Price Reporter

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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**

The price reporter role fosters expertise in one or several metal markets and produce quality prices and news in line with the company’s PRA approach as well as working within a regional and global team to support the development and adoption of Fastmarkets' benchmark prices.

Fastmarkets, a world-leader in global metals markets, is a fast-growing company with progressive policies such as flexible working. The price reporter exemplifies the heart of Fastmarkets’ strategy as an industry-leading price provider and operates within a global network of skilled reporters and dedicated resources that offer training, ensure data integrity and enforce strict pricing procedures in line with industry compliance principles. There is scope to review, launch and promote prices and advise senior editorial members of market opportunities. Travel and engaging directly with market participants is also part of the role. For this Price Reporter role you will be pricing nickel-based products which are part of the battery raw materials suite of prices - specifically nickel sulfate and mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP).

**Principle accountabilities**
- Foster in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain, end-uses and key participants for specific markets
- Collect pricing data and set price assessments in line with the company’s methodology, price specifications and principles, and IOSCO principles
- Write market commentaries, breaking news and insightful copy with price reporting angles
- Back colleagues up on their pricing patches to provide cover and consistency for the market and build up a wider knowledge base
- Peer review prices to verify that processes have been followed and editorial judgement applied correctly to ensure our prices are representative
- Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data and give news exclusives.
- Handle questions from contacts and the market about the dynamics of particular pricing sessions, seeking guidance when inquiries are sensitive
- Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plans
- Present at events and webinars, and chair panel discussions when deemed appropriate by editors on behalf of the company

**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 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. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.

**Skills and Experience**
- A high level of written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin and English is necessary - knowledge of another language is helpful, but not essential
- An interest in and understanding of financial markets and commodities, especially nickel-based products which are part of the battery raw materials suit