Senior Analyst - Market Analysis (6-Months Contract)

Why explore

• An opportunity to work on a variety of complex projects and influence key decisions globally
• Work in a collaborative and fast paced environment
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Analyst to join our Market Analysis team. The role is a six-months contract opportunity with a strong project focus. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver tangible improvements to our freight market analytical capability, including enhanced supply-demand modelling, forecasting tools and recurring market intelligence reports, while providing high-quality market analysis to support commercial decision making.

The Market Analysis team sits within Rio Tinto’s Commercial Function and is responsible for generating short-to-medium-term market insights (up to 5 years). This incorporates macroeconomic analysis, supply and demand forecasts (including downstream sectors), trading support, and price forecasting. The team leverages on these insights and analysis to support Commercial decision-making and generate value across Sales & Marketing, Procurement and Marine & Logistics.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Procurement, Marine & Logistics Market Analysis, you will:

• Lead the development and enhancement of dry bulk freight supply and demand models, linking commodity trade flows, cargo volumes, tonne-mile demand, vessel supply and fleet productivity to freight market balances and rate outlooks.
• Develop a forward-looking freight demand framework, translating changes in key dry bulk commodity flows into vessel demand by commodity and vessel class.
• Build and enhance vessel supply and effective-capacity models, incorporating fleet growth, newbuilding deliveries, scrapping, vessel speeds, congestion, ballast patterns and other utilisation factors.
• Develop short- and medium-term freight market outlooks, identifying emerging market imbalances, inflection points and risks across key dry bulk segments.
• Produce regular freight market reports and executive briefings, distilling market developments, freight rate movements and underlying supply/demand drivers into concise, commercially relevant insights.
• Partner with commercial, shipping, commodity and analytical teams to translate market analysis into actionable commercial insights and support freight strategy and decision making.
• Establish clear model documentation, methodologies and handover processes, ensuring analytical tools and frameworks are robust, transparent and suitable beyond the fixed-term assignment.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• University degree in either a technical or commercial discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in dry bulk shipping, freight, commodity research, market intelligence or related analytics.
• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining fundamental market models and forecasts, and translating analytical output into forward-looking market views.
• High attention to detail and a proactive, curious approach to problem solving.
• Ability to synthesise quantitative and qualitative information into clear insights.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills with experience in modelling and data analysis.
• Willingness to learn new tools and platforms to improve process flows.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools and coding to automate data collection, processing and reporting workflows.
• Good team-player who can work on independent projects and collaboratively as part of a global team.