People First Supply Chain
Coffee Research Analyst

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Coffee Research Analyst
Ref: 23444 Job Title: Coffee Research Analyst Your New Salary: £Competitive Hybrid: 3 days in office (Central London), 2 at home Status: Permanent Role Start: ASAP, notice considered Working hours: 9am - 5.30pm, Monday - Friday (37.5 hour week) Who You'll be Working For: International commodity merchant.
What You'll be Doing:
- Coordinate external sources of market relevant data & information and combine with data flowing to the research desk from global origination teams & merchandising centres. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing and fully utilising the advantageous data held across the wider group.
- As Coffee is a leading commodity within the company, the individual will deal with a diverse range of stakeholders & customers across the business, for which research is a key part of their business.
- Manage a large and complex database of coffee statistics ensuring that production data is up to date and accurate. With focus on exports, imports, trade flows, stocks, local prices/differentials and consumption trends.
- Regular reporting for internal and external use, such as; weekly reports, meeting summaries and monthly updates.
- Host and minute regular internal coffee trade meetings, ensuring agenda is always relevant to driving forces within the market.
- Prepare presentations for customers across the different profit centres aimed at supporting the trade and sales teams.
- Engage fully with an internal network of agronomists and local origin specialists to help inform your centralised research.
- Analyse the markets and keep traders updated with important insights.
- Keep up to date with the other commodities, such as cocoa and cotton and identify innovative methods & techniques that could be used to strengthen coffee analysis.
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The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:
- Experience within a commodity environment or similar.
- The successful candidate will have specific experience in coffee and/or other soft commodities (sugar, cocoa etc.), with the ability to pragmatically evaluate markets and data and clearly communicate an innovative view of the coffee market.
- Customer-focused approach to ensure reporting is tailored for end users, and a good understanding of physical and futures markets.
- Strong communication and organisation skills are a must in the role.
- Confidence to present to senior level staff.
- A high level of Excel is essential.


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