Senior Analyst - Market Analysis (6-Months Contract/Secondment)

Why explore

• An opportunity to work on a variety of complex projects and influence key decisions globally
• Work in a collaborative and fast paced environment
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Analyst to join our Market Analysis team. The role is a six-months contract/secondment opportunity with a strong project focus. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver tangible improvements to our freight market analytical capability, including enhanced supply-demand modelling, forecasting tools and recurring market intelligence reports, while providing high-quality market analysis to support commercial decision making.

The Market Analysis team sits within Rio Tinto’s Commercial Function and is responsible for generating short-to-medium-term market insights (up to 5 years). This incorporates macroeconomic analysis, supply and demand forecasts (including downstream sectors), trading support, and price forecasting. The team leverages on these insights and analysis to support Commercial decision-making and generate value across Sales & Marketing, Procurement and Marine & Logistics.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Procurement, Marine & Logistics Market Analysis, you will:

• Lead the development and enhancement of dry bulk freight supply and demand models, linking commodity trade flows, cargo volumes, tonne-mile demand, vessel supply and fleet productivity to freight market balances and rate outlooks.
• Develop a forward-looking freight demand framework, translating changes in key dry bulk commodity flows into vessel demand by commodity and vessel class.
• Build and enhance vessel supply and effective-capacity models, incorporating fleet growth, newbuilding deliveries, scrapping, vessel speeds, congestion, ballast patterns and other utilisation factors.
• Develop short- and medium-term freight market outlooks, identifying emerging market imbalances, inflection points and risks across key dry bulk segments.
• Produce regular freight market reports and executive briefings, distilling market developments, freight rate movements and underlying supply/demand drivers into concise, commercially relevant insights.
• Partner with commercial, shipping, commodity and analytical teams to translate market analysis into actionable commercial insights and support freight strategy and decision making.
• Establish clear model documentation, methodologies and handover processes, ensuring analytical tools and frameworks are robust, transparent and suitable beyond the fixed-term assignment.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• University degree in either a technical or commercial discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in dry bulk shipping, freight, commodity research, market intelligence or related analytics.
• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining fundamental market models and forecasts, and translating analytical output into forward-looking market views.
• High attention to detail and a proactive, curious approach to problem solving.
• Ability to synthesise quantitative and qualitative information into clear insights.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills with experience in modelling and data analysis.
• Willingness to learn new tools and platforms to improve process flows.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools and coding to automate data collection, processing and reporting workflows.
• Good team-player who can work on independent projects and collaboratively as part of a global team.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you will be working

Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell), Global Procurement (Buy), and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy, sell and move the materials the world needs, by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.

Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering cross‑functionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver mine‑to‑market value around the world.

Application Deadline: 16 November 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.” 

About Rio Tinto
 

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.
 

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.