Freight & Commodities Market Analyst

About Signal Ocean: Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group. Our primary product, The Signal Ocean Platform, helps shipping and commodities professionals navigate their complex decision making. Driven by advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence, our technology suite provides tailored, exclusive insights that support our clients in achieving performance and efficiency. By securely handling and combining private and public shipping data flows, and applying advanced analytics, insights are delivered over web and mobile applications, as well as through a rich set of APIs and SDKs. Our backend architecture is abstracted to modularly offer deep analytics capabilities that are leveraged in the solutions that we offer or can be directly embedded in our client’s system topologies.

About the role: We are looking for a freight and/or commodities market analyst to join our analytics team. This dual role calls for passion for the type of analysis, content creation and storytelling that helps participants in these complex and volatile trading domains stay informed, while at the same time deploying analytical skills and attention to detail to continuously learn, improve and enrich the underlying data.  At Signal, we are committed to finding people who are respectful, inclusive, and team players, embodying these values in every role.

What you will do in this role:

• Generate and Promote Weekly Reports: Regularly produce detailed reports on commodity and freight markets, ensuring high-quality insights. Actively promote these reports to relevant stakeholders.
• Ad-hoc Analysis and Industry Commentary: Write and promote timely, ad-hoc pieces that respond to industry news, trends, or client needs. Place content in top industry media outlets like TradeWinds, Reuters, and Lloyd's.
• 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.
• Data Scouting and Collection: Scout, collect, and integrate data from sources outside of Signal to complement existing datasets and drive comprehensive analysis.
• 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.
• Media Relations: Build and maintain relationships with journalists and media outlets globally to ensure broad coverage and placement of Signal’s market insights.
• 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:

• Bachelor in economics, engineering from Tier 1 universities 
• 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, possess excellent analytical ability, at ease with working with database 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 

Benefits

What we offer:

• Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
• 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’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.

Strict adherence to Confidentiality, Intellectual Property and Non-Compete provisions is expected.

All applications will be considered under the terms and conditions of confidentiality in accordance with the regulations of personal data protection.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. At Signal, we believe that diversity of opinions, approaches and viewpoints is key to our innovation and success and we encourage that with our hiring, development and rewards practices. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristics by law and take actions to eliminate those from our workplace.