Fertilizer Analyst

About the Position

This role will contribute to the delivery, improvement, and expansion of our nitrogen fertilizer services across North America. This is a great opportunity for an early career analyst with a background in economics, statistics, chemical engineering, agriculture, or energy, looking to build their career in commodity analysis and who wants to play a prominent role in the development of the next generation of Argus’s Analytics services across North America.

Responsibilities

• Lead components of the Nitrogen Team’s client deliverables, under guidance from managers, ranging from written reports, commodity forecasts to wider thought leadership pieces and conference presentations
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the wider Fertilizer Team’s core models used in the forecasting of supply, demand, capacity, imports and exports, price, production costs, and margin analysis
• Work with our global team of analysts to ensure the analysis produced accurately reflects the highly complex and globally connected nitrogen value chains
• Drive the continuous improvement of our subscription reports in terms of their analytical rigor, breadth, and depth of detail and quality of delivery
• Engage with the wider Analytics business to ensure the major trends in adjacent commodity markets are appropriately reflected in the nitrogen products
• Support the development and commercialization of new data-driven products

Requirements

• Graduate / Master’s degree from a top-tier university
• Highly numerate with experience analyzing comprehensive datasets quickly and meticulously with excellent attention to detail and accuracy focus
• Intellectually curious and able to demonstrate structured problem-solving and analytical skills
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills
• Strong IT skills including advanced Excel and PowerPoint; awareness of other statistical and programming languages such as R is an advantage
• Ability to handle multiple tasks to deadline and to meet targets
• Flexible in approach, highly motivated, and willing to contribute to the growth of Argus’ Analytics Services

We Offer

• Competitive salary and company bonus scheme
• Group medical, dental, and vision plans
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability and life insurance plan
• Group 401(k) safe harbor retirement plan with a 6% company match
• 20 vacation days your first year, up to a maximum of 30 days
• Subsidized gym membership
• Extensive internal and external training

About the Company

Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools, and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets.

Headquartered in London with 1,500 staff, Argus is an independent media organization with 32 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs. Companies, trading firms, and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyze situations, manage risk, facilitate trading, and for long-term planning.

Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.

For more details about the company and to apply, please visit our website: www.argusmedia.com/en/careers/open-positions

Argus Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.