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# Junior Market Data Analyst – Chartering at Kpler

- **Company:** Kpler
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/kpler/cb46dda8-a36f-4d77-b9f3-90ec61f0d1d4

## Job description

At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors. Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 700 experts from 35+ countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success.

## Your future position

Join Kpler’s Chartering team as a Junior Market Data Analyst – Chartering and play a key role in ensuring the quality and accuracy of the data that powers our Chartering products.

Kpler’s Chartering products rely on accurate vessel, ownership and market data to help charterers, shipowners and brokers make informed commercial decisions. In this role, you will work hands-on with the datasets behind these products, investigating inconsistencies, validating information and helping improve data quality at scale.

Your work will span a range of chartering datasets, from vessel ownership and characteristics to fixtures, cargo orders, vessel positions and shipping zones. You will use SQL and Python to extract, transform and analyse data, build validation checks and investigate potential issues.

This is a role for someone who enjoys getting into the detail of data, asking why something doesn't look right and finding ways to identify and solve problems systematically. You will work closely with Product, Data, Research, Engineering and AI/ML teams, turning individual data issues into broader improvements across Kpler's datasets and products.

Your mission is to:

- Monitor, validate and improve the quality of key datasets supporting Kpler's Chartering products.
- Investigate data gaps, inconsistencies and customer-reported issues, using data analysis to understand their root causes and drive them through to resolution.
- Curate and validate vessel ownership, commercial management, operator information and relevant vessel characteristics.
- Review and benchmark AI-parsed fixtures, identifying recurring extraction errors and building validation approaches to measure and improve parsing quality.
- Use SQL to query large datasets, including cargo and AIS data, to investigate potential issues and identify incorrect or inconsistent information at scale.
- Use Python notebooks to extract, transform and analyse data and develop validation scripts and repeatable quality checks.
- Maintain and improve Kpler's chartering-specific shipping zones and geographical mappings, using tools such as QGIS.
- Work with Product, Data, Research, Engineering and AI/ML teams to provide structured feedback and help improve the quality of underlying datasets and extraction processes.
- Translate individual data-quality issues into systematic improvements where appropriate, identifying patterns rather than only correcting individual records.
- Contribute to the development of new analytical views and algorithms as the Chartering product evolves, including areas such as CPP/DPP and projected vessels.
- Help establish and track data-quality metrics, benchmarks and processes as Chartering datasets expand.

Experience & Background:

- 1–3 years of experience in data analysis, market research, maritime/shipping, commodities or a related analytical role.
- Proven hands-on experience with SQL and confidence writing queries to analyse and investigate large datasets.
- Proven hands-on experience with Python, including working in notebooks and using Python for data analysis, transformation or validation.
- Strong Excel / Google Sheets skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail and an ability to identify patterns and inconsistencies in data.
- Comfortable working with large datasets and extracting and transforming data to investigate specific questions

Desirable:

- Understanding of shipping, chartering or commodity markets.
- Familiarity with tanker and/or dry-bulk vessel segments.
- Understanding of concepts such as fixtures, vessel positions, cargo orders, vessel ownership and shipping geography.
- Experience working with AI/LLM-extracted or other machine-generated datasets.
- Experience with maritime data providers, brokers, shipowners, charterers or commodity trading companies.

Behavioural Competencies

- You are naturally curious and want to understand why data is wrong, not just identify that it is wrong.
- You are highly detail-oriented and take a methodical approach to investigating data issues.
- You take ownership of problems and follow them through from investigation to resolution.
- You thrive in an environment where data quality, accuracy and continuous improvement are central to the work.

We are a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connections and innovating solutions to tackle market challenges head-on. If you thrive on customer satisfaction and turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us? We make things happen We act decisively and with purpose, going the extra mile. We build together We foster relationships and develop creative solutions to address market challenges. We are here to help We are accessible and supportive to colleagues and clients with a friendly approach. We are here to help We are accessible and supportive to colleagues and clients with a friendly approach. Our People Pledge Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience can come in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.

## About Kpler

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kpler is a data and analytics platform providing real-time intelligence on global commodity flows, vessel movements, and physical trade.
- **Entity Type**: Private (PE-backed; primarily founder- and employee-owned)
- **Headquarters**: Brussels, Belgium
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Two engineers (names not publicly listed) who started the company in a kitchen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Maritime and commodity trade intelligence; data & analytics (classified as Technology, Information and Media)
- **Target customers**: B2B — commodity traders, analysts, shipping professionals, energy companies, supply chain operators, and financial institutions across 40+ markets (liquids, gas, dry bulk, freight, power)
- **Mission**: "Serve as the definitive intelligence platform for global physical trade, driving real-time decisions"

## Products & Services
- **Kpler Platform**: Subscription-based real-time cargo tracking and commodity flow analytics covering 40+ markets, including vessel movements, volumes, product grades, buyers/sellers, and forecasted destinations.
- **MarineTraffic**: World's leading ship tracking and maritime intelligence provider, acquired as a Kpler brand.
- **Inbox**: Collaborative communication platform designed specifically for the maritime and global supply chain industry.
- **Kpler APIs & Data Integrations**: Developer portal for embedding trade-flow and maritime data into applications, plus an Excel Add-In, Cloud DB, and Snowflake-native data solutions.
- **Kpler MCP (Beta)**: Model Context Protocol integration that lets large language models translate plain-language requests into precise API calls, returning answers as narrative, charts, or CSV.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$201.6M** across funding rounds, most recently a Private Equity round (April 2022) led by Insight Partners and Five Arrows Growth Capital, followed by a secondary market round (June 2026) led by Sixth Street.
- **Annual Revenue**: LinkedIn's data provider reports **EUR 6.7M** — this figure appears significantly understated relative to the company's scale (850+ employees, profitable since launch) and should be treated as an unreliable estimate.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners, Five Arrows Growth Capital, Sixth Street
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+22.1% YoY** (data provider reports 599 employees; company site reports 850+ employees and 69 nationalities)
  - Acquisitions: **FleetMon** (March 2023) and **COR-e** (September 2022), plus MarineTraffic
  - **54 active job postings**; job postings up **+116% YoY**
  - Expanding into power markets with dedicated Data Engineer and ML Engineer roles
  - Processes **1.3bn+ AIS signals per day** with a global network of agents and experts

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary datasets**: 1.3bn+ AIS signals per day and 245k–255k+ tracked assets/experts create a defensible data moat.
- **First-mover in LNG**: Revolutionized the LNG market with the first cargo-tracking solution in 2014.
- **Profitable from the start**: Remains primarily owned by founders and team members, allowing long-term product focus.
- **Global footprint**: Operations in 10+ countries with workforce distributed across 34+ countries, providing on-the-ground intelligence and 24/7 coverage.
- **Brand portfolio**: MarineTraffic and FleetMon extend reach across maritime and supply chain segments.

## Strategic Focus
- Building a "singular platform for global trade intelligence" that consolidates commodities, freight, and maritime data.
- Expanding into **power markets** and adjacent commodity verticals.
- Investing in **AI/ML capabilities**, including the MCP beta for LLM-driven data access and ML engineering hires.
- Deepening **data integrations** (APIs, Snowflake, Cloud DB, Excel) to embed Kpler data into customer workflows.

## Why Work Here
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid, fully remote, or on-site options; employees can work from central office spaces, sponsored co-working hubs, or fully remote.
- **Perks**: WFH monthly allowance for electricity and wi-fi, top-of-range office equipment and setup budget, health insurance coverage.
- **Leave**: Global maternity, parental, medical, festival, and compassionate leave policies.
- **Culture**: 69 nationalities across the company; regular online and on-site social events; described as "globally minded, flexibility-driven, and innovation-fueled."
- **Employer rating**: 3.7/5 from 158 reviews on LinkedIn — Work-Life 3.7, Compensation 3.7, Culture 3.2, Career 3.5.
- **Salary benchmarks** (from LinkedIn data): Account Manager ~$99,343/yr, Account Executive ~$111,985/yr, Data Engineer ~€60,000/yr.
- **Talent pool**: Frequently hires from competitors and adjacent data providers including MarineTraffic, Spire, Wood Mackenzie, S&P Global, Argus Media, and Bloomberg.

## Sources
1. [kpler.com — Careers](https://www.kpler.com/company/careers)
2. [kpler.com — About Us](https://www.kpler.com/company/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com — Kpler](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kpler)
4. [jobs.lever.co — Kpler](https://jobs.lever.co/kpler)
5. [kpler.com — Homepage](https://www.kpler.com/?r=0)

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