  • New Products: geographical rollout and go-to-market plans, field trials, training programs, salesforce traction, product literature, regulatory compliance, logistics, and other relevant areas;
  • Acquisitions: support integration activities with URUS or URUS Subsidiaries; establish tracking parameters and KPI's to monitor performance;
• Collaborate closely with new product managers to ensure seamless transition of BA's responsibilities at the point of deal handover;
• Deliver timely and comprehensive reporting and recommendations to URUS executive leadership and other key stakeholders.

ORGANIZATION ALIGNMENT & POSITION LOCATION

• This position will report to the URUS Corporate Development Director
• Strong preference is for the candidate to be based in Madison, WI
• The position may require some travel

CAREER PATHWAYS At the conclusion of the Management Trainee development program, the BA will have numerous pathway options within URUS to further develop his/her career:

SHORT-TERM:

• Leadership role within an acquisition or investee target as part of the Deal Implementation Integration phase;
• Product Manager for one or more new products implemented by URUS;
• Manager or Director-level roles elsewhere within URUS or a URUS Subsidiary.

MEDIUM TO LONG-TERM:

Senior leadership roles within the URUS family of companies at a VP, Senior VP, or executive level.

CANDIDATE PROFILE EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• B.S. degree or higher in agriculture or business. M.S. degree would be an asset
• Minimum 2-5 years of professional work experience in finance, venture capital, analyst or corporate or business development is an asset
• Strong understanding of or experience in agriculture is an asset

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Exceptional financial and business analytical abilities, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to collaborate in evolving environments with multiple stakeholders
• Motivated and able to influence others
• Exceptional oral and written skills; strong decision-making capacity and critical thinking abilities
• Proactive business relationship management skills with a commitment to completing projects
• Able to work with and organize large volumes of data and manage concurrent projects
• Outstanding time management skills and high attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• 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

COMPANY CULTURE Alignment

• Trust - We choose to be vulnerable, speak up, and dare to be wrong
• Transparency - We choose to be open and share
• 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