Commercial Product Specialist - Energy Commodities and Freight Analytics

Vortexa; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing energy analytics firm in Singapore is looking for a Product Specialist to join their commercial team. This role requires someone with market trading experience to work closely with clients and support business development while shaping the product roadmap based on market insights. The ideal candidate has good communication skills and a results-oriented mindset. Benefits include stock options, private health insurance, and flexible working policies.

Benefits

Stock options

Private health insurance

Flexible working policy

Collaborative work culture

Qualifications

• Experience in a market trading or customer facing role related to oil & gas or shipping.
• Ability to articulate value-driven solutions to clients.
• Customer-success orientation with deadline management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct product demos and articulate Vortexa’s value proposition.
• Support business development and build customer networks.
• Contribute to product roadmap based on client feedback.

Skills

Market trading knowledge

Software visualisation tools

Client communication

Results orientation

Job description

About Us

Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view of global energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and helping society as a whole.

The Role

Vortexa is looking for a Product Specialist in our fast growing commercial team. This exciting opportunity will allow you to combine product and energy market knowledge to work closely with our clients, partners and prospects, helping them maximise the value from using Vortexa’s information & analytics platform. You will also play a key role in shaping the evolution of our product roadmap based on your direct insights and experience from all your market interactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Deep understanding of Vortexa’s information & analytics platform as well as an overall understanding of our methodologies, data & modelling processes and flows
• Conduct impressive product demos to clients, partners and prospects and confidently articulate Vortexa’s value proposition.
• Drive engagement of users during demonstrations, product trials and on-boarding processes
• Support the expansion and growth of the region, through sales, marketing and recruitment
• Work closely with the Commercial team in ongoing business development activities, including input to the commercial strategy and helping to build customer networks
• Support upselling by encouraging client usage of the Vortexa SDK/API & other additional services and facilitating integration of Vortexa solutions within client workflows
• Develop strong relationships with clients, serving as a key advocate of clients inside Vortexa
• Contribute to product roadmap in prioritisation and improvement initiatives and articulate client feedback to Vortexa product development teams and lead internal and external training as well as development of in-house market knowledge
• Help raise the brand awareness and profile of Vortexa in the region
• Build and maintain industry networks in the region
• Attend and present at industry and in-house events

Our ideal candidate will have

• Experience in a market trading, broking, operation or customer facing role related to the oil & gas or shipping markets
• Experience with software visualisation tools/web applications.
• Broad understanding of market fundamentals, across seaborne oil and gas routes and trading strategies.
• Customer-success orientation: Presenting to and fulfilling requests from demanding clients on deadline.
• Highly proficient in face to face communications and the ability to articulate value driven solutions.
• Experience producing written materials and presentations.
• Results-orientated focus, with the ability to efficiently prioritise multiple objectives.
• Ability to be conversant in Mandarin would be desirable.
• An inquisitive mind towards the use of data and technology in shipping and trading.

Benefits

• Stock-options in a fast-growing, high-potential business
• An open, collaborative, and supportive working culture built on merit, which celebrates creative thinking and “getting things done.”
• The opportunity to work with AI-driven technology in a scale-up environment with commodity trading experts
• Private Health Insurance offered via AXA
• A flexible working policy- accommodating both remote & home working, with regular staff events
• Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good’ and feel better