Senior Price Reporter in London

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge.

The role of Senior Price Reporter involves:

• Producing price assessments and indices and industry-leading market commentary
• Breaking news and publishing insight which demonstrates and showcases PRA-aligned knowledge across multiple markets
• Developing and supporting the adoption of Fastmarkets prices

Principal accountabilities:

• Produce exemplary price assessments and indices in line with company methodology, price specifications, and IOSCO principles across a range of markets.
• Take ownership of pricing processes, price development and all documentation under your remit.
• Peer review and approve price assessments and indices to ensure prices are representative and judgement has been exercised consistently.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive contact-base, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking.
• Deliver actionable, regular, accurate market commentary in a timely manner, as well as in-depth features, focus pieces, interviews and analysis, with minimal editing needed.
• Demonstrate depth and breadth in this content through experience and knowledge.
• Demonstrate complex and consistent use of judgement to produce representative prices in challenging and opaque markets.
• Back colleagues up on their pricing patches when necessary and peer review and editor approve their prices to ensure processes have been duly followed and editorial judgement rightly applied.
• Travel to, attend, report on and present at events and webinars, and chair panel discussions when deemed appropriate by editors on behalf of the company.
• Take responsibility for key aspects of projects to launch new prices and promote current prices.
• Be innovative and bring ideas and solutions that can support the markets we serve.
• Engage in and lead detailed, formal discussion of specifications internally and externally as part of specification reviews; take initiative by challenging processes; suggest and deliver improvements to current offering.
• Support the whole team’s editorial processes.
• Mentor and coach other reporters where requested by editors, or as opportunities arise, to share knowledge and foster growth in the team.
• Take ownership and be authoritative within your markets: organise and chair meetings internally where a collaborative approach to pricing, news, etc, would achieve better results than working independently.

Key interfaces:

• Work within a regional team to develop prices, news and market commentary.
• Reports to regional editor, team leader or regional managing editor, depending on regions and commodity sectors.
• Work with other functions when necessary while maintaining the required segregation between editorial and commercial activities; support Fastmarkets events in relevant commodity sector and partner with the strategy and market development team to support price adoption campaigns and exchange listings.

Qualifications:

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

Knowledge, experience and skills:

• We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and has a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team.
• Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
• Practical experience in PRA journalism and writing is necessary for this role.
• A high level of written and spoken English is essential.
• Knowledge of another language is helpful but not required except in certain locations.
• Strong networking skills, good confident telephone manner.
• Cross-market knowledge of a number of market beats required, with deep expertise and reach evident in at least one market.
• The skill and capacity to take part in and lead detailed specification reviews, delivering on all compliance standards.
• Team player who fosters excellent working culture and acts – both internally and externally – in a courteous and professional manner with impeccable integrity.
• General desire to expand market knowledge, be innovative and committed to joining in projects and taking part in training courses.
• Ability and confidence to present in a professional manner at industry events.
• Confidence to take ownership and provide leadership within a team working on projects.
• Excellent attention to detail, and strong organisational skills.
• Ability to take initiative to cover stories, develop price offering and to communicate this offering professionally to market participants.
• Experience working with numbers and spreadsheets and producing regular market reports and insightful editorial copy required.
• Experience speaking to an audience on panels, webinars, or delivering presentations to external parties.
• Experience delivering market consultations, or launching and developing prices ideal.