Senior Research Analyst II

Dow Jones; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Paid Time Off

Retirement Plans

Insurance Plans

Wellness Resources

Education Benefits

Family Care Benefits

Commuter Transit Program

Employee Referral Program

Job summary

Dow Jones Energy in Houston seeks a senior data analytics professional to identify sales leads, cover chemical markets, and maintain price and supply/demand models for industry reports. The role includes presenting to clients, updating forecasts, and supporting long-form analytical projects.

The ideal candidate has a chemical engineering/chemistry background with at least five years of experience, strong MS Office skills, and demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent; chemical engineering/chemistry/technical preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Experience in a Petrochemicals company is a significant advantage.

Responsibilities

• Identify sales leads via direct and indirect client contact.
• Cover chemical markets and provide market updates for weekly and monthly reports.
• Maintain, update, and balance long forms up through entire product chains, short forms and quarterlies as needed.
• Perform presentations for clients both in our offices and onsite.
• Maintain knowledge of databases and tools for responsible products (Supply/Demand, Global Pricing System, Capacity Data Base and Trade Grids).
• Actively pursue analytical approaches that provide value to clients.
• Update charts and price files; ensure timely publishing of reports.

Skills

Public speaking

Customer facing

Problem solving

Teamwork

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Technical Preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Data analytics tools

Job description

About The Team

Dow Jones Energy provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. Dow Jones Energy enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. Dow Jones Energy listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products. Navigating world fuel markets is complex – Dow Jones Energy makes it simpler.

Houston, TX - OPIS

Full time

Responsibilities

• Identify sales leads via direct and indirect client contact.
• Cover chemical markets and provide market updates for weekly and monthly reports
• Supply/Demand - Maintain, update, and balance long forms up through entire product chains, short forms and quarterlies as needed
• Perform presentations for clients both in our offices and onsite.
• Maintain a detailed working knowledge of the basic databases and tools for responsible products, (Supply/Demand, Global Pricing System, Capacity Data Base and Trade Grids).
• Econometrics - Maintenance and modifications for product specific models
• Assets - Maintain product capacities based on market intelligence
• Actively pursue and develop unique analytical approaches that provide value to clients and/or potential clients.
• Maintain and develop knowledge of state-of-the-art industry processes for specific product chain.
• Involvement with long-term projects related to responsible products such as cost studies, etc

You Will

• Write and proof text for weekly and monthly reports.
• Ensure charts and price files are up to date for routine reports
• Update Price/Supply/Demand/Forecast sections for reports
• Update / create meaningful charts for reports
• Answer client questions about data and services.
• Discover prices through industry contacts; maintain price forecasts both short and long term
• Update Supply Demand Quarterly balances and Trade reports
• Contribute to Long Forms, Supply Demand, Trade and Quarterly balances to ensure they are completed, accurate and up to date
• Keep consultants informed of latest news or press releases related to their products
• Help with client requests as needed
• Assist in enabling accurate and timely publishing of all reports by maintaining accuracy of price and chart files and troubleshooting any publishing issues.

Other Tasks

• Annual World Analysis
• Update trade grids
• Match quarterly balances into the long forms before balancing begins
• Help during the balancing process
• Write sections for World Analysis as required
• Update the Technology Economic snapshots
• Create forecast trade grids for the book.
• Maintain capacity and supply and demand data sources
• Provide necessary support to consultants for Aromatics World Analyses as required
• Answer or direct client questions relating to Aromatics World Analyses as required
• Maintain trade charts
• Maintain files and trade data for Aromatics products trade charts
• Maintain logistics arbitrage analysis for specific Aromatics
• Maintain logistic costs database
• Consultant Support
• Direct client website questions to relevant consultant
• Proactively prepare and maintain economic and other models for use by consultants
• Assist consultants in resolving model errors as required
• Support consultants in development of client slides if required

You Have

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience - Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Technical Preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of experience
• Previous work experience in a Petrochemicals company is a significant advantage
• Previous experience using analytical skills, ideally as a Business Analyst
• Experience in customer facing roles an advantage
• Chemical industry knowledge combined with a good level of product expertise.
• Expertise with Microsoft Office products
• A conceptual understanding of how economics and politics influence regional and global markets.
• Proficient public speaker.
• Ability to think through questions and/or problems and independently provide solutions.
• Proactive and self-motivated, focused on delivery of quality results
• Good team worker

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
• Education Benefits
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Commuter Transit Program
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. EEO/Disabled/Vets

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Business Area: Dow Jones - Energy

Job Category: Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: $90,000 - $110,000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest newsgathering operations globally.

It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and Dow Jones Newswires. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).