Senior Offshore Market Analyst: Forecasting & Valuations

Marsoft Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsoft Inc. is seeking a Senior Market Analyst (Offshore) to expand our market coverage into offshore shipping.

You will build supply and demand models, scenario forecasts, and vessel valuations used by banks, lessors, investors, and shipowners for lending and investment decisions. Responsibilities include end-to-end offshore forecasting, presenting to clients, maintaining market datasets, and ensuring model consistency across vessel ages.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in offshore or shipping market analysis.
• Strong quantitative skills and experience building forecasting or econometric models.
• Clear writing for professional audiences.
• Willingness to defend assumptions, and to change views when the data says so.
• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Maritime Studies, Engineering, or related quantitative field; a Master's degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build supply, demand, and earnings models for the offshore market, from fleet and orderbook through tonne-mile demand and fleet utilization.
• Produce quarterly Base, High, and Low Case forecasts for freight rates, time charter rates, newbuilding prices, and secondhand values by vessel age.
• Translate geopolitical and trade disruptions, such as chokepoint closures, rerouting, sanctions, and tariffs, into explicit, defensible scenario assumptions.
• Reconcile model estimates with actual fixtures and sale-and-purchase transactions, and explain revisions to clients.
• Write quarterly market reports and monthly eBriefs, and build internal chartpacks that compare each release with the last.
• Test each release in our valuation software before clients see it, checking that values are consistent across vessel ages and specifications.
• Answer client questions from banks, lessors, and owners on valuations, operating costs, and forecast accuracy.
• Maintain market datasets from broker reports, freight indices, and vessel-tracking sources, and help automate their collection.
• Own the offshore forecast end to end, present it to clients, and shape the offshore product as coverage grows.

Skills

Forecasting models

Quantitative analysis

Clear writing

Defend assumptions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics/Finance/Maritime Studies/Engineering

Master's degree is a plus

Job description

Marsoft Inc. is seeking a Senior Market Analyst (Offshore) to expand our market coverage into offshore shipping.

You will build supply and demand models, scenario forecasts, and vessel valuations used by banks, lessors, investors, and shipowners for lending and investment decisions. Responsibilities include end-to-end offshore forecasting, presenting to clients, maintaining market datasets, and ensuring model consistency across vessel ages.