Senior Analyst - Energy Storage Systems, Analysis & Forecasts (Hybrid)

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate eager to help leading companies and governments transition to a low carbon, sustainable future by collecting, analyzing and delivering the data and insights that our clients need to navigate this change.

The Senior Analyst will be a content leader in the battery raw materials research team, with a focus on Energy Storage Systems (ESS). The Senior Analyst contributes directly to the overall house view, overseeing data collection and analysis, and delivering Fastmarkets’ quarterly ESS outlook report and 10-year forecast. Specifically, you will lead on providing a coherent market outlook, considering renewable energy forecasts and associated ESS demand, battery chemistry and raw material demand, analysis on cell design and costs, insights on regional market characteristics, and the implications of ESG and policy for supply chain risk.

You will be joining a dynamic global team of researchers dedicated to understanding the rapidly evolving energy transition and battery raw materials markets. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude and can juggle a wide variety of tasks and projects.

Principal accountabilities

To lead on ESS market analysis and forecasts:

· Identifies necessary data inputs and oversees procurement, collection, cleaning and validating for creating a renewable energy forecast, energy storage demand and country-level market fundamentals.

· Partnering with Fastmarkets’ Battery Cost Analyst, analyses and integrates raw material price and chemistry outlooks to estimate costs for energy storage cells.

· Updates analysis on market fundamentals, comprised of country-level data on ESS deployments, ESS targets, and key drivers and barriers for adoption.

· Supplements forecast models with content creation on the battery raw materials market, technology development, regulatory/policy developments, ESG regulations, and trade policy that impacts the ESS market.

· Is the lead author of Fastmarkets' Quarterly ESS Outlook and 10-Year Forecast Report, and controls input from internal and external contributors to guarantee timely and coherent updates for our customers.

· Leads development of new and enhanced analysis and content for the quarterly report.

· Manages client and internal enquiries about the ESS market and is accountable for fulfilment of requests for insight and data for presentations and interviews.

· Data and analysis contributions for presentations at industry events, forums, webinars and product marketing.

· Uses their network to engage with market participants, gain insights across the value chain, promote Fastmarkets data and insights and identify opportunities for product enhancements.

· Acts as subject matter expert to showcase value to prospective clients in partnership with sales.

· Works with consulting on projects by interacting with clients, helping specify and design studies which deliver to client needs, undertaking primary and secondary research, and supporting delivery.

Key interfaces

· Head of BRM (Line Manager)

· BRM Commodity Analysts

· BRM Research Analysts

· Editorial, marketing and sales