Business Insights & Foresight Leader

Role Summary The Business Insights & Foresights Leader is a senior, strategic role responsible for enabling better enterprise decisions by integrating business intelligence, performance analytics, and predictive foresight. This role utilizes multiple sources of intelligence to deliver decision-ready insights, strategic options, and early warning signals that shape growth, investment, and long-term resilience. The role partners closely with Marketing and Commercial leadership to translate data and uncertainty into clear narratives, tradeoffs, and recommendations that influence strategy. Key Responsibilities Strategic Business Intelligence * Establish and govern enterprise KPI frameworks to ensure consistency, transparency, and decision relevance. * Deliver performance intelligence: explain what changed, why it changed, and what it means for future decisions. * Develop and maintain executive dashboards and scorecards tied to strategic and commercial priorities. * Partner with Finance, Demand Management, Sales effectiveness and Marketing to enhance forecast narratives, perform sensitivity analyses, and determine performance drivers. Foresights & Scenario Planning * Lead structured trend, signal, and risk tracking across macroeconomic, regulatory, competitive, technology, and customer domains. * Develop scenarios and future outlooks to inform portfolio strategy and multi-year planning. * Build and maintain early-warning systems with defined triggers, thresholds, and response playbooks. * Translate uncertainty into strategic options that are robust across multiple future scenarios. Strategic Decision Enablement * Serves as a critical advisor to marketing and commercial leaders supporting enterprise decisions such as portfolio management, future investments, external partnerships, and growth priorities. * Propose decisions with explicit implications, tradeoffs, and actionable recommendations—not simply analysis. * Facilitate cross-functional strategy sessions (competitive workshop, multi-year planning, war gaming, and more). * Elevate enterprise decision quality by connecting insights directly to actions and outcomes. Leadership & Operating Model * Define and scale a repeatable Insights-to-Action operating model. * Prioritize work based on strategic value, not volume of requests. * Identify, mentor and develop talent pool for future intelligence opportunities. * Set the standard for insight quality, storytelling, and executive communication. What This Role Is * This role is strategic, proactive, and decision-oriented. * This role is not traditional reporting, research-only, or data engineering. Qualifications & Experience Required * 10+ years of experience in business insights, strategy, analytics, management consulting, or related fields. * Proven ability to influence senior leaders and commercial teams through insights and recommendations. * Strong experience integrating quantitative performance data with qualitative market signals. * Demonstrated success in scenario planning, strategic analysis, and foresight creation. * Exceptional storytelling and communication skills. * Trained and experienced workshop facilitator. * Highly creative and willing to challenge traditional thinking or existing processes. Preferred * Experience in complex, matrixed, or multinational organizations. * Background in commercial, marketing, strategy, or finance leadership roles. * Familiarity with BI tools, dashboards, and analytical modeling (tool-agnostic focus). * Professional history in agriculture or life science industries. * Experience supporting portfolio strategy or multi-year planning. Leadership Competencies * Strategic thinking and systems perspective. * Comfort navigating ambiguity and uncertainty. * Strong cross-functional influence without direct authority. * Bias toward clarity, action, and willingness to make a decision. * High credibility with marketing and commercial leaders. Success Metrics * Improved quality and speed of strategic decisions. * Earlier identification of risks and opportunities. * Transformation from reactive to sustained proactive behavior and focus. * Success in developing a modern BI & Foresights capability from the ground up or scaling it further. * Leadership adoption and satisfaction with insights delivered. #LI-OB1 Corteva Agriscience is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing our differences to enrich lives, advance innovation, and boost company performance. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, military or veteran status, pregnancy related conditions (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), disability or any other protected status in accordance with federal, state, or local laws.