Senior Price Reporter

**Company 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.
**Job Description** The Role**

The role of Senior Price Reporter involves:

- Producing price assessments and indices and industry-leading market commentary
- Breaking news and publishing insight which demonstrates and showcases PRA-aligned knowledge across multiple markets
- Developing and supporting the adoption 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. Take ownership of pricing processes, price development and all documentation under your remit.
- 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, interviews 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 rightly 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. Be innovative and bring ideas and solutions that can support the markets we serve. 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 a regional team to develop prices, news and market commentary.
- Reports to regional editor, team leader or regional managing editor, depending on regions and commodity sectors.
- Work with other functions when necessary while maintaining the required segregation between editorial and commercial activities; support Fastmarkets events in relevant commodity sector and partner with the strategy and market development team to support price adoption campaigns and exchange listings.

**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 empl