Senior Strategy & Decision Analyst

USA Rare Earth and the Serra Verde Group are building the world s leading rare earth enterprise—a pioneering global company that excels at every stage of the value chain, from the earth to the magnet and beyond. We operate upstream mining and processing operations in Brazil and the USA, midstream metal-making operations in the UK and France, and downstream magnet-making facilities in the USA.

Our vision is to be "The Critical Elements of Progress. Delivered Responsibly. At Global Scale." We are committed to delivering a secure, sustainable supply of rare earths and critical materials that power the modern world, with an uncompromising commitment to responsible practice. The organization operates a devolved model designed for rapid, scalable growth and the development of entrepreneurial leaders.

For our subsidiary SV Management Switzerland AG, based in Zug, Switzerland, we are seeking to hire a Senior Strategy & Decision Analyst.

The role exists to ensure the Group s most consequential decisions are made with demonstrable Decision Quality (DQ) - that by the time the Board, CEO, or a business unit commits, the decision meets the standard of the six DQ elements: an appropriate frame, creative and doable alternatives, meaningful and reliable information, clear values and trade-offs, sound reasoning, and commitment to action.

Given the close interdependence between strategy and decision quality, this role also carries primary responsibility for elaborating the Group s and Business Unit s cascading strategies, working directly and continuously with the respective leaders - so that strategy and the decisions that implement it are developed together rather than handed off at the end. The role acts as the organization s honest broker: neutral on which alternative wins, uncompromising on the quality of the process that selects it, and on embedding risk-based, optionality-oriented thinking into decisions and their execution design from the outset.

• Hold regular meetings and workshops with leaders across the organization to elaborate and implement their cascading strategies, help identify their key growth initiatives and strategic issues, and collect bottom‑up input for Group strategy iteration.
• Assist the Board and CEO with Group strategy definition and contribute to the negotiation of key agreements.
• Help operations translate key growth initiatives and strategic issues into budget inputs, in collaboration with Finance.
• Shape strategy continuously based on what is happening on the ground and in interactions with stakeholders, and vice versa - ensuring strategy work and decision support reinforce each other rather than operating as separate tracks.

• Work with the executive team to frame the organization s most consequential decisions: define the decision hierarchy (policy, strategic, tactical), clarify what is being decided, by whom, and against which values, before analysis begins.
• Structure complex decision situations into clear decision elements - decisions, risks/uncertainties, and values - using influence diagrams, decision hierarchies, and strategy tables.
• Ensure a genuinely creative and distinct set of alternatives is developed for every major decision, including hybrid strategies, and explicitly preserve optionality in how decisions are executed.

• Lead the quantitative evaluation of strategic alternatives: stochastic analysis for financial and operating and project development decisions, probabilistic financial modelling, Monte Carlo simulation, decision trees, tornado and sensitivity analysis, and real options valuation for staging, deferral, and expansion flexibility.
• Quantify uncertainty rigorously -…