Overview

Position Title: Commodity Research Principal

Company: Anglo American

Location: London, UK

Job Description:

With access to the Anglo American’s C-Suite, you’ll be central to expanding our knowledge on and seeking opportunities in the sector. Ideally, you’ll already be a commodity expert with experience in this sector and have outstanding extractive industry knowledge in bulks, metals and/or fertilisers

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and continuously improve our understanding of various commodities
  • Collect and analyse data in order to understand broader relationships and/or specific issues, providing insight on how they may work and how they might develop.
  • Identify and provide insights on relevant new trends related to commodity supply, demand and price formation.
  • Identify issues requiring detailed investigation and run related investigative projects.
  • Develop and maintain a working understanding of macro-economic, socio-economic, industry, technology, competitive and regulatory trends.
  • Prepare and, where required, present insights succinctly and effectively. The audience includes the executive, business units and employees.

Requirements:

  • Degree Outstanding academic credentials at undergraduate level in a relevant degree discipline (Typically, Agronomy, Science, Engineering or Economics) & Masters, or PhD and/or MBA would be an advantage
  • Ability to frame a problem and break issues and analysis down into manageable parts; demonstrated analytic capacity;
  • Synthesise analysis into clear recommendations for communication to executive leadership
  • Synthesise diverse range of sources and market data into long term forecasts related to commodities; capacity for fundamental analysis to help inform the pricing mechanisms, and to also feed into the broader framing of the strategic issues and solutions.
  • Use commodity analysis tools and frameworks (supply & demand forecasts, cost curves, pricing).
  • Good understanding of mining and/or extractive industries
  • Some understanding of macro and micro economic principles
  • Excellent understanding of business drivers that generate value and impact decision making and basic financial metrics & budgeting tools
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes (Excel and PowerPoint).

About Anglo American

Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining operations and undeveloped resources provides the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner, more electrified world and that meet the fast growing consumer-driven demands of the world’s developed and maturing economies. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world – safely, responsibly and sustainably.