Senior Price Reporter - London, United Kingdom - Delinian

Delinian

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff.

We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference.

We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets.

Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets.

Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.

We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world.

We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future - together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company.

It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

About the role
Fastmarkets is looking for a London-based senior price reporter to assess benchmark prices across the base metals sector.

It's an exciting time in the global non-ferrous industry as decarbonisation drives changes in production, supply chains and trade flows, making the content and pricing data we provide more essential than ever.

The senior price reporter role involves working within a global team to publish proprietary market data and a broad range of content, from breaking news to in-depth analysis.

Fastmarkets, a world-leader in global metals markets, is a fast-growing company with progressive policies such as flexible working.

Job purpose
To produce price assessments and industry-leading market commentary, breaking news and analysis, which demonstrates PRA-aligned knowledge across multiple markets.
To support the development 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
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 contactbase, using all means of communication including facetoface meetings and networking
Deliver actionable, regular, accurate market commentary in a timely manner, as well as indepth features, focus pieces and analysis, with mínimal 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

Key interfaces

Work within the global team to develop prices, news and market commentary.
Reports to regional editor

About you
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