Analyst, Strategy Acceleration

Exciting Opportunity to Join Our Legacy of Environmental Leadership!

About Us: At Arcwood Environmental, we are more than just a company; we are pioneers in industrial waste management, committed to creating a cleaner, safer world. Since our inception during the environmental movement of the 1970s, we've been at the forefront of solving complex environmental challenges. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana with a dedicated team of 2,000+ employees spread across the United States, we provide innovative and compliant solutions to thousands of clients in diverse industries.

Why Arcwood?

• Impactful Work: Be part of a team that makes a real difference. Our comprehensive services range from hazardous waste management and emergency response to onsite support and technical solutions, allow us to solve our customers' waste challenges. We are part of the solution. We don't generate any waste ourselves.
• Growth Opportunities: At Arcwood, your contribution is valued beyond your job title. We believe in the power of continuous learning and growth, encouraging every employee to expand their skills and take on new challenges.
• Safety First: Your health and safety are our top priorities. We foster a culture where every employee is empowered to act safely and ensure the well-being of their colleagues. Our mantra is Safe and Compliant, Always.
• Collaborative Environment: Together we can achieve much more. Join a supportive and dynamic team where your ideas and efforts are recognized and rewarded.

Our Commitment: We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and innovative workplace where every employee can thrive. As part of our team, you will have the freedom to contribute your expertise wherever needed, ensuring the success of our mission to protect the environment.

Our Vision: Our vision is to be the most trusted partner in the environmental services industry. We put our customers first and deliver agile, sustainable, and innovative solutions. We commit to nurturing top talent and creating lasting value for our customers, shareholders, communities, and the planet.

Our Ownership: Arcwood Environmental is backed by the EQT Infrastructure VI fund, enhancing our capabilities, and expanding our reach. EQT is a dynamic global investment powerhouse managing EUR 232 billion in assets (EUR 128 billion fee-generating). With a focus on Private Capital and Real Assets, EQT owns and supports leading companies across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, fostering sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership. This exciting ownership positions us for continued impacts and growth in the future.

Analyst, Strategy Acceleration
As an Analyst, Strategy Acceleration you will be instrumental in driving high-impact growth and efficiency initiatives at Arcwood Environmental. Reporting directly to the Vice President, Strategy Acceleration you will collaborate with operations, commercial teams, and functional departments on a variety of strategic initiatives including operational and commercial excellence, organizational redesign, post-merger integration, and digital transformation.

You will be responsible for owning parts of high-impact cross-functional projects as part of the broader Strategy and Transformation team. You will leverage best-practice project and change management approaches to drive value-creating initiatives. The ambition for the Strategy and Transformation team is to become a career catalyst for high-potential future leaders by creating opportunities to engage with various parts of the business, work on high-impact projects, and actively contribute to the company's strategic direction.

Keys to success in this transversal role is a strong ability to contribute insights and recommendations, build trust-based relationships, and collaborate effectively with leaders and teams across the company.

Essential Functions & Requirements:

• Prioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies, processes, and maintaining safe practices at all times
• Contributes to, owns, and drives workstreams within high-impact projects across the organization, including assigned Company Full Potential Plan (FPP) initiatives, post-merger integration (PMI), reorganization, pricing, and digital transformation
• Analyzes large, complicated, and sometimes noisy data sets to find actionable business insights; provides fact-based recommendations based on analyses and aligns with stakeholders on path forward
• Analyzes and recommends improvements to key business work processes, including identifying the current state, pain points, opportunities for improvement, and utilizes data-driven feedback loops to develop recommendations for a future state with implementation and change management plans
• Drives workstreams using best-practice project and change management approaches, creating sustainable value creation outcomes
• Supports the Vice President, Strategy Acceleration in prioritizing high-impact projects aligned with resource deployment, corporate strategies, and FPP goals
• Identifies incremental value-creating opportunities, flagging them to the Vice President, Strategy Acceleration and incorporating them into the prioritized portfolio
• Flags shortfalls, risks, or roadblocks identified in value-creating projects to Strategy and Transformation leadership and recommends remediation plans to recover lost value or address delayed implementation timelines
• Tracks and provides regular reporting on project statuses to the Strategy and Transformation team and senior leadership
• Delivers measurable EBITDA impact through assigned projects focused on operational efficiency, commercial performance, functional optimization, and organizational agility
• Maintains the ability to travel 25-50% of the time to non-HQ locations (operating sites, customers, Arcwood offices, etc.) for in-person collaboration and specific efforts
• Takes on additional duties as assigned to support the team and organization

Education:

• Bachelor's degree (required)
• MBA (preferred)

Experience:

• 2+ years of experience leading workstreams in high-impact environments (required)
• Previous experience working as part of a high-impact, high-performing agile team (required)
• Demonstrated experience with and proficiency in data analytics tools including Excel (required)
• Advanced analytics and statistics capabilities including R, Python and Power BI (preferred)
• Experience in the environmental services industry or in industrial production and process industries (preferred)

Competencies:

• Ability to contribute to high-impact projects, ideally owning workstreams within the projects, and delivery of tangible results
• Strong ability to support large complex projects including coordinating across stakeholders, prioritizing tasks, executing own work
• Strong ability to work with large, complicated, potentially disjointed / noisy data including gathering, analyzing, and interpreting into actionable insights
• Ability to maintain an independent perspective of what is best for the organization to drive successful outcomes across various stakeholder points of view
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• Regular and predictable attendance to perform the functions and requirements of this role

Benefits, Compensation, & Workforce Diversity:
Arcwood offers competitive pay and bonus incentives. Benefits include choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending or health savings accounts, employee and dependent life insurance, short and long-term disability, 401(k) savings plan with 7% company match, and tuition reimbursement.

Equal Opportunity Employer – Veterans & Disabilities

A post-offer drug screen and background check will be required.

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