Job Description

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About the Unit

Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet, to fulfill our vision of a collaborative society, a world without hunger and a planet respected. To meet these commitments, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming and work closely with partners throughout the whole food value chain to develop more climate-friendly crop nutrition solutions. In addition, we are committed to working towards sustainable mineral fertilizer production. We foster an open culture of diversity and inclusion that promotes the safety and integrity of our employees, contractors, business partners, and society at large. Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has a worldwide presence of about 17,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries.

Responsibilities

The Associate, Business Operations supports the D&G (Digital & Growth) management team within the Business Operations vertical. This role is responsible for budget tracking and project management sup-port, consolidated budget and performance reporting across markets, vendor coordination, market op-erations support, team engagement, and other administrative support. The purpose of the role is to give management timely, accurate visibility into spend, headcount, and program performance, while keeping day-to-day D&G operations running smoothly and efficiently across markets

Budget Tracking

• Manage and maintain the budget tracking sheets and headcount master tracker, ensuring data accuracy and version control across updates.
• Run monthly budget review cycles with markets: set and communicate timelines, send reminders and follow up on outstanding tracker inputs, and validate figures for accuracy and completeness before submission.
• Consolidate monthly budget decks and market performance decks ensuring consistent formatting and clear variance commentary.
• Prepare and submit the monthly Corporate Reporting package to Finance, ensuring alignment with corporate reporting standards and deadlines.
• Monitor actual spend against budget phasing and plan, anticipate and flag potential underspends or overspends early, along with risks and reallocation needs.
• Manage vendor purchase orders (POs) and process vendor invoices in coordination with Finance and Procurement, monitoring spends against approved budgets and ensuring timely payment and accurate cost coding.
• Support annual budget planning and forecasting cycles, including budget phasing, data gathering and template preparations.

Market Activation Tracking Support

• Own the yearly Activation Calendar end-to-end: design and set up the template, define submission guidelines, and brief markets on requirements and deadlines.
• Follow up with markets to ensure timely, complete submissions, and consolidate inputs into a master calendar for leadership visibility.
• Ensure alignment between markets and functions (Product, Tech, Data) on planned activations, so that dependencies, resourcing needs and timelines are agreed upfront.
• Identify scheduling conflicts or gaps across markets and functions and flag them to management for resolution.
• Support on Jira tickets raised by markets, tracking status and comment updates, and follow up with markets or functions where tickets are stalled or need input.
• Act as a point of contact for markets on operational queries related to budget, reporting, or activation planning.

Internal Team Engagement

• Plan and execute D&G team engagements
• Coordinate leadership summits and quarterly townhalls, managing agendas, logistics, stakeholder communications, and on-the-day execution.
• Gather feedback from events and engagement activities to inform continuous improvement of future programming.

Administrative Support

• Prepare presentations, briefing materials, and ad hoc reports for leadership as required.
• Support cross-functional coordination between D&G, Finance, Procurement, and market teams to ensure smooth operations.

Profile

• Possess Diploma in Business or related studies.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Excel, word, powerpoint).
• Communication, organization and time management skills.
• Good with numbers and concepts, financial/budget understanding.
• Ability to report concisely, accurately and promptly on meetings and matters of relevance.
• Proven ability to manage several deadlines at once and work independently, with clear status updates.
• Basic project management skills.
• Familiarity with vendor processes (contracts, POs, invoicing).

Additional Information

Contact details

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Knowledge grows through differences

Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.

As part of our recruitment process, where permitted by local law, we may conduct reference and background checks. These checks will only be performed when deemed necessary for the nature of the job. Candidates will be informed by HR before any background checks are initiated.