Analytics Analyst - Agriculture

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  • São Paulo - SP
  • Permanente
  • Período integral
  • Há 2 mêses
Company DescriptionFastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.Job DescriptionThe RoleThe Grains Analyst is responsible for delivering market intelligence, price forecasting, and analytical insights across global corn, barley, and wheat markets. This role strengthens Fastmarkets' grains coverage by producing timely commentary, enhancing analytical methodologies, and supporting the commercialization of our agriculture analytics products.The analyst will play a key role in evolving our grains analytics offering, currently focused on monthly forecasting and short-term commentary and expanding our capabilities in line with client demand for transparent, actionable insights across feed, food, and biofuel-linked grain markets.The ideal candidate is interested in economic and commodity market research and will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude, juggle various tasks and projects, and meet deadlines.PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
  • Data gathering, analysis, and forecasting
  • Producing written commentary, fundamental outlooks, data visualizations, and price forecasts
  • Building industry knowledge and contacts
  • Client contact and presentations
QualificationsWe recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world's leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLSWe are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
  • Understanding of global food and feed grain production regions and their trade interdependencies
  • Familiarity with how global energy policy impacts agricultural product supply and demand
  • Experience building or maintaining commodity supply/demand models, price models, and short-term forecasting processes.
  • Experience supporting commercial teams or engaging clients with insights and market outlook commentary.
  • Able to critically assess statistical analyses and forecast models and suggest improvements and develop new models
  • Excellent written and verbal English
BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES
  • Manage deadlines across multiple forecasting cycles with strong time-management and task-prioritization skills
  • Willingness to learn new technological tools, new processes, or updated analytics workflows
  • Maintain attention to detail in data, commentary, and forecasting outputs
  • Communicate complex market drivers and forecasts clearly to both technical and commercial audiences
  • Ensure commentary and forecasts are actionable and relevant to traders, processors, food companies, and biofuel participants
  • Build strong relationships with colleagues in analytics, editorial, sales, data engineering/science, and consulting
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.Additional InformationOur ValuesFastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It's this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
  • METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance
  • ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
  • GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
  • INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
  • CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
  • COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.You've read a little about us - now it's over to you!If you like what you've read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it's time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it's used to determine whether or not you'll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we'll ask you on the day.It's vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you're great.

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