Grade Level (for internal use):
10The Team:
The Principal Analyst for LPG and other liquid bulk products is a pivotal member of the CERA Shipping Analytics and Research team, responsible for strengthening market intelligence, research cadence, and data quality for S&P Global Energy’s Commodities at Sea service. Reporting to the analyst team leader, this role combines independent subject-matter expertise with close collaboration across a global team of analysts, data scientists, engineers, product managers, and commercial stakeholders. The analyst translates complex shipping and commodity flow signals into actionable intelligence for a diverse client base.
Responsibilities and Impact:
A core responsibility is stewardship of commodity flow and fleet metrics datasets. The analyst “owns” data integrity, monitoring for gaps and anomalies, refining pipelines and validation logic, and shaping data structure to ensure outputs remain analytically sound and commercially relevant across LPG and liquid bulk segments.
The role centers on producing and maintaining data-driven insights, written analysis, and quantitative models that clarify current market conditions and near-term trends. This includes interpreting trade flows, fleet utilization, and inventory movements, connecting these to supply-and-demand fundamentals, and presenting clear, actionable outputs with measurable indicators and stated assumptions.
The Principal Analyst integrates and reconciles data from governments, market intermediaries, and third-party providers, exercising judgment on source reliability and bias. They help expand the data ecosystem by identifying and vetting new sources, assessing feasibility and impact on products and client use cases.
Client communication is essential: the analyst translates findings into clear messages for published notes, presentations, and direct interactions, adapting analysis for different audiences while maintaining transparency and rigor. They represent Commodities at Sea’s viewpoint, helping clients interpret data within broader market context.
Original research and data mining are key; the analyst explores datasets to uncover patterns and relationships, generating distinctive, defensible insights that support new content, client conversations, and product enhancements. Their research agenda keeps the service fresh, relevant, and predictive.
Operational accountability is maintained through disciplined documentation of research processes, assumptions, and methodologies, establishing internal standards and supporting business continuity and transparency across the global analyst organization.
While coverage is mainly focused on the Americas, the analyst’s insights may extend to other global markets as needed, ensuring comprehensive and flexible market intelligence.
What We’re Looking For:
Basic Required Qualifications:
An expert-level understanding of LPG trade flows and freight market structures, maritime shipping and macroeconomics.
At least 5 years total experience in commodity research and/or trading with at least 3+ years of experience in LPG market analysis.
A technical/academic background in data analytics, machine learning and economic forecasting models that demonstrates excellent numeracy/written skills and comfortable working with large data sets from unstructured sources.
Highly skilled in Excel and PowerPoint and experience in Power BI and writing in SQL and/or Python.
About S&P Global Energy
At S&P Global Energy, our comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make superior decisions and create long-term, sustainable value. Our four core capabilities are: Platts for news and pricing; CERA for research and advisory; Horizons for energy expansion and sustainability solutions; and Events for industry collaboration.
S&P Global Energy is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise, and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive economically in a rapidly changing global landscape. Learn more at www.spglobal.com/energy.
What’s In It For You?
Our Mission:
Advancing Essential Intelligence.
Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
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20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), RESECH202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group), SWP Priority – Ratings - (Strategic Workforce Planning)Skills Required
- Expert-level understanding of LPG trade flows and market structures
- At least 5 years total experience in commodity research and/or trading
- 3+ years of experience in LPG market analysis
- Technical background in data analytics and economic forecasting
- Highly skilled in Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience in Power BI, SQL, and/or Python
What We Do
At S&P Global, we accelerate progress by delivering essential intelligence that unlocks opportunity and fosters growth. For 160 years, our insights and data have helped countries, companies and investors make decisions with conviction. We’re the world’s foremost provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics, data, research, commentary and ESG solution. Our divisions include: • S&P Global Ratings, which provides credit ratings, research and insights essential to driving growth and transparency. • S&P Global Market Intelligence, which provides insights into companies, markets and data so that business and financial decisions can be made with conviction. • S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest resource for iconic and innovative indices, which helps investors pinpoint global opportunities. • S&P Global Platts, which equips customers to identify and seize opportunities in energy and commodities, stimulating business growth and market transparency.
