**About the Role:** **Grade Level (for internal use):** 12 The Associate Director of Strategy development: Benchmark Advocacy will focus on benchmark advocacy in metals and agriculture sectors across strategic markets. In this highly collaborative role, Associate Director of Strategy development will lead the dialogue with S&P Global Commodity Insights’ customers to drive adoption and wide use of Platts benchmarks across customer workflows. The role will closely partner with pricing teams, wider CI content teams, and commercial teams to effectively position and embed Platts benchmarks. **The Team:** A successful candidate will work with highly motivated and results-driven senior members of the Commercial Strategy team, whose diverse expertise and focus areas will provide the candidate abundant opportunities to collaborate and learn. **Responsibilities and Impact:** + In collaboration with regional commercial leadership, develop commercial strategy to drive growth and successful commercial outcomes for Commodity Insights’ portfolio + Effectively strengthen established benchmarks standing and drive adoption of emerging benchmarks, together with the extensive Market Insights offering + Partnering with Commodity Insights’ customers, understand relevant workflows and use-cases for appropriate Platts benchmarks, support existing and evolving customer needs + Develop strong relationships across markets, engage with strategic entities, support partnerships, tenders, RFPs, and other relevant activities that help embed Commodity Insights offering into customer workflows and drive key institutional usage + Ensure market opportunities are appropriately addressed by leveraging Commodity Insights’ combined expertise and wide capabilities + Support relevant cross functional initiatives and act an execution lead on relevant strategic projects + A successful candidate will shape the development of commercial strategy in supporting the core of Commodity Insights’ businesses. Through thoughtful and sophisticated engagements with key external stakeholders, the candidate strengthens and improve our benchmark standing; Internally, the candidate is a valuable resource for different Commercial teams, and shares customer insights with the aim to improve our work. **What We’re Looking For:** **Basic required Qualifications:** + Expert knowledge of commodity sectors, market segments, and usage of price benchmarks + Strategic mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving skills anchored by a willingness to learn and collaborate + Strong commercial acumen and negotiating skills with solid track record in engaging various parties, including the most senior internal and external stakeholders + Excellent communication, diplomacy and influencing skills, ability to partner across teams and functions **Additional Preferred Qualifications:** + Self-starter and fast learner + Habit to reflect and improve quality and efficiency of work + One or more Asian language proficiency + Capability to work with diverse datasets and models, strong data visualization and presentation skills **About S&P Global Commodity Insights** At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value. We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping. S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit http://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights . **What’s In It For** **You?** **Our Purpose:** Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world. Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress. **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. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference. **Our Values:** **Integrity, Discovery, Partnership** At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. 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. 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It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all. ----------------------------------------------------------- **Equal Opportunity Employer** S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to:  EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com  and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  **US Candidates Only:** The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf   describes discrimination protections under federal law. ----------------------------------------------------------- 202 - Middle Professional (EEO Job Group) (inactive), 20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), BSMGMT202.2 - Middle Professional Tier II (EEO Job Group) **Job ID:** 307281 **Posted On:** 2024-09-16 **Location:** Singapore, Singapore