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Agronomy & Sustainability Analyst

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Amsterdam
Full-time
2-5 years experience
Hybrid

Work Arrangement

Office Days per Week: 3 days

Key Skills

Agronomy
Sustainability
Data analysis
Crop production systems
Agricultural economics
Data governance
Yield forecasting
Benchmarking
Stakeholder management
Regenerative agriculture
Dashboard development
Problem-solving
Strategic planning
Communication
Data validation

Job Description

 

 

 

Position Title:Agronomy & Sustainability Analyst

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Requisition ID: 45365 

 

 

every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
 
About the role.
 
The Agronomy & Sustainability Analyst plays a key role in advancing McCain’s agronomy and sustainability objectives across the EMENA region. This position is responsible for developing and leading grower and crop data management processes, standardizing agronomic and sustainability data collection, and transforming complex data into actionable insights. By delivering decision-support tools, benchmarking analyses, crop intelligence, and sustainability reporting, the role helps improve agronomic performance, sustainability outcomes, grower engagement, and strategic sourcing decisions across Europe.
 
What you’ll be doing.
  • Develop and implement standardized grower and field data collection frameworks across multiple countries.
  • Establish agronomic and sustainability data standards, governance processes, and quality controls.
  • Analyze grower practices and crop performance to identify key performance drivers and continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Create benchmarking tools and reports that compare agronomic performance across growers, regions, and production systems.
  • Act as the business owner and subject matter expert for crop monitoring and yield forecasting tools.
  • Monitor production, quality, and climate-related risks during the growing season and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Collect, validate, analyze, and report sustainability and regenerative agriculture data to support local and global sustainability objectives.
  • Develop dashboards, analytics, and reporting tools that support agronomy, sourcing, contracting, variety allocation, and strategic planning decisions.
  • Partner closely with the SCA & Data team to support system integration, tool development, and dashboard implementation.
  • Support sourcing optimization and business decision-making through data-driven insights, performance analysis, and forecasting.
What you’ll need to be successful.
  • MSc degree in Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Data Science for Agriculture, or a related agricultural discipline.
  • Strong understanding of crop production systems, agronomic practices, grower management, and agricultural economics.
  • Experience working with agricultural datasets, sustainability metrics, analytics platforms, and performance reporting tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex agronomic information into meaningful business insights and recommendations.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to data quality and governance.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence diverse audiences.
  • Fluent English language skills.
  • Dutch and/or French language capability is preferred depending on location.
  • Passion for agriculture, sustainability, innovation, and data-driven decision making.
  • Ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
About the team.
 
Reporting to the Director of Agronomy and Applied Research, this role is part of the Agriculture function supporting the EMENA region. The position collaborates extensively with Agronomy, Procurement/Sourcing, Operations, Global Agriculture, and SCA & Data teams, as well as external partners including growers, cooperatives, ag-tech providers, and farm management system providers. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports and offers the opportunity to shape the future of data-driven agronomy and sustainability across Europe.
About McCain.
 
What we offer:
  • Attractive salary
  • 25 vacation days plus 11 additional ADV (ATV) days based on a 40-hour workweek.
  • Pension plan with McCain contributing two-thirds of the premium.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional development.
  • A high degree of autonomy and flexibility in organizing your work.
 
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Leadership principles.
 
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
 
AI & Digital Capabilities.
At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
 
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
 
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

 

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know  and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. 

 

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here. 

 

Job Family: Agriculture

Location(s): NL - Netherlands : North Holland : Amsterdam || FR - France : Auvergne Rhone Alpe : Grenoble || FR - France : Auvergne Rhone Alpe : Lyon || FR - France : Bretagne : Rennes || FR - France : Marne : Matougues || FR - France : Nord : Villeneuve-d'Ascq || FR - France : Occitanie : Montpellier || FR - France : Occitanie : Toulouse || FR - France : Oise : Compiegne || FR - France : Other : Paris || FR - France : Other : Reference job description || FR - France : Pas-de-Calais : Bethune || FR - France : Pas-de-Calais : Harnes || FR - France : Pays De La Loire : Nantes || NL - Netherlands : Flevoland : Lelystad || NL - Netherlands : Gelderland : Wezep || NL - Netherlands : Limburg : Maastricht || NL - Netherlands : North Brabant : Cuijk || NL - Netherlands : North Brabant : Helmond || NL - Netherlands : North Brabant : Tilburg || NL - Netherlands : Other : Reference job description || NL - Netherlands : Utrecht : Duurstede || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Kruiningen || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Lewedorp || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Rilland || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Yerseke  

Company: McCain Alimentaire SAS 

Core Responsibilities

The role involves developing and leading grower and crop data management processes to standardize agronomic and sustainability reporting across the EMENA region. It also requires transforming complex data into actionable insights to support strategic sourcing, yield forecasting, and continuous improvement in agricultural performance.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MSc degree in Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Data Science for Agriculture, or a related discipline. Strong analytical capabilities, experience with agricultural datasets, and proficiency in English are required, with Dutch or French language skills preferred.

Benefits

  • Attractive salary
  • 25 vacation days
  • 11 additional ADV (ATV) days
  • Pension plan
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexibility

About ''

Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Company size: 10,001+ employees

At McCain, we believe food plays an important role in people’s lives, with the power to bring individuals, families, and communities together. As a privately owned family company since 1954 with a presence in over 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000+ people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $16 billion. Through our investment and innovation agenda, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato and appetizer products. At McCain, sustainability goes to the heart of our purpose as a business. For us, this purpose means working to put agronomy at the forefront of all we do to support the development of healthier soils which, over time, can lead to more sustainably sourced food. It means reducing our climate impact and improving the nutritional profile of our portfolio while also supporting the communities where we operate. 💛 #WeAreMcCain

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