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Investor Relations Manager - Chicago, IL

In office presence required

Job Summary

• The Manager, Investor Relations will play a critical role within the Investor Relations function, reporting directly to the Director, Investor Relations. This role is responsible for managing the Company's core Investor Relations strategy and operating cadence, including quarterly earnings, investor communications, analyst engagement, and investor events.
• The Manager will serve as a key integrator across finance, legal, corporate communications, sustainability, and senior leadership, ensuring clear, consistent, and credible messaging to the investment community. This position requires strong communication skills, financial acumen, attention to detail, and stakeholder management, as well as the ability to anticipate investor needs and continuously enhance IR processes, tools, and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Investor Relations Strategy & Planning:
• Partner with the Director, Investor Relations to develop and execute the Company's Investor Relations strategy, aligning external messaging with corporate strategy, operational priorities, and long-term value creation objectives.
• Proactively assess market sentiment, investor feedback, and peer positioning to inform messaging, disclosure strategy, and engagement priorities.
• Manage the ongoing evolution of Investor Relations processes, deliverables, and technologies to enhance effectiveness, transparency, and efficiency.
• Earnings & Financial Communications:
• Manage the end-to-end planning and coordination of the quarterly earnings cycle, including earnings releases, prepared remarks, investor presentations, Q&A development, and related SEC filings.
• Act as a central point of coordination across finance, legal, communications, and executive leadership to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance across all investor-facing disclosures.
• Drive continuous improvement in earnings materials and narratives to clearly articulate performance drivers, risks, and outlook.
• Cross-Functional Partnership
• Collaborate closely with corporate communications, financial reporting, legal, sustainability, and financial analysis and planning teams to ensure integrated and aligned external communications.
• Support executive preparation for investor interactions, earnings calls, conferences, and other high-visibility engagements.
• Investor & Analyst Engagement
• Manage planning and execution of the Company's participation in sell-side conferences, non-deal roadshows, investor days, one-on-one meetings, and site visits.
• Play a central role in building and maintaining strong relationships with sell-side analysts and institutional investors.
• Manage process to identify, engage, and retain a high-quality investor base through ownership analysis, peer benchmarking, and targeted investor outreach.
• Market Intelligence, Analytics & Process Ownership
• Own analyst consensus management, including forecasting analysis, variance tracking, and communication of market expectations to senior leadership.
• Enhance and automate IR analytics and reporting to ensure timely, accurate, and accessible insights into market expectations, ownership trends, and peer performance.
• Monitor market developments, competitive dynamics, and regulatory changes to proactively inform IR strategy and leadership discussions.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of proven IR experience in an operationally complex global organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex processes, multiple stakeholders, and tight deadlines in a high-visibility environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial and operational topics into clear, compelling investor messaging.
• Detail-oriented with intellectual curiosity and ability to work efficiently while maintaining high quality results.

Preferred

• MBA, CFA, or CPA designation
• Experience in agriculture industry, food and beverage manufacturing, and/or consumer staples sector

Excited about this role but don't think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

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