Senior Research Analyst - Product Engineering & Renewability - Global Management Firm

Key responsibilities - Research and maintain commodity pricing & macroeconomics indicators around the world

- Develop & maintain a platform to share Economics internally & externally

- Build algorithms for estimating/forecasting commodity pricing accurately

- Build and develop knowledge in one or more "spikes" (e.g. industry, function, or geography)

- Identify and determine the most appropriate, cost-effective and timely research solutions to meet needs

- Gather information using a broad spectrum of sources

- Synthesize the findings into targeted, firm-formatted end products with some interpretation of the "so what" of the research; end products including single exhibits, written summaries, basic fact packs, and spread-sheets, utilizing standard financial concepts, ratios and calculations

- Build expertise by developing basic fact packs, summaries, and be assigned portions of larger documents in your area of focus

- Prepare & circulate newsletters on global economic movements & impact to businesses

- Work with project team members to understand, refine and prioritize their research needs

- Solid understanding of a specific content area and its salient issues form the basis for advancement at more senior levels of the Global Research career path

- Organizational environment Department: Global Research, Global Service Center

Reports to: Research Manager

Level-defining Research skills - Request scoping/problem solving: Good investigative problem solving skills - ability to help refine and focus project team requests and objectives

- Source knowledge: Solid source knowledge in area of expertise, if relevant; increasing source quality recognition and use of possible proxies

- Industry/functional knowledge: An understanding of the landscape of area of expertise(market shares, major players etc.); Economic knowledge a must

- Research output: Excellent skills in synthesizing data into Firm- accepted formats to produce structured exhibits and spreadsheets and the extraction of the "so-what's" from research

- Numerical/Financial skills: Good understanding of standard financial calculations, ratios and concepts and general business concepts and terminology

- Relationship building/networking: Proactive utilization of network within the IRC community and beginning of identification of experts in the wider firm community

Core skills - Communications: Good written and oral communication skills, including appropriate style, confidence, and structure; effective listening skills

- Service orientation: Excellent customer focus, including proactive responses to project-team needs with thoughtfulness, commitment, and diligence

- Team Skills: Collaboration, cooperation, and respect

- Creativity: Pursuit of out-of-the-box solutions whenever possible

- Motivation: The drive to learn continuously and the application of those learnings for the benefit of the firm and our clients

- Time management skills: Reliability, dependability, and an ability to manage workload effectively

- IT Proficiency: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

- Ethics: Compliance with company policies at all times