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Department: Intelligence

Responsible to: Commodity Intelligence Manager

Location: Bourne End

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Senior Market Analyst to join its growing team. In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s top food manufacturers and retailers. These companies rely on our extensive pricing data to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability.

Mintec is rapidly growing serving this huge and burgeoning global market and is seeking an experienced and ambitious Senior Market Analyst to join our intelligence team. Using advanced technology and supported by data- driven Intelligence coupled with strong research and commodity knowledge across a wide range of markets, from raw materials to indirect costs, the team provide pivotal and valuable insight to our clients.

The successful candidate will be a valuable member of the Intelligence team and a “go to” source on market insight and current events in the industry. The Senior Market Analyst would be recognised as an ‘expert’ within their market(s)- based on the content delivered and contacts established. They will undertake price forecasting within their assigned commodity markets.

This position is based in our Bourne End office.

Responsibilities:

•Interpreting market research data, formulating insight and making recommendations based upon research findings;

•Interpreting commodity pricing data and external drivers to forecast commodity prices;

•Leading and managing the deliverables across fruit and vegetables; including forecast reports, media articles, client queries, etc;

•Coaching and supporting analysts on best practices;

•Leading projects successfully, managing the team on projects and playing a key role in developing client relationship;

•Providing commodity insight/data for Mintec’s online platform and participating in new product development projects;

•Providing commodity insight to media channels;

•Presenting commodity insight to internal and external stakeholders i.e. participating in client calls and presentations;

•Building and maintaining contacts in the industry, and collating information from key industry participants;

•Performing primary and secondary market analysis;

•Delivering continuous improvement in market knowledge;

•Continually challenging, refining and improving operational processes to achieve improvement in productivity and quality of service;

•Proactively thinking about how to improve the team's profile through the content delivered;

•Showing strategic thought leadership on how Mintec’s deliverables can reach a wider audience.

Required Qualifications:

We are looking for someone with specific experience within Market Analysis of agricultural products who has an inquisitive, rational and intellectual approach to analysing fundamental data, macro and market information with the ability to deliver a cohesive and credible commodity market outlook.

Experience and Education:

•University degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering or in a similar numeric field

•Minimum 6 years’ experience of the commodities market, mainly in the physical agricultural markets, experience of fruit and vegetables would be ideal

•Experience of people management is desirable but a willingness to and ability to contribute towards the thought leadership within the intelligence team is required

Skills:

•Understanding of commodities price theory, including the fundamental drivers for supply, demand, trade flows and prices and their mutual interaction

•Experience in commodity price forecasting would be ideal

•Primary and secondary research capabilities

•Excellent analytical, qualitative and quantitative skills, with strong attention to detail

•Strong communication and presentation skills with a proven ability to quickly build and maintain positive, effective relationships across all levels in an organization

•Experience in leading or project managing the delivery of commodity insight

•Excellent writing skills, able to articulate insight and reports clearly and concisely

•Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a fast-paced team environment

•Self-starter with strong continuous improvement mindset

Role duration: Permanent

Location: Bourne End

Department: Marketing

Responsible to: Head of Marketing

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Sales and Marketing Development Representative to join its expanding team. In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s top food manufacturers and retailers. These companies rely on our extensive pricing data to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability.

The main purpose of this job is to be working as the link between the sales and the marketing teams to ensure that marketing campaigns are rolled out and return on investment is measured, whilst generating quality new business leads for the sales team. The successful candidate will assist Mintec to develop and deliver its sales and marketing strategy to support the brand, engage customers and drive revenues in existing and new markets. This is to be achieved by developing the profile of Mintec through the full range of marketing activity and supporting the pipelining of new business.

In addition to creating and following up on a pipeline of new business leads through a combination of direct calls as well as emails, you will facilitate client marketing activities by working closely with our commercial, product and data teams as well as coordinating with external vendors. Using a combination of tools including HubSpot and Salesforce you will ensure our clients are kept up to date with our services and product offerings through our website and through inbound and outbound marketing activity.

Responsibilities:

•Working as the bridge between the sales and marketing team, ensuring that marketing work is delivered and supports the work of the sales team

•Proactive calling and direct engagement with individuals at B2B companies to arrange appointments for the new business sales team, working from a database of lead information as well as your own cold calling of targeted mapped leads

•Plan, evaluate, schedule, track and analyse the successes of all marketing programs

•Develop and write marketing copy/messaging for use in all marketing collateral

•Employ a range of marketing and social media tools to engage with audiences

•Monitor and report on the performance and effectiveness of marketing activity

•Develop, manage and maintain collateral to branding guidelines.

•Provide updates to the website, using a content management system

•Maximising all selling opportunities for the new business sales team, through questioning skills, ascertaining prospective customer needs and key issues

•Scheduling appointments

•Carrying out follow up calls to confirm appointments

•Managing your own diary and the new business sales team’s

•Working to targets and KPI’s

•Providing a professional and efficient service to all customers

•CRM Database administration

•Query handling & general administration

•Other responsibilities as determined by management

•To ensure ISO 27001 training is attended and all mandatory documents have been read to ensure working practices comply

Skills:

•Previous telesales or sales experience would be ideal

•The ability to engage with people at all levels within businesses and communicate confidently and effectively is key for this role

•Background or of working in a professional office-based environment covering roles such as administration, Reception, B2B sales roles

•Experience of working across business databases would be helpful

•Attention to detail is key for this role as is the ability to be organised

•The successful candidate will be organised, focussed and proactive

•Active listening skills are essential for this role

•Personable, ability to converse on the phone with ease and professionalism will be important skills to demonstrate during the application process

Join a culture of innovation.

“Digital tools such as those supplied by Mintec have become essential to procurement teams.”

Spencer Wicks,
CEO Mintec

Join a culture of innovation.

“Digital tools such as those supplied by Mintec have become essential to procurement teams.”

Spencer Wicks,
CEO Mintec

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Join a culture of innovation.

“Digital tools such as those supplied by Mintec have become essential to procurement teams.”

Spencer Wicks,CEO Mintec

Join a culture of innovation.

“Digital tools such as those supplied by Mintec have become essential to procurement teams.”

Spencer Wicks,CEO Mintec

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Spencer Wicks,
CEO Mintec

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CEO Mintec