Overview
The Market Analyst is responsible for conducting deep-dive analyses of targeted market segments to identify key supply and demand drivers, emerging trends, competitive dynamics, regulatory influences, and value creation opportunities. This individual translates complex market intelligence into actionable business insights and executive-level recommendations.
The role requires a blend of analytical rigor, commercial acumen, intellectual curiosity, and strong communication skills. Success depends on the ability to independently investigate complex markets and distill findings into concise presentations for senior leadership.
The analyst is bench strength talent for the commercial team, and aspiring candidates should expect to move into a commercial account management position after a few years in this role for continued development and growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead comprehensive assessments of selected market segments.
- Quantify supply, demand, capacity, utilization, pricing, and growth trends.
- Identify key industry participants and value chain dynamics.
- Analyze competitive positioning and strategic threats.
- Monitor regulatory, macroeconomic, and technology developments.
- Assess value creation and value protection opportunities.
- Identify risks to existing markets and growth opportunities.
- Develop market scenarios and strategic implications.
- Evaluate sustainability, circular economy, and regulatory impacts where relevant.
- Build executive-ready presentations and briefing materials.
- Convert detailed analyses into strategic narratives.
- Present findings to leadership teams.
- Facilitate discussions on strategic options and business implications.
- Gather information from public sources, industry databases, customer interviews, consultants, trade associations, and internal stakeholders.
- Develop fact-based market models and forecasting assumptions.
- Maintain market intelligence databases and dashboards.
Market Analysis
Opportunity Identification
Executive Communication
Data Collection & Intelligence
Education:
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Economics, Marketing, Finance, Business, Engineering, Statistics, or related field.
- Preferred: MBA
Experience:
- Required: 5-7 years in:
- Market intelligence
- Strategic marketing
- Management consulting
- Corporate strategy
- Commercial analytics
- Business development analysis
- Preferred: manufacturing, chemicals, energy, materials, industrial products, etc.
Technical Skills:
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI or Tableau
- PowerPoint
- Market databases (ICIS, IHS, Wood Mackenzie, Nielsen, Euromonitor, etc.)
- Basic financial modeling and statistical analysis
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Marketing, Finance, Business, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field
- 5-7 years of experience in market intelligence, strategic marketing, management consulting, corporate strategy, commercial analytics, or business development analysis
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with Power BI or Tableau
- Experience with PowerPoint
- Experience using market databases such as ICIS, IHS, Wood Mackenzie, Nielsen, or Euromonitor
- Basic financial modeling and statistical analysis skills
- MBA
- Experience in manufacturing, chemicals, energy, materials, or industrial products
What We Do
AmSty is a leading integrated producer of polystyrene and styrene monomer, offering solutions and services to customers in a variety of markets throughout the Americas. AmSty is at the forefront of sustainability innovation and circular recycling. The company is a joint venture equally owned by Trinseo LLC and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP. A combination of the second largest polystyrene producer in the Americas and the third largest styrene producer in the Americas, AmSty brings great advantages to its customers. By optimizing our production, marketing and supply chain capability, focusing on safe production processes and leveraging state-of-art technologies, we have developed a strategy for success. AmSty embraces the ideas, attitudes and behaviors that have earned great results and respect for our parent companies. We apply these winning principles in our business model. Safety is paramount to our success at AmSty and it is a core focus in everything that we do. We strive daily for zero injuries and incidents. AmSty values environmental stewardship, corporate responsibility and community involvement
