Associate Consultant - Chemicals Consulting

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

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Associate Consultant - Chemicals Consulting

About the Role:

As an Associate Consultant in Chemicals Consulting, you will support project teams in solving commercial, strategic, and investment questions for clients across the global chemicals value chain. You will gather and test evidence, build structured analyses and models, and turn findings into clear, accurate, client-ready outputs. This is a development role with exposure to experienced consultants, S&P Global Energy data and experts, international clients, and a broad range of commodity and specialty chemical markets.

The Team

The Chemicals Consulting team is part of S&P Global Energy and combines market intelligence, proprietary data, industry expertise, and consulting methods to help clients make high-value decisions across the chemicals value chain. We work with chemical producers, national oil companies, governments, investors, technology providers, and financial institutions on strategy, market and commercial assessment, feasibility, techno-economics, competitiveness, transactions, sustainability, and business transformation. The team is global, collaborative, and client-led, with close links to S&P Global research, price reporting, data, analytics, and adjacent consulting practices.

Responsibilities and Impact

• Conduct structured research: Perform secondary and primary research on chemical markets, companies, assets, technologies, end-use sectors, trade, policy, and sustainability, using S&P Global Energy resources and credible external sources with clear documentation of assumptions and references.
• Build and maintain consulting analyses: Develop market sizing, supply-demand balances, competitor and asset benchmarking, price and margin analysis, production cost comparisons, value-chain maps, scenario models, and basic financial or feasibility assessments under project-team guidance.
• Synthesize evidence: Translate quantitative and qualitative evidence into concise charts, tables, written findings, and presentation pages; check calculations, units, definitions, and source consistency so that outputs are accurate, traceable, and client-ready.
• Support client engagements: Assist in interviews, client meetings, and workshops by preparing materials, capturing decisions and actions, and following through on assigned analyses; communicate progress, issues, and emerging insights clearly to the project manager.
• Contribute to team knowledge: Support the development of proposals, credentials, case studies, knowledge libraries, and reusable tools, working with research and subject-matter experts to strengthen the team’s understanding of chemical markets.
• Drive personal development: Take ownership of assigned work, meet agreed deadlines, seek feedback, and build consulting, technical, and commercial capability through formal learning, coaching, and varied project experience.

What We're Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 1+ years of relevant experience in chemical markets, energy, industrial markets, consulting, market intelligence, or financial analysis.
• Analytical Skills: Strong numerical and analytical skills, including confidence working with market and company data, checking calculations, and drawing evidence-based conclusions; proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is required.
• Communication & Learning Agility: Clear written and spoken English, with the ability to organize information logically and produce accurate, professional work; willingness to learn chemical value chains, market fundamentals, and consulting methods.

Consulting and Power Skills:

• Curiosity and Structured Problem Solving: Asks good questions, breaks work into manageable steps, and distinguishes evidence from assumption.
• Quality and Ownership: Delivers reliable work, checks details, raises issues early, and follows tasks through to completion.
• Communication and Teamwork: Explains analysis clearly, listens to feedback, and works effectively with colleagues across disciplines, seniority levels, and locations.
• Adaptability: Manages changing priorities, learns new markets and analytical techniques quickly, and applies feedback to improve performance.

Additional Preferred Qualifications.

• Specialized Knowledge: Exposure to petrochemicals, polymers, fertilizers, specialty chemicals, refining, process technology, sustainability, circularity, or industrial decarbonization.
• Technical & Digital Tools: Experience with data analysis or visualization tools, financial modeling, market databases, statistics, Python, Power BI, or similar analytical applications.
• Global Perspective: Additional language capability and prior experience working or studying in an international or client-facing environment.

About S&P Global Energy
At S&P Global Energy, our comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make superior decisions and create long-term, sustainable value. Our four core capabilities are: Platts for news and pricing; CERA for research and advisory; Horizons for energy expansion and sustainability solutions; and Events for industry collaboration.

S&P Global Energy is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global enables businesses, governments, and individuals with trusted data, expertise, and technology to make decisions with conviction. We are Advancing Essential Intelligence through world-leading benchmarks, data, and insights that customers need in order to plan confidently, act decisively, and thrive economically in a rapidly changing global landscape. Learn more at www.spglobal.com/energy.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

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. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

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. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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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.  
 
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