# Market Analyst

**Company**: Argus Media
**Location**: Shanghai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Consulting

**Apply**: https://careers.argusmedia.com/jobs/8520673-market-analyst-chemicals?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

You will write engaging market intelligence and analyse timely, accurate, objective, and meaningful prices for clients. This involves maintaining a strong network of industry contacts to source original content. As a Market Analyst, you will be personable, quickly becoming a subject matter expert, and lead coverage within a designated product portfolio. You will collaborate with global colleagues, travel to industry events, present at conferences, and lead webinars.

**Responsibilities:**

- Monitor and assess fast-moving markets to produce daily price assessments, market commentaries, analyses, and reports.

- Establish strong relationships with industry leaders to gain an in-depth understanding of the market.

- Generate pitch stories, contribute to publications, and create unique content such as blog posts, white papers, and webinars.

- Collaborate with colleagues to enhance and drive coverage.

- Attend meetings, conferences, and industry events to build contacts and represent Argus.

- Develop industry expertise and writing skills to provide high-quality market insights and analysis.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in journalism, English, communications, economics, business, or a relevant field.

- Prior experience in the financial, energy, commodities, or journalism sector is beneficial but not essential.

- Ability to develop, verify, and write industry-relevant content to deadline.

- Interest in commodities, energy markets, global business, politics, and economics.

- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

- Strong experience with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build contacts with industry executives.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary and company bonus structure.

- Hybrid working model with work-from-home options.

- Career development and progression opportunities.

- 15 days annual leave.

- Ongoing training, mentoring, and development opportunities.

- Employee Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme.

**Travel:**

- 5-10% of domestic/Asia travel expected to cover conferences and events.

**Hours:**

- Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with occasional earlier or later hours or weekend work.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Excel
- English communication

### Nice to have
- journalism
- communications
- economics
- business
- energy markets
- commodities

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Source: [Apply at careers.argusmedia.com](https://careers.argusmedia.com/jobs/8520673-market-analyst-chemicals?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)