Market Analysis Specialist for Commodities and Freight Markets

5 hours ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Signal Group Full time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly motivated Market Analysis Specialist to join our analytics team. This role requires passion for data analysis, content creation, and storytelling to inform participants in complex trading domains. As a member of Signal Group, you will deploy analytical skills and attention to detail to continuously learn, improve, and enrich underlying data.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. Generate and Promote Weekly Reports: Produce detailed reports on commodity and freight markets, ensuring high-quality insights and actively promoting 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, placing content in top industry media outlets like TradeWinds, Reuters, and Lloyd's.
  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. 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 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 and Qualifications:

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

Compensation and Benefits:

  • Estimated salary: $80,000 - $110,000 per year, depending on experience.
  • Coverage under the company's collective health insurance plan.
  • Opportunity to work alongside experienced people with deep knowledge in software engineering, data science & shipping business who are always eager to mentor.
  • Signal Group's hybrid remote work policy currently includes 6 working days at premises per month, during which happy hour events take place.
  • 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.
  • Career growth opportunities and a structured development discussion every 4 months.
  • Personal learning budget for training, seminars, conferences ($750 to $2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
  • Regular team bonding events and activities.

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