Manager, Research & Price Reporting, Shipping & Freight

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TheRole: Manager, Research & Price Reporting, Shipping & Freight

The Team: S&P Global Commodity Insights/Platts has a team of shipping researchers based out of Gurgaon. The team is tasked with leading an exciting global project on freight markets, including port fee data collection for hundreds of ports worldwide and calculating tanker Base rates.

The team works closely with the Shipping and Freight Editorial team, which tracks the very exciting and fast-moving shipping market. This team is responsible for producing the freight assessments that underpin commodity pricing markets and are used in physical and derivative freight trading.

Whats in it for you:

• Potential to gain expertise in the seaborne transportation sector.
• Opportunity to build valuable contacts with shipping market leaders and experts.
• An entry point into S&P Global, one of Indias Best Companies to Work for in 2021.
• Lead a team of researchers executing end-to-end projects.
• Work closely with Platts leaders in Gurgaon, our fastest growing Pricing and Content Hub, and Singapore, our key Pricing hub in Asia as well as Houston, our prominent Pricing hub in the Americas.

Responsibilities:

• Bringing leadership, ideas, efficiency, and excellence in conceiving projects
• Leading and executing end-to-end projects.
• Collecting tanker freight market information, collecting port fee data for hundreds of ports.
• Developing, expanding, and maintaining sources.
• Delivering quality and accurate research reports.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience in conducting research.
• Excellent communication skills, and a clear, concise writing style.
• The ability to communicate with a wide range of groups and personalities.
• Able to work independently and collaboratively with global S&P Global teams across different time zones whilst simultaneously carrying out independent tasks and activities.
• Strong numeracy skills, including ability to conceptualize proportional relationships.
• Possess excellent basic/advanced math functions in Microsoft Excel.
• Highly skilled in Powerpoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of commodity markets and its dynamics
• Shipping/freight market experience, or market reporting experience, a bonus
• A basic understanding of economics principles is also preferred.