Biofuels Corporate Strategy Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Biofuels Corporate Strategy Manager based in the United States. As a Biofuels Corporate Strategy Manager, you will drive strategic initiatives that support the development and growth of biofuels-related business opportunities. You will lead key workstreams, translating complex market dynamics, financial insights, and business challenges into actionable strategies and well-informed decisions. Working closely with cross-functional teams, senior executives, and external partners, you will help shape strategic priorities, evaluate opportunities, and structure collaborative agreements. Your responsibilities will span market research, financial planning, operating model design, and negotiations, giving you broad exposure to high-impact business decisions. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage interdependencies, and ensure initiatives progress efficiently toward defined objectives. This role offers an opportunity to influence business transformation and contribute to the evolving biofuels and agribusiness landscape within a collaborative, fast-paced environment. The position is available remotely across the United States, with an option to work in person at the headquarters in Arden Hills, Minnesota. Accountabilities: - Strategic Workstream Leadership: Lead one to two biofuels-related workstreams within a broader strategic program, taking ownership of day-to-day coordination, execution, and delivery of key objectives. - Strategy Development: Define workstream goals, establish decision-making criteria, identify key questions and priorities, and develop structured plans to achieve strategic outcomes.

- Project Planning and Execution: Determine resource requirements, coordinate activities and milestones, monitor progress, and ensure initiatives remain aligned with broader business objectives. - Cross-Functional Team Coordination: Guide multidisciplinary working teams, bringing together expertise from different functions to conduct research, perform analyses, develop recommendations, and support informed decision-making. - Executive Communication: Provide regular progress updates, strategic recommendations, and decision support to senior executive leadership, communicating complex concepts clearly and effectively. - External Partnerships and Negotiations: Represent assigned workstreams in discussions with potential external collaborators and strategic partners, including executive-level stakeholders, and contribute to the development and negotiation of agreements. - Market Research and Business Analysis: Conduct in-depth primary and secondary research, assess market trends, evaluate business opportunities, and synthesize complex data into actionable insights. - Financial Planning and Analysis: Support financial assessments, business case development, and strategic planning activities to evaluate opportunities, resource needs, and potential business outcomes. - Operating Model Design: Contribute to the development of operating models and implementation approaches that support strategic initiatives, business growth, and organizational effectiveness. - Decision-Making and Problem-Solving: Define key business challenges, formulate testable hypotheses, assess alternative solutions, and establish decision criteria that enable timely, evidence-based decisions. - Workstream Integration: Identify dependencies, competing priorities, and trade-offs between workstreams, coordinating with other workstream leaders to maintain alignment and maximize overall program effectiveness. - Continuous Improvement: Apply sound judgment to balance independent decision-making with stakeholder consultation, ensuring strategic initiatives progress efficiently in a dynamic, project-based environment.