Job Title: Coffee Research Analyst
The Skills You'll Need: Coffee, Commodities, Analysis, Strong Excel
Your New Salary: £75 - £80K plus generous benefits package
Hybrid: 3 days in office (Central London), 2 at home
Status: Permanent Role
Start: ASAP, notice considered
Working hours: 9am - 5.30pm, Monday - Friday (37.5 hour week)
Who You'll be Working For: International commodity merchant.
Coffee Research Analyst - What You'll be Doing:
The Research Team is based in London with sub teams in our origin offices across the World. The Research department provides detailed supply & demand analysis and market insights for each specific commodity to create an in-house trading edge as well as supporting our customers.
You will focus on coffee S&D analysis and reporting. The individual will coordinate external sources of market relevant data & information and combine with data flowing to the research desk from our global origination teams & merchandising centres. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing and fully utilising the advantageous data held across the wider group. As Coffee is a leading commodity within the company, this individual will deal with a diverse range of stakeholders & customers across the business, for which research is a key part of their business. Responsibilities will include:
- Collect & maintain a large and complex database of coffee statistics ensuring that production data is up to date and accurate.
- Keep the approach towards demand dynamic and reflective of the different markets forces at play. Other areas of focus should be on exports, imports, trade flows, stocks, local prices/differentials and consumption.
- Regular reporting for internal and external use, such as; weekly reports, meeting summaries and monthly updates. This information will be used to keep internal stakeholders up to date with changes affecting the market.
- Host and minute regular internal coffee trade meetings, ensuring agenda is always relevant to driving forces within the market.
- Prepare presentations for customers across the different profit centres aimed at supporting the trade and sales teams, whilst collecting information that can be used to understand more what is going on in the industry & market.
- Engage fully with an internal network of agronomists and local origin specialists to help inform your centralised research. Be fully engaged with the various origins to ensure that research is being conducted efficiently and accurately.
- Analyse the markets and keep traders updated with important insights. This might be used to support the physical or paper side. You should always look for innovative ways to track changes and make predictions about what could happen in the future.
- Keep up to date with the other commodities, such as cocoa and cotton and identify innovative methods & techniques that could be used to strengthen coffee analysis.
Coffee Research Analyst - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:
- Commercial experience within a commodity research environment.
- Specific experience in coffee and/or soft commodities is critical to this role.
- A relevant degree (or equivalent) in an agriculture, economics, mathematics (or similar scientific subject with quantitative background).
- Knowledge and experience of agricultural commodities is essential, ideally gained through work experience.
- A customer-focussed approach to ensure reporting is tailored for the end-user requirements.
- Ability to pragmatically evaluate markets and data (absorbing & refining information) in order to develop and clearly communicate a dynamic view of the coffee market.
- A good understanding of physical and futures markets.
- Ability to communicate on a multi-national basis with trekking teams, agronomists, origination centres and to stakeholders within the business, particularly within trading and merchandising.
- Ability and willingness to travel for periods of time.
- Excellent Excel Skills is essential.
- Experience with other data analysis tools (e.g. Python, R) would be advantageous.
- Excellent organisation and communication skills.
- Language skills in Spanish and/or Portuguese would be useful.
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