Price Reporter – Agriculture

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Fastmarkets

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1882

🌾 Agriculture

Agriculture • Metals and mining • Consulting

Fastmarkets is a leading cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) operating within the agriculture, forest products, and metals and mining markets. They provide comprehensive insights, price data, and market analysis, empowering clients to trade effectively and make informed decisions. Fastmarkets also offers a platform for risk management, consulting, and forecasting to help customers navigate the complexities of commodity trading.

📋 Description

• Produce exemplary price assessments and indices in line with company methodology, price specifications, and IOSCO principles across a range of markets • Peer review and approve price assessments and indices in order 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 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 correctly 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. • 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: organize and chair meetings internally where a collaborative approach to pricing, news, etc, would achieve better results than working independently

🎯 Requirements

• A high level of written and spoken English is necessary • Knowledge of other languages such as Ukrainian, Russian or other European language is helpful, but not essential • An interest in and understanding of financial markets and commodities, grains and/or agriculture market experience preferred • Pricing experience is helpful, but is not required • Journalistic reporting experience is helpful, but is not required • Strong networking and communication skills, confident telephone manner • Team player who fosters excellent working culture and acts - both internally and externally - in a courteous and professional manner, with impeccable integrity • Ability to work with numbers and spreadsheets and produce analytical editorial copy • Ability to undertake business travel by plane, train or car • Candidates will need to pass an in-house writing test.

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development • Remote work options