About CRU:
CRU International is a leading provider of business intelligence and consulting services in the metals, mining, and fertilizer industries. With over 50 years of experience, we offer valuable insights and analysis that help our clients make informed decisions in an ever-changing global market.
About the Role:
Join CRU’s global Base & Battery Metals business unit as a Battery Materials Analyst. Play a key role in shaping industry-leading market and asset-level analysis across base and battery metals, focusing on the lead market. Engage with a dynamic international team, work closely with industry stakeholders, and contribute to strategic insights in one of the world’s most critical industrial sectors.
Responsibilities:
Primary Research
- Conduct primary and secondary research, including building relationships with market, industry, and institutional contacts.
- Continuously enhance understanding of the lead and broader battery materials markets, ensuring CRU’s data remains accurate and current.
Data Analysis and Modelling
- Lead supply and demand research for CRU’s Lead Market Services in the Asia Pacific region.
- Build and maintain datasets, methodologies, and intellectual property to ensure consistency and add values.
- Develop cross-commodity analysis of trends to provide unique insights for clients.
- Manage and update data series for customer deliverables and improve existing models and workflows.
Report Writing and Presentations
- Create thought-leading narratives supported by data to explain industry trends at both global and local levels.
- Represent CRU at industry conferences and events, sharing knowledge and building networks.
- Continuously adapt and refine CRU’s client offerings, keeping them actionable and commercially relevant.
Customer Engagement and Commercial Activities
- Foster relationships with existing and potential clients to identify needs and enhance engagement with CRU’s services.
- Deliver presentations at conferences, client meetings, and product demos.
- Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams to support contract renewals and develop new business opportunities.
- Promote CRU’s expertise across the Battery Materials portfolio through media and other engagements.
Collaboration
- Work with global Base & Battery Metals teams to share knowledge and best practices.
- Uphold CRU’s values of collaboration, communication, accountability, and teamwork.
Qualifications:
Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline; postgraduate qualification advantageous.
Required Skills:
- Analytical Skills: Ability to gather and critically analyze both qualitative and quantitative data, identifying key trends and drivers to produce insightful conclusions.
- Performance-Driven: Proven ability to meet personal and team objectives, deadlines, and targets with a results-oriented approach.
- Commercial Awareness: Strong understanding of commercial drivers, consistently seeking opportunities to maximize revenue and deliver value to clients.
- Collaborative Approach: Able to balance personal initiative with effective teamwork, contributing positively to group dynamics.
- Industry Experience: Experience in the lead or base metals industry is essential, with operational knowledge highly advantageous.
- Technical and Financial Aptitude: Demonstrated ability to quickly understand and assess technical and financial aspects of the market.
- Quantitative Skills: Strong quantitative background, paired with a creative mindset to address complex challenges.
- Narrative Construction: Capable of crafting, presenting, and defending compelling sectoral narratives.
- Numeracy: Highly numerate, skilled in interpreting, manipulating, and managing data.
- Effective Communication: Fluent in both Chinese and English (written and spoken), with the ability to confidently engage across all mediums.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development as part of a global company.
- A collaborative and supportive work environment.
- The chance to work with industry-leading experts and over a diverse range of topics and projects.
