kpler - Metal Insight Analyst

• 3–6 years of experience as a Commodity Analyst or Researcher with a focus on metals or closely related markets • Advanced Excel and data modelling; ability to build and manage large datasets • A foundational understanding of SQL and/or Python is necessary; you must have a strong appetite and capability to immediately deploy and develop these programming skills alongside our data operations team to automate workflows • Demonstrable experience producing published market research, reports, or commentary • Hands-on experience working with trade data, pricing series, inventory data, and/or positioning data • Experience building or contributing to supply/demand balance models or quantitative market frameworks • Comfortable forming and communicating a price view to external audiences • Experience working with proprietary or real-time trade flow data • Prior involvement in data or product development alongside a research role • Established industry network and/or media profile within metals • Behavioural Competencies: • Intellectually curious: proactively interrogates data, questions assumptions, and pursues deeper understanding • Collaborative and hybrid-minded: comfortable bridging analytical and technical workstreams • Self-directed: drives projects to completion independently, managing competing priorities across research and data work • Commercially aware: understands what clients and markets care about and frames analysis accordingly • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Economics, Statistics, Business, Data Science, Earth Sciences, Engineering, or equivalent).