About the Role
Marsoft is seeking a Senior Market Analyst (Rail) to build our coverage of rail freight markets. You will create the supply and demand models, forecasts, and research that shippers, operators, lenders, and investors use to make decisions about rail capacity and assets. This is a new market for us, and you will shape how we cover it.
Responsibilities
- Build supply, demand, and capacity models for rail freight, from commodity flows and volumes to network capacity and equipment fleets.
- Produce Base, High, and Low Case forecasts for volumes, rates, and asset values where data allows.
- Track the commodities, industrial activity, and policy drivers that move rail freight, and how rail competes with truck and short-sea shipping.
- Reconcile forecasts with reported traffic, rates, and transactions, and explain revisions to clients.
- Write market reports and client briefings with clear, defensible conclusions.
- Work with our product and software teams to bring rail data and analysis to clients.
- Present findings to clients and at industry events, and mentor junior analysts as the team grows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of rail, freight transportation, or logistics market analysis.
- Strong quantitative skills and experience building forecasting or econometric models.
- Comfort working in large Excel model workbooks; Python, R, or SQL preferred.
- Clear writing for professional audiences.
- Willingness to defend assumptions, and to change views when the data says so.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Transportation, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative field; a Master's degree is a plus.
Desired
- Familiarity with industry traffic data, carload reports, or rail equipment fleet data.
- Experience presenting to lenders, investors, or senior clients.