Director, Market Analysis

Job description

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**Basic Purpose/Accountabilities:**
The Director, Market Analysis plays a crucial role in supporting Singapore Trading activities by providing oversight and guidance to the Market Analysts group.

This support encompasses offering fundamental analysis direction to the analysts, as well as serving as the Strategist for Global Heavies Trading.


The incumbent will lead the local team of Market Analysts and collaborate with strategists and analysts in other Phillips 66 offices to develop trading strategies based on fundamental analysis, focusing on Heavies.

The Director, Market Analysis is expected to actively engage local trading managers to understand business needs and tailor analysis accordingly.


**Primary Responsibilities:**

* Understand local key trading positions in crude, clean products, fuel oil, NGL, LPG, renewables and coordinate local market analysts’ work to suggest/evaluate required analysis to ensure all aspects of a trade position is understood. 
* Coordinate development and maintenance of supply and demand models for the Heavies group and understand other supply / demand models supported by other commodity strategists.

This involves working closely with Trading to understand the market trends, incorporate downtime, seasonal cycles, macroeconomic variables and utilize import/export data to ensure models are accurate and accepted by trading. 
* Work with market analysts to improve the accuracy of supply and demand models and forecasts for short and medium terms. 
* Identify market anomalies and communicate to Trading on what physical market and forward market changes might occur.

This includes understanding and communicating geopolitical and regulatory events/factors which impact price movements. 
* Collaborate with traders and global team of strategists to predict market behaviours using models and identify additional fundamental data to develop forward global market views using predictive models. 
* Network and develop relationships with external consultants and other analysts in the industry for market understanding. 
* Participate in weekly meetings with traders and collaborate to generate trading ideas, formulate short-term market views and trading strategies centered on spreads, options, flat and floating prices for physical and paper trades. 
* Lead local team of market analysts in preparation of global trading meetings and provide ad hoc analysis and help with data augmentation exercises carried by the analysis team. 
* Work with the Chief Economist Office by updating corporate long-range price forecasts. 
* Assist with the development and implementation of Quantitative Analysis methods, as appropriate, to capitalize on opportunities in financials trading in the various derivatives markets. 
* Work with third party consultants and brokers to understand and evaluate views on oil movements and factor those into development of Phillips 66’s market view. 
* Coach / mentor the team of analysts to support their development within the company by fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment to drive excellence and continuous improvement in analytical capabilities. 

**Basic / Required Qualifications: **
* Master’s or advance degree in engineering, finance or economics
* 10+ years of market analysis experience at a major oil company, commodity trading house or investment bank with previous experience in leading a team of market analysts
* Prior working experience in other trading hubs like London, NYC, Dubai or Houston is a plus
* Financial, economic, statistical analysis or modelling experience required
* Strong written, oral communication and presentation skills
* Proficiency with Excel, Access or other database software, statistical modelling software, and economic model development is a plus with coding experience in SQL, VBA, Python, R or other programming language
* High degree of collaborative skills with the ability to develop, lead and actively participate on cross functional teams and counterparts globally


We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.


**Phillips 66 International Trading Pte Ltd adopts the Tripartite Standards and is committed to be a fair and progressive employer.**

### Place of Work
Hybrid
### Requisition ID
141811
### Application Email
Recruitmentsingapore@p66.com

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