Freight Commodities Market Researcher

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Signal Group Full time

About the Role

: We are seeking a skilled Freight & Commodities Market Analyst to join our analytics team at Signal Group. This role requires a passion for analysis, content creation, and storytelling to help participants in complex and volatile trading domains stay informed. The ideal candidate will deploy analytical skills and attention to detail to continuously learn, improve, and enrich the underlying data. At Signal Group, we value respect, inclusivity, and teamwork, and we are committed to finding individuals who embody these values in every role.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Generate and Promote Weekly Reports: Produce detailed reports on commodity and freight markets, ensuring high-quality insights, and actively promote these reports to relevant stakeholders.
  2. Ad-hoc Analysis and Industry Commentary: Write and promote timely, ad-hoc pieces that respond to industry news, trends, or client needs, and place content in top industry media outlets.
  3. Hands-on Data Work and Quality Assurance: Engage directly with Signal data, spending significant time on quality assurance and refining data to ensure it's client-ready and easily drives reports, and lead efforts to improve the data productization process.
  4. Data Scouting and Collection: Scout, collect, and integrate data from sources outside of Signal to complement existing datasets and drive comprehensive analysis.
  5. Client Consultations and Event Speaking: Visit clients to provide consultative analytics and reporting, and represent Signal Group as a thought leader by speaking at relevant industry events.
  6. Media Relations: Build and maintain relationships with journalists and media outlets globally to ensure broad coverage and placement of Signal's market insights.
  7. Internal Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as an internal expert on commodities, providing feedback to product teams to shape features that meet client needs and market demands.

Requirements

What You Bring to the Team

  1. Bachelor's degree in economics or engineering from a Tier 1 university.
  2. More than 2 years of experience as an analyst or consulting role.
  3. Strong motivation to deep dive and understand the market, its developments, and trends.
  4. SQL knowledge.
  5. Strong logical/analytical skills.
  6. Experience working with large, disparate, and/or unstructured data sets, possess excellent analytical ability, at ease with working with databases, and able to highlight trends and use complex data to support decisions.
  7. Ability to work with several stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
  8. Knowledge of Python is a plus, but not a prerequisite.
  9. Detailed knowledge of data analysis methods.
  10. Strong English knowledge (both written and spoken).
  11. Prior experience in the commodities industry is a plus.

Benefits

What We Offer:

  1. Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
  2. Coverage under the company's collective health insurance plan.
  3. Opportunity to work alongside experienced people with deep knowledge in software engineering, data science, and shipping business who are always eager to mentor.
  4. Signal Group's hybrid remote work policy currently includes 6 working days at premises per month, during which happy hour events take place.
  5. 2-4 weeks of onboarding training to prepare you for your new role, having the opportunity to meet about 30 trainers while diving deep into our products and/or the shipping world.
  6. Career growth opportunities and a structured development discussion every 4 months.
  7. Personal learning budget for training, seminars, conferences (750 to 2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
  8. Regular team bonding events and activities.

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