Senior Market Analyst Biofuels

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Senior Market Analyst Biofuels
Fulltime based in Amsterdam

About the job
The Senior Market Analyst will be developing short to longer term market views on biofuels (e.g. biodiesel, HVO, SAF, marine fuels), feedstocks and related end-markets in support of Argent’s commercial strategy. In addition, the Analyst will analyse and present key market assumption for future investment decisions and regularly present market trends to the executive management team. Regular tasks include keeping track of industry developments (through existing subscriptions and reports), analyse market fundamentals as part of corporate development projects, report on import and export trends of our traded commodities, calculate supply & demand variables as a result of (upcoming) policy changes and present back to senior management. The role reports directly to a member the executive management team, the Group Head of Commercial, with an informal line of reporting to the Head of Corporate Development and the Head of Trade.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Operational Activities:

• Market / trade intelligence: Provide regular (daily) information and short term trends on the biofuels, feedstock and (veg) oil markets to the trade team and the executive management team as and when required wherever this is important in helping to optimise commercial outcomes. This also includes understanding the ticket markets related to the biofuel market and the price correlations.
• Market analyses end market: Update the in-house view on supply & demand fundamentals in our key markets and present this to the executive management team and Argent’s Board directors on a quarterly basis (or more frequent if required). Where required improve our framework to maintain the supply & demand fundamentals and other relevant key market data points.
• Market analyses feedstock: Analyse and update on a regular basis our in-house view on supply & demand fundamentals of our respective feedstocks and present trends and conclusions to our trade team, corporate development team and executive management team. This view is crucial for our medium term commercial decisions as well as future investment decisions.
• Corporate development and investment analyses: Support the corporate development team on market data and analyses required to test our assumptions for building strategic business cases for future growth. Argent is investigating multiple options for future expansion that requires a thorough understanding of market assumptions used for developing investment proposals.
• Monitoring developments by competition: Keep track of Argent’s main competition and their developments in various projects and investment decisions.
• Corporate Affairs support & validation: Support our corporate affairs department with calculations and analyses as a result of (upcoming) national and European policy changes impacting the demand of our end-markets (road, marine and aviation transport). This includes validating industry reports and opinions in relation to fuel consumption, biofuel blend rates and feedstock availability.
• Chemical market analyses: Provide a good summary of the market and market trends in glycerine (both crude and refined glycerine) in support of our commercial strategy as well as presenting general market trends of the chemicals used in our production process (methanol and KOH).

About Us

Argent Energy is a waste-based biodiesel producer with a vision to help decarbonise transport worldwide. Argent has 2 operational locations in Europe; Stanlow (England) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). At Argent we turn waste oils into low carbon fuel which significantly contributes to reducing the CO2 emissions of transport. We believe in using waste materials only and continuously search for new waste to be turned into higher value products. We invest in people and their development as well as R&D to drive innovation in products, technologies and operational excellence. We are highly entrepreneurial and are constantly acting on new opportunities.

Argent Energy is an expanding organisation and a leading waste based biodiesel producer with a vision to decarbonise transport globally. As part of the Swire Group, Argent Energy has the backing and ambitions to strengthen its sustainability performance and be best in class. John Swire & Sons Ltd. stems from a family business founded in 1816, which has grown in 200 years into a global company with various participations in aviation, maritime, food, trading and industry.