Senior Agriculture environmental risk analyst

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,381 and EUR 7,687 (scale 10) for a 36 hour week
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

Senior Agriculture environmental risk analyst

Are you passionate about risk mitigation and adaptation ways to support farming practices and agribusinesses to become more resilient? Do you have broad expertise on internationally diverse farming systems? Are you energized to explore changing environmental transition- and physical risks? Then RaboResearch is looking for you.

You and your job

As senior agriculture environmental risk analyst you will work in one of the most dynamic international departments of Rabobank: RaboResearch. You’ll take the lead in analyzing transitional and physical environmental risks, such as biodiversity loss or pollution, that our food & agribusiness loan portfolios and clients may be facing. You’ll actively research and look for opportunities to mitigate these risks and adapt, in line with Rabobank's Nature Vision. As the majority of environmental impacts and risks of many agri commodities originate upstream in the value chain, from farm inputs to farm gate, you have in-depth expertise of farming practices in developed regions. You are capable of running research projects independently but within the broader context of a bigger (complex) organization with many stakeholders. As such you are a key liaison and sparring partner for sectors specialists and quantitative analysts within RaboResearch and for other Rabobank departments, such as Risk.

Inspirational practical examples

The team’s combined forces directly contribute to making a difference for Rabobank and our clients by tackling a broad range of complex questions. For example:

• How will various physical environmental risk events, such as increasing frequency and severity of droughts, floods, pollution, or soil degradation, impact business models of different food & agricultural (F&A) sectors in various regions?
• Could you advise on a methodology for consistent and forward-looking risk impact assessment across different agricultural sub-sectors?
• Which risk mitigation and adaptation opportunities are most feasible for F&A clients in short and longer term and what drives their adoption?
• Where do (potential) win-wins and trade-offs exist within e.g. climate and biodiversity risk mitigation and adaptation levers?

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Doing research is at our core. You take ownership of and perform research projects from conceptualization to timely delivery of high-quality research products. Your research brings new unique insights that drive decision-making. It focuses on risks from broad environmental issues such as biodiversity loss, water scarcity & pollution, land use (change) and soil health on F&A sectors in developed regions. Using your existing network and fact-based public and proprietary information sources, you translate insights into implications and opportunities for our F&A clients and the bank’s risk assessments. You identify and prioritize new research needs and align these with our team’s resources, planning and knowhow requirements.

• Cooperation and stakeholder engagement in a dynamic environment. You leverage your expertise, creativity, and your social skills to support and align internal stakeholders to navigate new sustainability questions. You take responsibility to drive quality outputs, to simplify and optimize processes and to guide (junior) colleagues. As a team player you are used to cooperate and to create buy-in from others via contagiously passionate and convincing reasoning. Confronted with opportunities or setbacks, you proactively propose solutions. Working in a dynamic changing environment is not new to you. Many sustainability metrics are still evolving and circumstances may change rapidly, but you can deal effectively with uncertainty and volatility.

• Our goal is to inform and inspire. Your insights add value to your stakeholders and you share these in an easily understandable and concise manner. With publications and presentations you reach a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, from senior executive management to execution level.

We achieve more together than alone

We believe in the power of difference and cooperation. Bringing together people's unique knowledge and perspectives as well as differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our Food Systems Research team at the bank’s highly valued knowledge center: RaboResearch.

‘It is a privilege to work with a team of colleagues with such a broad and diverse set of expertise, backgrounds and skills, collaborating to deliver insights to support clients and the bank in growing a better, more sustainable, world together. Will you join us to help answering a wide range of sustainability, especially nature-related, questions?’
Marjan van Riel, Global Strategist Food Systems Research within RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness.

Your over 140 colleagues in RaboResearch around the globe, and 10 colleagues within Food Systems Research, can't wait to meet you. How can you make them stronger in bringing a broad sustainability perspective to the table and connecting the dots strategically but also practically between various environmental and economic criteria?

Speaking of Rabobank: we are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food that is produced within planetary and social boundaries. In the Netherlands, we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• While your roots lie in agriculture expertise, you have an academic working and thinking level (Master’s degree or PhD in (agricultural) economics, agribusiness or similar)
• 5+ years of work experience as an expert in an agricultural or F&A sector
• Demonstrable experience with financial risk analysis
• Experience with quantitative analysis of sustainability issues is an advantage, especially related to soil health, and broader environmental topics such as water, pollution and biodiversity
• Next to being an excellent analyst, you are a good organizer, take initiative, create support, cooperate and work result-oriented and resiliently with a high dose of execution power
• You have the ability to translate complex research into clear take-away messages in an engaging way
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with proficiency in English, both verbally and in writing. Other language skills, incl. Dutch, are an advantage