Commodities Intern

**Job Description - Industrial Placement - Commodities**

Based west of London

**Gain valuable business experience, develop your knowledge of economics and get a head start in your career.**

**Our business**

In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as a subscription data provider to many of the world’s top manufacturers and retailers. These companies rely on our extensive pricing data, analysis and forecasts, delivered through our cutting-edge SaaS platform. Mintec Analytics helps procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their company’s profitability.

Our continued success is a direct result of our talented employees, and we continually seek exceptional people. If your passion to support clients is matched by a desire to continually learn and develop as part of a successful growing business, then we would love to hear from you.

**The placement**

**This placement offers you the opportunity to understand the process of researching and clearly communicating agricultural market intelligence. With support from more experienced analysts, you will be vastly trained in developing your skills and knowledge around research methods, data analysis, agricultural market fundamentals, and macroeconomics. With the food and beverage industry facing various inflationary pressures, there’s no better time to join Mintec, which is at the forefront of supporting industry participants to navigate these challenging times. The role is also a hybrid position that allows you to start your career learning from reputable analysts in-person whilst also having the flexibility to work from home.**

**Our values**

We know our clients and customers and outthink the competition to be trusted to deliver solutions to markets. We always speak the truth, operate with facts, have an independent opinion, and push back with respect. We drive performance, innovate with ideas, pursue excellence, and set and achieve our commercial targets. We adopt a world view; we collaborate without boundaries, show social and cultural respect, and use a global and local lens. We elevate people, set high standards, coach for high performance and recognising & rewarding talent and colleagues’ contributions. We execute with discipline, simplifying the agenda, building repeatable processes, and holding people accountable.

Working with us, you will build skill sets in economics, data intelligence, communication, adaptability and much more.

**What you will be doing**
- Interpreting market research data, formulating insight, and making recommendations based upon research findings
- Providing commodity insight/data for Mintec’s online platform and observing, participating in new product development projects
- Building and maintaining contacts in the industry and collating information from key industry participants
- Performing primary and secondary market analysis
- Delivering continuous improvement in market knowledge
- Continually challenging, refining, and improving operational processes to achieve improvement in productivity and quality of service

**About you**

You will have:

- An interest in commodities and what may impact prices
- Be studying towards a relevant degree (i.e. economics, finance)
- High numeracy skills
- A keen eye for detail
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex issues in a clear, concise, and coherent manner
- Strong organisational and administration skills with ability to deliver work to set deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills, both within Mintec and in client-facing situations
- Be a self-starter and quantitative analysis of data
- Writing skills of a high standard
- Experience of working with data and Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, be driven to achieve the best results

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract, Internship
Contract length: 6 months

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bourne End: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location