Why explore

An opportunity to work on a variety of complex projects and influence key decisions globally
Work in a collaborative and fast paced environment
Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Analyst to join our Market Analysis team. The role is a six-months contract opportunity with a strong project focus. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver tangible improvements to our freight market analytical capability, including enhanced supply-demand modelling, forecasting tools and recurring market intelligence reports, while providing high-quality market analysis to support commercial decision making.

The Market Analysis team sits within Rio Tinto's Commercial Function and is responsible for generating short-to-medium-term market insights (up to 5 years). This incorporates macroeconomic analysis, supply and demand forecasts (including downstream sectors), trading support, and price forecasting. The team leverages on these insights and analysis to support Commercial decision-making and generate value across Sales & Marketing, Procurement and Marine & Logistics.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Procurement, Marine & Logistics Market Analysis, you will:

Lead the development and enhancement of dry bulk freight supply and demand models, linking commodity trade flows, cargo volumes, tonne-mile demand, vessel supply and fleet productivity to freight market balances and rate outlooks.
Develop a forward-looking freight demand framework, translating changes in key dry bulk commodity flows into vessel demand by commodity and vessel class.
Build and enhance vessel supply and effective-capacity models, incorporating fleet growth, newbuilding deliveries, scrapping, vessel speeds, congestion, ballast patterns and other utilisation factors.
Develop short- and medium-term freight market outlooks, identifying emerging market imbalances, inflection points and risks across key dry bulk segments.
Produce regular freight market reports and executive briefings, distilling market developments, freight rate movements and underlying supply/demand drivers into concise, commercially relevant insights.
Partner with commercial, shipping, commodity and analytical teams to translate market analysis into actionable commercial insights and support freight strategy and decision making.
Establish clear model documentation, methodologies and handover processes, ensuring analytical tools and frameworks are robust, transparent and suitable beyond the fixed-term assignment.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

University degree in either a technical or commercial discipline.
5+ years of relevant experience in dry bulk shipping, freight, commodity research, market intelligence or related analytics.
Demonstrated experience building or maintaining fundamental market models and forecasts, and translating analytical output into forward-looking market views.
High attention to detail and a proactive, curious approach to problem solving.
Ability to synthesise quantitative and qualitative information into clear insights.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills with experience in modelling and data analysis.
Willingness to learn new tools and platforms to improve process flows.
Demonstrated experience using AI tools and coding to automate data collection, processing and reporting workflows.
Good team-player who can work on independent projects and collaboratively as part of a global team.

Senior Analyst - Market Analysis (6-Months Contract)