Price Reporter - Chicago, United States - Fastmarkets

Description

Job Description

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 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, make 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 is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

The Role

As a Price Reporter you are in a vital, front-line position tasked with developing expertise and understanding of global agriculture markets with specific focus on either a primary geography or a main commodity. A flexible price reporting role, blending elements of journalism, numeracy and relationship skills, the price reporter is the eyes and ears of our coverage, charged with delivering breaking news, daily commentary, and pricing services and to work with the regional and international team to oversee appropriate methodology that underpin robust price reporting services.

Principle Accountabilities

• Thorough fundamental knowledge of planting cycles, supply chains, end uses, key participants and trends with a particular focus on cash markets to deliver strong, representative price assessments backed with thorough supporting content
• Collect pricing data and assess prices in line with the appropriate methodology and to a standard in line with IOSCO principles
• Write a daily market commentary reporting on significant trends, major price movements and major factors shaping today's price
• Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit or verify pricing data and provide unique cash market insights for news and analysis
• Develop connections with the industry via face-to-face industry meetings where possible, telephone or other media, always representing the Fastmarkets Agricensus brand
• Provide cover on other, related agriculture markets and ensure consistency in always assessing
• Work with management team to help foster the use of Fastmarkets prices in industry negotiations, physical contracts, and as financial settlement prices for derivative instruments
• Be the first point of contact for any editorial queries relating to our news or pricing services, escalate and alert the management team when appropriate
• Identify new opportunities to expand coverage, launch new pricing services or improve methodology
• Help foster Fastmarkets prices and expertise through the team's engagement priorities, which includes producing PRA content, deeper analysis of trends, participating in internal and external events, promoting the company on social media, and attending industry meetings
• Attend appropriate internal training courses.

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.

• A high level of written and spoken English is essential. Knowledge of other languages also helpful
• Strong grasp of economic fundamentals, understanding of agricultural cycles and interest in financial and commodity markets
• Exceptional networking and communication skills and good, confident telephone manner
• Ability to work with discipline and dynamism, taking initiative to cover stories and root out information
• Team player who fosters an excellent working culture and acts, internally and externally, in a professional manner with integrity
• Ability to work with numbers and spreadsheets as well as handling large volumes of data to produce analytical editorial copy
• Ability to spot market moving news, layout and structure basic news articles and support wider collaborative pieces.

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.

This opportunity is available to applicants based in the following states:

• Florida

• Georgia

• Illinois

• Massachusetts*

• North Carolina

• New Hampshire*

• New Jersey*

• New York*

• Oregon*

• Pennsylvania

• Tennessee*

• Texas

• California

• Colorado
* Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working

You can see that on a map here: US Hiring States

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.