Senior Director, Process Oversight – Improvement
Centene Corporation
Associate Director, Head – Americas Proteins
S&P Global
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Analysis of fundamental supply and demand drivers impacting global agricultural markets, working with the teams covering livestock and proteins markets, with a focus on North and South America.
- Work closely with the regional protein market leads as well as individual commodity analysts in the region to ensure overall quality and alignment of analysis.
- Responsible for tracking developments impacting supply/demand producers, processors, exporters, and importers in the Americas.
- Lead interaction with customers who are both based in the Americas and/or seeks insights into North and South American markets, presenting both commodity-specific analysis and the global analysis produced by themselves and the greater team.
- Convey the results of research through a variety of outlets including internal meetings, written reports for clients, the S&P Global Commodity Insights platform, formal presentations, and informal interactions with clients via conference calls and emails.
- Develop a high degree of expertise and develop a reputation of thought leadership within the food and commodities industry.
- Directly manage the Americas protein teams and be responsible for their performance and development, in association with the Global Head of Crops and Proteins.
Requirements
- A Masters in Agricultural Economics, Economics, or Business Administration with an outstanding understanding of the economics of crop production, demand, supply chain, and of cash commodity markets, and passion for commodity markets and how they operate.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in agricultural commodities markets.
- A high degree of analytic ability that can be applied across the wide agricultural crops markets; Ability to understand complex economic conditions and relate these and their implications to assigned markets and the wider supply chain.
- Knowledge of businesses located in the commodity supply chain, particularly the risks and challenges they face operating in commodity markets.
- Extraordinary intellectual curiosity.
- Ability to manage a team of analysts and be responsible for the quality of their contribution and development as analysts.
- Superior written and oral communication skills in English.
- Additional language skills are a plus.
- Excellent MS Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
- Experience in SQL, R, and Python is a plus.
- You will have high energy, are willing and able to deal with client requests as they arise, and travel as the job requires.
Benefits
- Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
- Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
- Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
- Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
- Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
- Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
agricultural economicseconomic analysissupply chain analysiscommodity market analysisdata analysisSQLRPythonMS ExcelMS Access
Soft skills
analytical abilityteam managementcommunication skillsintellectual curiosityclient interactionpresentation skillsreport writingleadershipproblem-solvingadaptability
