About the Role
This senior role places you at the forefront of Europe’s polyethylene and polypropylene markets, where you will spearhead ICIS’s editorial strategy, benchmarks, and market intelligence. You will cultivate strong industry relationships, analyze market-influencing developments, and provide authoritative insights and analysis to aid customers in making informed commercial decisions. As a prominent voice in European polyolefins coverage, you will contribute to maintaining trusted pricing benchmarks and influence the future trajectory of market intelligence and product development.
Responsibilities
- Lead ICIS’ European polyolefins coverage, ensuring the quality, credibility, and impact of our polyethylene and polypropylene market intelligence and pricing.
- Serve as the market authority for European polyolefins, maintaining in-depth knowledge of supply, demand, trade flows, pricing dynamics, and emerging market trends.
- Manage industry-leading price benchmarks, using independent judgment to assess market value and ensure transparent, trusted, and robust pricing.
- Deliver high-impact analysis and insight to help customers understand market developments, manage risk, and make informed commercial decisions.
- Build and develop senior industry relationships with producers, traders, distributors, converters, and brand owners.
- Drive thought leadership by identifying key themes, risks, and opportunities relevant to customers.
- Represent ICIS externally at conferences, customer meetings, webinars, and industry events, acting as a recognized market voice.
- Shape the future of ICIS’ polyolefins offering by evolving benchmarks, developing new coverage areas, and influencing product strategy and innovation.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in polyolefins, polymers, or petrochemical markets, including a strong understanding of pricing, trade flows, and commercial market dynamics.
- Strong commercial judgment and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex information and derive clear, defensible conclusions.
- Experience working with pricing mechanisms, benchmarks, or market intelligence, and an understanding of their role in commercial decision-making.
- Proven ability to build credibility and strong relationships with senior industry stakeholders and customers.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex market developments into clear, actionable insights.
- Confidence in representing an organization externally and acting as a trusted voice in industry forums, customer meetings, and events.
- A proactive, curious, and accountable mindset, with the drive to understand markets in depth and identify emerging opportunities and risks.
- High levels of professionalism, integrity, and independence, with the presence and credibility expected of a recognized market authority.
Skills
- Market intelligence
- Pricing strategy
- Polyolefins
- Petrochemicals
- Commercial judgment
- Analytical skills
- Relationship building
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Presentation skills
- Thought leadership
Location
- Europe
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Country specific benefits
About the Company
- At ICIS, our mission is to optimize the world's resources. We help companies make strategic, sustainable decisions by bringing transparency to markets across the world. We create a comprehensive view of commodities markets, providing companies with the data and intelligence to successfully navigate across global value chains every day. Our customers benefit from instant access to price assessments, reports and forecasts, a dedicated news channel, and supply and demand data. You can learn more about ICIS at https://www.icis.com/explore.
- Our team is responsible for the pricing benchmarks, market intelligence and analysis that underpin commercial decision-making across the global petrochemicals industry. We work closely with producers, traders, distributors, converters and brand owners to deliver transparent, independent insight into chemical markets. By combining market expertise, industry engagement and robust price assessment methodologies, we help customers navigate risk, identify opportunity and understand evolving market dynamics.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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