Senior Price Reporter

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. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

The Role

Fastmarkets is seeking a Senior Price Reporter to join its Americas metals team, based in the United States. This individual will be responsible for developing and promoting prices, news and market commentary for the North American metals industry. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with cross-regional and cross-functional teams and be part of key projects focused on sustainability. This role will report directly to an Americas editor.

Key Responsibilities

• Price Discovery and Analysis. Demonstrate consistent use of judgement to produce representative prices in challenging and opaque markets, peer review and approve prices to ensure processes have been duly followed and editorial judgement rightly applied, and back up colleagues on pricing patches when necessary. Showcase a deep understanding of compliance and methodology.
• News and Thought Leadership. Break news and publish industry-leading articles that demonstrate PRA-aligned knowledge across multiple markets, with minimal editing needed. Demonstrate depth and breadth in this content through experience and knowledge.
• Market Engagement. Develop and support the adoption and evolution of Fastmarkets prices via regular market engagement and identification of opportunities and threats. Lead formal discussions of specifications internally and externally, take initiative by challenging processes and suggest improvements to current offerings. Take responsibility for key aspects of projects to launch new prices and promote current prices.
• Networking. Maintain a comprehensive contact base, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking.
• Presenting. Seek out opportunities to speak at events and during webinars, and moderate panel discussions.  
• Mentoring. Coach other reporters as requested by editors, or as opportunities arise, to share knowledge and foster growth in the team.
• Representation. Exhibit positivity about changes and encourage adaptability and open-mindedness. Behave professionally, respectfully and with integrity in line with our company values. Use time effectively and efficiently. 

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 have 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.

• Language Proficiency. Fluency in English is essential. Spanish is helpful.
• Market Knowledge. A background in metals, commodities or financial markets, coupled with a strong network of sources.
• Analytical Skills. Expertise in data analysis, including proficiency with numbers and spreadsheets and the ability to distill complex topics.
• Communication Skills. Strong interpersonal skills to liaise with industry contacts, respond to queries about prices and manage discrete information confidentially.
• Values and Culture Fit. Personal accountability with a growth mindset and openness to collaboration, learning and inclusivity. 

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It's this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance
  
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
  
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
  
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
  
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
  
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

If the position is listed as remote this opportunity is available to applicants based in the following states:

•    Illinois

•    Massachusetts*

•    New York

•    Texas*

* Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working.

Otherwise the position will be located as shown in the advert.

You've read a little about us – now it's over to you

If you like what you've read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it's time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it's used to determine whether or not you'll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we'll ask you on the day.

It's vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you're great.