Commodity market intelligence and pricing data for metals, mining and fertilizers
CRU sells data, price assessments and forecasts on metals, mining and fertilizer markets, and its stack shows a research firm turning into a data-product company: Snowflake, dbt and Airflow pipelines on Azure with Terraform, plus LangChain, LangGraph and RAG for AI-assisted analysis. Hiring is accelerating and skews senior and data-heavy, with legal and sales roles focused on contract and compliance tightening.
CRU is a London-headquartered, privately held commodities intelligence firm founded in 1969, with 201–500 employees. It provides data, market analysis, strategy consulting and communications, including conferences, covering sectors such as base and precious metals, iron and steel, copper, wire and cables, and fertilizers and chemicals. Clients use its work on supply chains, decarbonisation and the energy transition. The company operates offices across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia and is currently hiring in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and China.
CRU uses Snowflake, dbt and Apache Airflow for data, Azure, AWS and GCP with Kubernetes and Terraform, Python data science libraries, LangChain and RAG for AI, and Salesforce with Pardot for go-to-market.
Yes. Data is the most active hiring area at CRU, alongside research, consulting, legal, ops and sales, with mostly senior and principal openings and accelerating hiring velocity.
CRU is headquartered in London and is currently hiring in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and China.
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