West Africa Commercial & Data Analyst
We are looking for an Analyst / Associate to own the data and commercial narrative behind the Group's West Africa (WAF) business. This is a commercial role for someone with an analytical mindset: you will build and maintain the evidence base — freight returns, cargo flows, and regional demand indicators — that lets the business make confident, defensible decisions about our WAF asset exposure, and you will be expected to use that evidence to influence colleagues, including pushing back constructively on the Chartering desk.
You will be the person in the room who can show, with data, that WAF-trading vessels continue to earn returns that hold up against the broader market, and that adding further WAF-exposed tonnage remains accretive to the Group even where it may tighten competitive dynamics in the trade.
Requirements
• Regional data collection: build and maintain a live picture of the West Africa market — port and berth activity, cargo volumes, waiting times, discharge rates, and freight levels — using a mix of desk research, subscription data services, and on-the-ground contacts (agents, brokers, terminal operators).