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Senior Business Analyst at IDH - Sustainable Trade Initiative

IDH - Sustainable Trade InitiativeLagos, Nigeria Data and Artificial Intelligence
Full Time
IDH catalyses positive change by bringing together committed stakeholders from across global markets to create better jobs, better incomes, a better environment, and gender equality for all. Through our unique approach of convening, co-creating, and co-financing, we address critical challenges in value chains, such as deforestation, working conditions and wages, value distribution, and climate change. Our mission is to put people, planet, and progress at the heart of markets.

Your role.

  • As Senior Analyst, you are responsible for carrying out analytics on inclusive business models in smallholder-anchored value chains, markets, and landscapes. The analysis informs convening, funding, and investment activities that contribute to developing more commercially, socially, and environmentally sustainable businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct thorough, high quality field research and data collection for business models.
  • High quality data cleaning, verification, and analysis and business modelling.
  • Coordination and management of stakeholder interviews.
  • Relationship management and strong client communications.
  • Coordination and collaboration with internal IDH clients.
  • Supporting the budgeting, planning and organization of projects within IDH.
  • Articulate strategic insights, recommendations and priorities based on their analysis.
  • Creating thorough and professional reports, combining clear writing with effective and insightful analyses (figures, graphs, visuals)

Who you are.

  • You are someone who deeply values integrity. Treating people fairly and maintaining confidentiality, you ensure that your colleagues and stakeholders feel secure in their interactions with you.
  • You excel in building and maintaining relationships within and across teams, ensuring a cohesive and productive working atmosphere. You are committed to team decisions and work with others to achieve both individual and collective objectives.
  • You have a natural ability to energise and influence others, your communication is clear and simple. You adapt your influencing style to suit different stakeholders, whether they are customers or colleagues, ensuring that you effectively meet their needs and expectations. Finally, your extensive knowledge and expertise enable you to gain the commitment of others, driving success and excellence in all your endeavours while thriving in a dynamic international environment such as IDH.

What you bring.

  • M.Sc. in (business) economics, data analysis, econometrics, financial analysis or similar.
  • 6+ years of relevant working experience, ideally in consulting or private sector.
  • Outstanding analytical skills and ability to drive process for quality analysis and reports.
  • Experience in advising senior external stakeholders at a tactical level.
  • Deep understanding of (financial) business models and experience in building models (proficiency in Excel is a must)
  • Thorough understanding of smallholder-based agricultural value chains (from a private sector perspective);
  • Outstanding presentation skills, incl. building PPTs.
  • Creative and innovation focused.
  • Interpersonal effective relationship-builder, able to inspire and mobilize.
  • Result-oriented, self-propelling and self-organized, eye for detail.
  • Excellent oral and written communications and presentation skills. Fluency in English is essential. French is a pre.

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