Price Reporter - Metals (Remote)

Company Description

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 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

Job Description

The Role

• Foster knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain, end-uses and key participants for the US ferroalloys and specialty steel market, with a particular focus on stainless, electrical and tool steels.
• Collect pricing data and be supported to set price assessments in line with the company’s methodology, price specifications and principles, and IOSCO principles
• Write market commentaries, news and insight with support from senior colleagues
• Support colleagues on their beats to build up a wider knowledge base
• Help manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data.
• Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plans
• Attend meetings and report on events and webinars alongside colleagues on behalf of the company

Principal accountabilities

• Learn how to cover commodity market fundamentals (i.e. supply chain, end-uses, key participants).
• Start collecting pricing data and learn to set prices in line with the company’s robust methodology, price specifications and IOSCO principles.
• Learn to write market commentaries, breaking news and insightful copy with PRA angles, to support the growth in readership and the use of Fastmarkets’ prices in physical and financial contracts.
• Back colleagues up on their metals pricing beats to provide cover and consistency for the market and build up a wider knowledge base.
• Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data and give news exclusives, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings, conference attendance and networking.
• Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plan, which includes producing PRA content, white papers and infographics, participating to internal and external events, posting on social media, and attending industry meetings

Principal Accountabilities

• Learn how to cover commodity market fundamentals (i.e. supply chain, end-uses, key participants).
• Start collecting pricing data and learn to set prices in line with the company’s robust methodology, price specifications and IOSCO principles.
• Learn to write market commentaries, breaking news and insightful copy with PRA angles, to support the growth in readership and the use of Fastmarkets’ prices in physical and financial contracts.
• Back colleagues up on their metals pricing beats to provide cover and consistency for the market and build up a wider knowledge base.
• Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data and give news exclusives, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings, conference attendance and networking.
• Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plan, which includes producing PRA content, white papers and infographics, participating to internal and external events, posting on social media, and attending industry meetings
  
   

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 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.
• Interest in and understanding of the American steel and ferroalloys markets – experience in the stainless sector a plus.
• An interest in and understanding of financial markets