Strategic Financial Market Researcher

The organisation

Our client is a global player in the chemical industry. With a market leadership in Latin America and a presence in the US, Western Europe and Asia, they have a global scope. For their office in Rotterdam they are urgently recruiting a Strategic Financial Market Researcher. 

The position 

In your role as Strategic Financial Market Researcher you will be responsible for the competitive intelligence global Market Research, the feedstock agenda, data analytics and competitive intelligence. You are a global competitive intelligence expert on competitive industry and/or other research, including expertise on appropriate data sources, consulting companies, methodologies (qualitative and quantitative, secondary and primary), different regional behaviors and impacts and you are skilled at insights identification and provoking entrepreneurs to specific discussions forums around key issues and stress scenarios. 

You will perform researches on request and present market information the different business units in order to support strategic decisions. You have strong stakeholder management skills as you will deal with the decision makers per business unit. Maintain an in-depth knowledge of feedstock market and trends through reading reports and news, market research, consulting companies relationship, data manipulation and financial modeling and analysis. You will be a focal point of the relationship with key global external consulting companies as a key part of the information flows and on ad hoc requests, permanently testing and deeply understanding assumptions and rationales behind their analysis, trying to influence them if we don’t agree on the market behavior. 

You will provide feedstock prices references guidelines together with a unified supply/demand view to support rolling forecast and planning cycle process, being responsible to guarantee the alignment across Small Firms. Ideally you have leadership experience within an international and multicultural matrix firm. 
 
Candidate profile

Besides experience with Market Research, Financial Analysis and feedstock, you have leadership experience and you have work experience within the petrochemical industry, oil & gas or energy industry. You have strong communication and presentation skills in English and any other European language would be a plus. You have strong interpersonal skills and you are a good negotiator. 

You have a global mindset and you have great intercompany skills. You have experience writing market intelligence reports. Your personality is analytical, assertive and curious. The ideal candidate has knowledge of SAP R/3 or another SAP version. You have a very good MS-Office knowledge, especially Excel. You are willing to travel frequently. 

The offer

A highly competitive salary of €100.000 – €125.000 annual salary, a pension plan with 4% employee contribution, life insurance and an annual bonus based on the performance of the company. 
 
Interested?

If you're interested in this role, please use the link below to upload your resume. For any further questions you can contact Tom Schraverus +316-46 89 16 54.