Commodity Markets Analyst

About Us:

DJJ, a division of Nucor Corporation, is seeking applicants for our Commodity Market Analyst position. DJJ is a world leader in scrap metal recycling, trading, and transportation. We have relationships with scrap metal businesses around the world. Founded in 1885, we pride ourselves on our dedication to safety, and the principles of integrity and respect. We’re recognized as a good community citizen who is trustworthy, financially strong, and environmentally proactive.

Our parent company Nucor Corporation is a Fortune 150 company, known for being North America’s leader in designing, manufacturing, and recycling steel and steel products with a history of long-term sustainability and stability. Fortune Magazine recently ranked Nucor No. 1 on their list of the World’s Most Admired Companies in our industry. The key to Nucor’s success is that we care about the safety and well-being of our teammates and customers, the health and protection of our environment, and the relationships we establish in the communities where we live and work. At the heart of every Nucor division are the dedicated people who make up our team. We are seeking a creative, motivated, and dedicated teammate to join our DJJ team. We offer you a challenging and rewarding work environment where you can contribute to the success of over 30,000 Nucor teammates.

Benefits:

SOME OF THE BEST BENEFITS IN THE BUSINESS
Medical and dental are just the beginning. We value our teammates and offer benefits packages that also include:

• Bonus program
• Profit sharing
• Retirement savings
• Vacation and holiday pay
• Scholarship and tuition reimbursement
• Unlimited growth potential
• Hybrid work schedule

For more info see: https://nucor.jujube.co/benefits/

Basic Job Functions:

• Compile, maintain and analyze financial, economic, steel, scrap industry data and competitor information through in-person, phone and email interactions, and technical tools such as Excel, Project R, and Power BI
• Provide scrap and steel industry financial and economic analysis based on internal and external information sources
• Create both recurring and ad hoc analysis for internal and external customers, presentations, business analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic projects
• Forecasting of scrap prices, steel production and shipments, and market volatility
• Prepare presentations covering industry specific and macro-economic data for internal and external customers, distill the data into a professional, polished delivery product with actionable information using the most appropriate methodology
• Work with IT to develop and enhance reporting services to provide quality data for analysis
• Develop internal and external industry contacts to maintain steel, scrap, and competitor databases

Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in business
• Possess excellent analytical thinking skills and is proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel
• Intermediate to advanced MS Suite user
• Beginner to intermediate user of Project R, Python, SAS, Stata, SPSS, S+, JMP or Minitab
• Comfortable with statistical analysis – regression analysis, time-series, and Bayesian

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in economics, statistics, or mathematics
• Project Management experience, people management a plus
• Demonstrate initiative on projects and assignments
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with all levels within the company
• Willingness to provide timely and high quality analysis and reports to internal and external customers on the steel and scrap industries and company business
• Ability to collaborate with others