About Marex
Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
For more information visit https://www.marex.com/
Department description
Marex Solutions' Strategy Team works at the intersection of markets, technology, and innovation. As a solutions desk, we specialize in complex derivatives strategies, partnering directly with traders and sales teams to generate actionable trade ideas and provide in-depth market analysis across all asset classes—from equities and fixed income, to commodities and crypto. Our edge comes from identifying market trends and opportunities that others overlook, then translating them into sophisticated derivative structures and comprehensive market insights that meet client needs.
Role Summary
We're looking for someone at the crossroads of technology and financial markets to leverage and apply AI tools on the trading desk. Together, we will develop tools, dashboards, infographics, and market intelligence, then ultimately generate actionable trade ideas across all asset classes. The role combines technical prowess with market intuition: a creative strategist who can code and with hands-on understanding of AI to uncover patterns and translate complex data into compelling frameworks.
Responsibilities
The Strategist will focus on applying AI and modern data tools to enhance how market intelligence is generated, visualized, and consumed across the trading floor:
- Apply AI tools on the trading desk.
- Develop tools, dashboards, infographics, and market intelligence, then ultimately generate actionable trade ideas across all asset classes
- Visual Analytics, Dashboards & Infographics
- Design and build visually compelling dashboards, interactive tools, and infographics that communicate market dynamics, positioning, volatility regimes, and thematic trends clearly to traders, sales, and clients.
- Automation & Scalable Research Tool
- Develop automated workflows, data pipelines, and AI-driven processes to streamline market monitoring, thematic analysis, and idea generation—reducing manual effort and increasing speed to insight.
- AI Tool Development
- Build and iterate AI-powered tools to surface non-obvious relationships, scenario analyses, and structural opportunities relevant to derivatives and cross-asset strategies.
- Market Context & Product Awareness
- Maintain a strong working understanding of financial markets.
- Collaboration with Trading & Sales
- Partner with traders, sales, and structuring teams to translate AI-driven insights and visual analytics into discussion frameworks.
- Innovation & Design-Led Thinking
- Continuously explore new AI capabilities, visualization techniques, and data sources, bringing a design-first, user-centric mindset to how insights are delivered on the desk.
Standard Company Responsibilities
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
- To escalate risk events immediately
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required
Competencies, Skills and Experience
Skills and Experience
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in any discipline, with clear evidence of strong analytical thinking, problem-solving ability, and transferable technical or design skills
- AI & Data Tooling
- Hands-on experience with AI and modern data tools (e.g. LLMs, embeddings, NLP, pattern recognition, or similar applied techniques)
- Ability to apply AI techniques to unstructured and semi-structured data (news, text, flows, research, alternative data)
- Programming & Automation
- Proficiency in Python (or similar), with experience building automated workflows, data pipelines, or analytical tools
- Familiarity with APIs, databases, and data ingestion processes
- Visualization & Dashboarding
- Demonstrated ability to design and build dashboards and visual analytics (e.g. Plotly, Dash, Streamlit, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)
- Strong visual judgement, attention to detail, and user-centric design mindset
- Market & Product Awareness
- Interest in and working familiarity with financial markets and derivatives across one or more asset classes
- Ability to frame outputs in a commercially relevant way for a trading or solutions desk (without requiring pricing ownership)
- Experience & Communication
- Experience in data analysis, software development, research, design, or a closely related field
- Able to clearly communicate insights and tools to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; comfortable contributing to internal and client-facing materials
Competencies:
- AI-First Problem Solving
- Applies AI and modern data tools pragmatically to real trading-desk problems, focusing on usability, speed, and insight rather than theory.
- Financial Markets Knowledge
- At least a basic understanding of financial markets and economics.
- Design & Visual Storytelling
- Strong instinct for visual clarity; able to translate complex market data into intuitive dashboards, infographics, and narratives that resonate with traders and clients.
- Technical Creativity
- Comfortable prototyping, iterating, and experimenting with new tools, models, and workflows to uncover non-obvious insights.
- Automation Mindset
- Constantly looks to replace manual, repetitive processes with scalable, automated solutions.
- Collaborative & Desk-Oriented
- Works closely with traders, sales, and structuring teams; receptive to feedback and able to adapt tools to real-world desk usage.
- Curiosity & Continuous Learning
- Actively tracks advances in AI, data visualization, and market technology, bringing fresh ideas to the desk.
Conduct Rules
You must:
- Act with integrity
- Act with due skill, care and diligence
- Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- Observe proper standard of market conduct
- Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers
Company Values
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
Integrity- Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
Collaborative- We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
Developing our People- Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
Adaptable and Nimble- Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.
Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.
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