AddressThe Role: Agricultural Economist, Team Lead (Costs and Margins), Food & Agricultural Commodities
The Team: We are currently looking for an Agricultural Economist to join S&P Global Commodity Insights’ dynamic Food and Agricultural Commodities team to lead the development of our analysis of Global Agricultural Costs and Margins. The F&AC team produces world class analysis, forecasts and data across comprehensive global commodity markets.
The role: The Agricultural Economist team lead (Costs and Margins) will lead the team that produces Food and Agricultural Commodities’ analysis of global Costs and Margins. They will be monitoring market conditions and provide analysis of supply, demand, and price expectations to a wide field of clients across the agriculture supply chain.to produce and publish quality analysis and assist senior staff in their own analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Take overall responsibility for developing and maintaining models to forecast Costs and Margins across global agriculture, including indepth data analysis of inputs across labour rates, machinery, chemicals, fertilizers, seeds and others.
- Development of alternative scenarios using the model, for corporate and financial sector customers.
- The Agricultural Economist will convey the results of their research through a variety of outlets including internal meetings, written reports for clients, the S&P Global Commodity Insights Connect platform, formal presentations, and informal interactions with clients via conference calls and emails. The position also involves working cooperatively with other areas of the Agribusiness Intelligence business, contributing expertise to consulting projects and other activities as needed.
- They will take part in interaction with global customers across a range of personas, including crop science companies, fertilizer producers, agricultural producers etc.
- Managing large-scale data collection to ensure efficiency, accuracy and relevance
What We’re Looking For:
- A BS Economics or Agricultural Economics - an advanced degree is beneficial, with prior experience in monitoring and forecasting agriculture commodities.
- A high degree of analytic ability with an ability to communicate the results in reports.
- Knowledge of Eviews, R or other econometric/statistic software.
- Experience conducting economic or commodity market research.
- 5 years of experience as a minimum.
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills, and the ability to develop trust and respect from both colleagues as well as clients.
- Superior written and oral communications.
- Outstanding written communication skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent MS Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint and Power BI skills.
Your Soft Skills:
- A passion for learning and intellectual curiosity.
- An interest in commodity markets and how they operate.
- You will have high energy, are willing and able to deal with client requests as they arise, and to travel as the job requires.
- Self-motivated and ambitious, with good problem-solving skills.
- The ability to work independently and in an organized manner.
