Job Summary

This Associate Director - Commodities Analyst role offers a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to our energy and natural gas research, driving insightful analysis that directly supports decision-making for both internal teams and external clients.

The position may be located in the UK or Singapore, offering a dynamic and international working environment. Please ensure that you select your preferred role location accurately during your application.

As a specialist in commodities research with a focus on natural gas, energy, and related markets, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the Bank's reputation as a trusted thought leader. Leveraging cross-regional insights, you will deliver in-depth, forward-looking market analysis that informs stakeholder strategies and addresses complex market challenges in a rapidly evolving global commodities landscape.

This role demands a proactive communicator and analytical thinker capable of distilling complex market developments into clear, actionable intelligence tailored for diverse audiences, ranging from senior management to valued clients and media outlets. You will collaborate extensively across internal functions, including trading, sales, structuring, and regional economic research teams, to ensure synchronized market perspectives and cohesive client advisory services.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Proactively identifying emerging trends and significant movements within the energy and broader commodities markets, specifically natural gas, and escalating critical insights to senior management to inform strategic decisions.
• Serving as a trusted advisor by providing nuanced market intelligence and impact analyses, supporting the Bank's stakeholders in navigating an increasingly complex commodities environment.
• Building and maintaining strong, collaborative working relationships with internal teams such as commodities trading, sales, and structuring to facilitate two-way information flow and ensure the effective utilization of research outputs.
• Developing and delivering world-class research and advisory services that enhance client loyalty and deepen engagement, positioning the Bank at the forefront of commodities expertise.
• Communicating complex market dynamics, forecasts, and strategic implications with clarity and precision to varied audiences, ensuring accessibility while maintaining analytical rigor.
• Championing and disseminating the Bank's house views on commodities through multiple channels, including client presentations, internal briefings, and media engagement, thereby bolstering the Bank’s thought leadership in the sector.
• Collaborating closely with regional economists to integrate macroeconomic perspectives into commodities research, contributing to comprehensive, multidimensional publications.
• Contributing actively to the commodities research team’s objectives and development, promoting a culture of excellence, innovation, and inclusivity within the group.
• Fostering positive and open partnerships with key stakeholders, promoting a cooperative environment that supports effective knowledge sharing and stakeholder engagement across various organizational levels.

Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a comprehensive skill set including:

• Analytical Thinking: Ability to synthesize complex data and market signals to produce insightful, actionable research.
• Communicating Complex Concepts: Skilled in translating technical and economic jargon into clear, compelling narratives for broad audiences.
• Effective Presentations: Experience in delivering confident and engaging presentations, whether to internal teams, clients, or at industry forums.
• Global Economic Analysis (GEA): Profound understanding of global economic trends and their impact on commodities markets.
• Oral and Written Communications: Exceptional communication skills, capable of crafting high-quality reports, briefs, and commentary that reflect deep market comprehension.
• Collaboration and Relationship Management: Ability to build and sustain influential networks both within the bank and externally with clients and industry experts.

Qualifications

Qualifications and experience essential for success in this position include:

• A degree in economics or a closely related discipline providing a strong theoretical foundation in market analysis and economic principles.
• Substantial experience in Investment Research, particularly within the commodities area, with a strong preference for expertise in natural gas and energy sectors.
• A demonstrated track record of analytic rigor and market insight gained through roles in research, sales, or product teams within commodities markets.
• Proficiency in advanced product knowledge and financial analysis methods relevant to commodities trading and investment.
• A deep understanding of client relationship management, with experience engaging sophisticated institutional clients and internal business partners.
• Intermediate leadership capabilities, including experience coordinating teams or projects and mentorship skills.
• Outstanding written communication skills and the ability to articulate complex market dynamics to diverse audiences in a clear and persuasive manner.

We welcome applicants across a range of seniority levels with the requisite expertise, including those with broad commodity market experience beyond natural gas and energy.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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