[Hiring] Business Analyst, Planning & Analytics @Arva Intelligence

Role Description

The Business Analyst, Planning & Analytics plays a critical role in helping Arva scale efficiently and sustainably. This role is responsible for forecasting and optimizing organizational capacity across our lines of business, ensuring that our teams, resources, and supported acres remain aligned with business demand and delivery commitments.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Portfolio Management, the Business Analyst will be a key contributor to:

• Workforce planning
• Acreage allocation
• Portfolio forecasting
• Operational planning

This individual will analyze complex operational and business data to identify trends, anticipate constraints, and provide leaders with clear, actionable insights to support better planning and decision-making.

The ideal candidate brings a strong analytical foundation, experience working in operational or business planning environments, and the ability to translate complex data into straightforward, business-focused recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Analytics, Economics, or a related field.
• 3–8 years of experience in capacity planning, workforce planning, operations, portfolio management, business analytics, sales operations, or a related discipline.
• Experience building forecasts, resource models, or operational planning tools.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets, including complex formulas, data modeling, pivot tables, scenario analysis, and large dataset management.
• Strong experience gathering, organizing, and analyzing data from multiple sources.
• Ability to independently obtain, consolidate, and structure the data needed to support business decisions.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with exceptional attention to detail.

Requirements

• Build and maintain forecasts for workforce capacity, acreage, and portfolio demand across lines of business.
• Analyze current and projected capacity to identify gaps, constraints, and opportunities before they impact delivery.
• Support resource allocation and scenario planning to ensure teams are aligned with evolving business needs.
• Build and maintain analytical models, dashboards, and reporting that provide visibility into operational performance and capacity.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to understand business drivers, translate them into planning assumptions, and evaluate potential tradeoffs.
• Turn complex datasets into clear insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Monitor forecast accuracy, identify changes in business conditions, and continuously improve planning methodologies.
• Support portfolio-level planning and reporting for leadership, including key risks, trends, and capacity considerations.
• Establish and improve processes, tools, and analytical frameworks that enable Arva to scale planning capabilities as the organization grows.

Benefits

• This is a chance to apply strong analytical skills to work that matters.
• You will help shape how a fast-growing company scales its impact, supporting the growers, partners, and customers who are making agriculture more resilient and sustainable.