Market Specialist

About the Business

At ICIS, our mission is to optimize the worlds resources. We help companies make strategic, sustainable decisions by bringing transparency to markets across the world. We create a comprehensive view of commodities markets, providing companies with the data and intelligence to successfully navigate across global value chains every day. Our customers benefit from instant access to price assessments, reports and forecasts, a dedicated news channel and supply and demand data. You can learn more about ICIS at the link below. https://www.icis.com/explore

About our Team

We are looking for a Market Specialist to join our editorial team in Asia leading on content coverage in the sustainability space and engaging closely with the industry.

About the Role

You will drive content creation including market research and coming up with price indexation for pyrolysis oil and bio-naphtha. You will work closely with our editors and analysts and use data effectively to deliver insightful and actionable intelligence for our customers. You will raise the profile of ICIS as well as showcase our market expertise in the sustainability space through active client engagement, clearly distinguishing yourself as an industry expert in these interactions. You will be based in South Korea/Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Carry out research on pyrolysis oil and bio-naphtha with the aim of producing insightful news, market analysis, price assessments and working with cross-functional teams to bring new products to market
• Track new projects and investments, supply-demand dynamics and changes in trade flows and update relevant databases
• Report on these emerging markets in an engaging and timely manner through using relevant data visualizations that add value to your content and our subscribers
• Contribute to establishing data analytics for pyrolysis oil and bio-naphtha
• Travel to attend and speak regularly at industry events, conferences and at client sessions
• Identify and share the latest key market developments and how that impacts our content and commercial opportunities with content colleagues and the wider business including the strategy, sales and marketing teams

Requirements

• 5-10 years of industry or reporting experience in the chemicals/energy industry with a proven track record of being an established expert in your field.
• Established network of contacts in the chemical/energy/sustainability space.
• Academic qualifications in chemical engineering, business/finance, economics, journalism or similar
• Be able to write and communicate with clarity
• Have knowledge or interest in market economics
• Have a high level of numerical accuracy and excellent analytical skills
• Have excellent inter-personal and communication skills
• Experience of working with Excel/Excel-based business tools
• Be a passionate, curious, high-performing, accountable team player
• Effectively bilingual in English and Korea (verbal and written)

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