Economist - Agricultural Commodities

Economist - Agricultural Commodities

Department: Industry

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

Oxford Economics, a world‑leading global economic research and consultancy firm, is seeking to appoint an Economist to join our Industry Subscriptions team, with a focus on agricultural and soft commodities. This is an exciting opportunity for an early‑career economist to contribute to Oxford Economics’ commodity forecasting, analysis, and client‑facing research, with a particular emphasis on agricultural commodity markets and economic activity in the agriculture sector.

The successful candidate will support the production of regular forecasts for agricultural and soft commodities, alongside analysis of the economic drivers affecting commodity prices, supply and demand, trade flows, production conditions, and sector activity. They will combine strong economics and analytical skills with clear communication, attention to detail, and an interest in translating data, market developments, and modelling outputs into practical insight for subscription clients.

This role would suit an economist with around 1–3 years of professional experience who is looking to develop their expertise in agricultural commodities, commodity price forecasting, sector analysis, modelling, and client‑facing economic research within a leading global economics business.

• Agricultural Commodity Forecasting & Analysis:
  Support the production, maintenance, and improvement of regular forecasts for agricultural and soft commodities, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely, analytically robust, and commercially relevant.
• Agriculture Sector Analysis:
  Analyse economic activity in the agriculture sector, including supply and demand conditions, production trends, trade flows, input costs, weather‑related risks, policy developments, and other drivers affecting agricultural commodity markets.
• Commodity Research & Client Insight:
  Contribute to written analysis, reports, briefings, presentations, and webinars covering agricultural commodity price developments, risks, outlooks, and implications for clients.
• Economic Modelling:
  Assist with the development and enhancement of commodity and sector forecasting models, using economic theory, statistical techniques, and data‑driven approaches to support forecast accuracy and analytical depth.
• Data Management & Interpretation:
  Work with economic, financial, agricultural, trade, and commodity market datasets to identify trends, assess developments, and generate meaningful insights for internal and external audiences.
• Client Support:
  Support the preparation of client‑facing materials and, over time, contribute to client meetings, webinars, and presentations by helping communicate commodity market analysis and forecasts clearly.
• Product & Methodology Development:
  Contribute to the ongoing development of Oxford Economics’ commodity and industry subscription products, including improvements to datasets, visualisations, methodologies, and analytical frameworks.
• Cross‑Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with economists, data specialists, editors, and commercial teams across Oxford Economics to support consistency, quality, and relevance across subscription outputs.
• Quality & Process Support:
  Help maintain high standards across team deliverables through careful checking, review, documentation, and continuous improvement of analytical processes.

• Around 1–3 years of professional experience in an economics‑focused role, ideally within commodity research, agricultural economics, economic research, forecasting, consulting, government, financial services, market analysis, or a corporate strategy environment.
• Strong academic background in economics, agricultural economics, commodities, finance, or a closely related discipline. A postgraduate qualification would be advantageous.
• Good understanding of macroeconomic analysis and commodity market drivers, including supply and demand, trade, production, inventories, input costs, exchange rates, inflation, policy developments, and business cycles.
• Some experience working with economic data, commodity market data, forecasting…