Strategy Innovation Analyst

About Marex

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The Marex Solutions Strategy Team works across markets, technology, and product development. The team partners with traders, structurers, sales teams, and other internal stakeholders to generate market insights, trade ideas, client materials, analytical tools, and desk infrastructure. Analysts work on real market problems, gaining exposure to derivatives, cross-asset strategy, data analysis, automation, technology, and the practical day-to-day needs of a front-office desk.

For more information visit https://www.marex.com/

Role Summary

We are looking for an Analyst to join the Marex Solutions Strategy Team in London. The role sits at the intersection of financial markets, technology, and product innovation.

This person will help build the tools, workflows, dashboards, data connections, and AI-enabled market intelligence systems for the Strategy and Trading desks. The role also involves producing thematic trade ideas and dashboards across asset classes (equities, fixed income, FX, crypto and commodities).

AI tooling is an important part of the role, including AI agents, automation, and modern data tools. The role also requires clear communication and project coordination with technology, AI, quant, and front-office teams.

The ideal candidate is creative, curious, technically capable, and adventurous, with a strong interest in financial markets and a practical ability to turn ideas into working tools.

Responsibilities

The Strategy Innovation Analyst / Associate will support the Strategy Team by helping build and improve the tools, systems, market intelligence, and trade ideas used across the desk.

Internal Tooling & Desk Infrastructure

Build and maintain internal tools that help the strategy team, traders, structurers, sales, and COO-related teams work faster and more effectively.

Data Plumbing, Pricing Inputs & Connectivity

Help connect data sources, prices, market feeds, files, APIs, and internal outputs into clean, usable workflows. Support the practical backend work needed to make dashboards and tools reliable.

Dashboards, Visual Analytics & Market Monitoring

Design and build dashboards, visual tools, and market monitors covering equity themes, macro themes, commodities, rates, volatility, positioning, flows, and other relevant market topics.

Automation & Workflow Improvement

Identify manual or repetitive processes and help automate them through scripts, templates, pipelines, APIs, or lightweight applications.

AI & Modern Technology Tooling

Use AI tools, LLMs, agents, and modern data techniques to improve research, market monitoring, internal productivity, idea generation, and information retrieval.

Thematic Market Projects

Support market-driven projects such as equity trade idea dashboards, thematic investment screens, El Nino / weather impact analysis, commodity dashboards, cross-asset monitors, and other strategy-led initiatives.

Collaboration with Front Office Teams

Work closely with traders, structurers, sales, strategy, and operational stakeholders to understand practical desk needs and turn them into usable tools.

Creative Problem Solving

Bring new ideas, new technologies, and new approaches to the team. Test, prototype, iterate, and build in a pragmatic way.

Skills and Experience:
Education

• Bachelor's degree or higher in any discipline, with evidence of analytical ability, problem-solving skills, and technical curiosity. Relevant fields may include finance, economics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, data science, design, or similar, but we are open to different backgrounds.

Programming, Data & Automation

• Some coding ability required, ideally in Python or a similar language.
• Experience building scripts, dashboards, data workflows, analytical tools, or automation processes.
• Familiarity with APIs, databases, data ingestion, data cleaning, and structured datasets.

AI & Modern Tooling

• Strong fluency with modern AI tools, including LLMs and AI-assisted workflows.
• Interest in applying AI to research, monitoring, text analysis, market intelligence, document processing, and internal productivity.
• Hands-on experience with AI agents, embeddings, NLP, or related tools would be helpful but is not required.

Dashboards & Visual Analytics

• Experience or interest in building dashboards and visual tools using platforms such as Plotly, Dash, Streamlit, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or similar.
• Strong visual judgement and attention to usability.

Markets & Product Awareness

• Interest in financial markets across one or more asset classes, including equities, rates, commodities, credit, FX, crypto, or volatility.
• Awareness of derivatives or structured products is helpful, but the role does not require pricing ownership.

Experience & Communication

• Suitable for an analyst level candidate.
• Experience may come from internships, academic projects, personal projects, coding projects, finance roles, research work, data analysis, or software development.
• Able to work independently while also contributing to a collaborative desk environment.
• London-based or willing to relocate to London.

Competencies:

Technical Builder Mindset - Comfortable building practical tools and fixing messy workflow problems. Able to move between prototype, dashboard, data process, and internal system support.

Financial Markets Interest - Strong interest in markets, economics, trading, derivatives, and thematic investment ideas. Prior deep derivatives knowledge is helpful but not required.

AI & Technology Curiosity - Actively follows developments in AI, data tools, automation, software, and market technology. Brings new ideas to the team and tests them in practical ways.

Creativity & Adventure - Enjoys building new things, trying different approaches, and thinking beyond standard market commentary or spreadsheet-based analysis.

Practical Execution - Able to work through imperfect data, unclear requirements, changing priorities, and fast-moving requests. Comfortable with hands-on problem solving.

Collaborative Desk Orientation - Works well with traders, structurers, sales, strategy, COO teams, and technical stakeholders. Listens to feedback and adapts tools to real usage.

Clear Communication - Able to explain tools, outputs, and market insights clearly to both technical and non-technical users.

Company Values

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients

Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders

Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.

Be respectful - how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.

Nurture talent - we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.  We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce.  Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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