Student Analyst - Plastics Recycling

Student Analyst - Plastics Recycling (m/f/d)

Karlsruhe | Part time

About the Role

We are looking for a quantitative student analyst to join our growing plastic recycling analytics team in Karlsruhe (Germany).

Plastics recycling is one of the core sustainability areas of European industry and is already taking place to a significant extend. ICIS is at the forefront of reporting and analysing the market dynamics and holds probably the best dataset in the industry. The relevant players are our customers and ICIS analysts are respected experts in these markets. In Karlsruhe we focus on quantitative analysis, modelling and data science. You will help us improving existing and developing new price forecasting models for plastic recycling commodities. You will work on your own project, develop your own ideas and contribute significantly to our products. You work together with our experienced analyst team to receive support and have challenging discussions.

Main Responsibilities:

• Understand, discuss and improve modelling concepts of recycled plastics markets

• Program new price models and integrate data flows to existing data

• Work to extend our datasets

• Understand, analyze and model the repercussions of legislation on the market

• Support the quantitative analysts in translating regulation into quantitative data

• Prepare your own analysis (forecasts, text and data visualization) and publish it on our client facing website

Key skills:

• Studying at KIT relevant subject like business engineering, business informatics …

• Good programming skills (Python)

• Ability to work with databases

• Understanding of economics and markets

• Interest in plastics and plastics recycling markets and market modelling

• Self-driven and well organized

• Fluent in English, German and/or other languages is a plus

• Motivated to learn and grow

We offer:

• Challenging tasks with a lot of individual learning in the areas of market modelling, programming, data handling, and plastics recycling

• Active involvement and responsibility from Day 1

• Do your own research with professional support at the current knowledge frontier

• Become an expert in market modelling and plastics recycling while studying

• Be part of a vibrant team with an amazing team culture

• Competitive wage

• Flexible working hours organized around your university needs

(15-20 hours / week on average)

• Long term perspective of challenging work in one of the most important sustainability areas

• Great office with free drinks, vegetables and food, table football and table tennis, barbeque in summer, kitchen for cooking, winter garden…

Join an experienced and fast-growing team to contribute to an improved development of plastics recycling.

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