What will you be doing?
Did you know that Argus Crude Oil pricing has been entrenched in the global markets since 1979?
Our crude benchmarks are widely adopted in commercial contracts, internal transfer pricing, tax formulae and economic modelling used by governments, traders, refiners, exchanges, and financial institutions.
We are looking for a highly driven, enthusiastic, and hard-working individual to join our Asia team in Singapore. This is an excellent opportunity for an analytical, inquisitive, numerate, and literate market analyst, consultant, broker to transfer their skills and knowledge to a price reporting, news, and analysis business.
In this role, you will work in a fast-paced team and cover China's domestic crude oil markets. In addition, you will be writing engaging market intelligence and analysing spot prices that are timely, accurate, objective, and meaningful for our clients. This includes maintaining a strong network of contacts within the industries to source original, relevant and exclusive content. You will be personable and be able to quickly become a subject matter expert and lead coverage within the designated product portfolio. You will enjoy collaborative work with colleagues from various backgrounds, many located in Argus’ other offices around the globe. In addition, there are opportunities to travel, attend industry events, present at industry conferences and lead webinar sessions.
· Monitor and assess fast-moving markets to produce daily price assessments, market commentaries, analysis, and reports.
· Establish strong relationships with key members of the industry and business leaders through meetings and daily communications to gain an in-depth understanding of your market.
· Proactively generate news leads and pitch stories, contribute copy to the relevant publication and contribute to unique content (blog posts, white papers, webinars, podcasts, etc.).
· Collaborate with colleagues on the desk and other teams to enhance and drive coverage.
· Attend meetings, conferences, and industry events to build contacts and represent Argus.
· Build your industry expertise and writing skills to provide readers with first-class market insights and analysis.
To learn more about the report this role covers, please click on the below link:
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/crude-oil/argus-crude
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/crude-oil
What we’re looking for in you
· A graduate with strong degree preferably in Economics, Journalism, Communications, Business, or relevant field.
· Prior experience in the financial, energy, commodities or journalism sector is useful but not essential.
· Excellent writing, grammar, and numeracy skills
· Proficiency working with Excel and interest in further developing data skills.
· Ability to work effectively with management and meet targets in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.
· Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build contacts with industry executives
· Believe in the following Argus values: Passion, Integrity, Excellence and Results
What’s in it for you:
· Work within a highly motivated team at an industry-leading and rapidly growing global company.
· Competitive salary and company bonus scheme
· A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork
· Excellent location at Raffles Place in central Singapore – close to public transport and amenities
· Hybrid working model - Work from Home options available
· Comprehensive benefits package including medical (GP and specialist), dental and hospitalisation.
· 20 vacation days your first year, up to a maximum of 25 days
· Extensive internal and external training
· Employee Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme
Travel
· Cover conferences and events (5-10% of overseas travel is expected).
Hours
· Monday through Friday, 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.
· Earlier or later hours, or weekend hours, may be expected on occasion.
About Argus
Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets. Headquartered in London with over 1,400 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.
Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy. Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.
Argus Media is committed to ensuring career and personal growth for all its staff and provides extensive training and career development opportunities, as well as participation in employee-led initiatives, including a women’s network. Our core values are Excellence, Integrity, Partnership and Inclusivity.
We're not engaging any recruitment agencies for this role, so if you're interested. Please apply directly.
We will conduct interviews continuously and reserve the right to take down the advertisement when we find the right candidate.
