Manager, Price Group

**Location**: London, Houston or Singapore

**Grade**: 12 (for internal purposes only)

**The Team**: This is an outstanding opportunity to join the world’s leading price reporting organization as it continues to develop its strong presence in the global commodity markets. Customers in more than 150 countries look to our expertise in news, pricing, and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to commodities markets. Market Development & Engagement Group is an integral part of the price assessment content team and collaborates across all functions within Platts globally. Focused on price assessment methodology development and deployment, the group oversees several core functions that support all pricing commodity teams including: regional leadership; methodology development, marketing reporting best practices, issues resolution, integrity and review of our MOC markets, and commodity market outreach and engagement. This role will serve as a key leader in the Price Group - methodology development function, which is responsible for the design of methodologies, and design and implementation of market reporting best practices, all aligned to deliver on our governance model based on our Editorial Standards.

**The Impact**: Drive methodology development and best practice in market reporting to augment Commodity Insights as best-in class for pricing information and data across the global commodity markets.

**This includes**:
Oversees a three-member team which collaborates across emerging/established commodity sectors in all aspects of methodology development and market reporting best practice.

Partners with commodity and regional pricing leadership and managers to drive global price assessment methodology development and ensure price assessment integrity throughout the process.

Represents Price Group in cross-functional projects and working groups and collaborates with other colleagues in Price Group, particularly Operations and the Methodology Specialists as well as other functional groups internally resulting in the consistent execution of Platts methodology and the maintenance of robust price assessments.

Leads the incolucation of market reporting best practices across their focus commodity groups through regular regional and global training sessions, as well as contributing to the “hypercare” program which includes training of front-line editorial team members, in order tomaintain rigorous standards and integrity in the Platts assessment process.

Partners with other PG leadership and commodity team management to ensure the curation of best practice documentation and training across the MRTS pricing group.

Mentors price reporting management teams and front-line editorial team members on such aspects as external messaging, by sharing experience, helping build trust with customers.

Ensures commodity reporting teams have a proper understanding of processes outlined and described in Platts governance model and aligned with the IOSCO Principles for Price Reporting Agencies and EBMR.

**Responsibilities**:
Lead a global team of 3-4 methodology development/best practices specialists who drive the end-to-end development of price assessment and benchmarks, and who ensure establishment and socialization of market reporting best practices across regions and commodity sectors

Drive all aspects of methodology development including the conceptualization of new ideas, partnering senior management and regional teams that lead day-to-day market reporting and price assessment activities across the emerging/established segment.

Collaborate and advise on all aspects for methodology development for emerging and established pricing and benchmarks.

Promote best practices and adherence of editorial standards with other functional groups such as BCQ, News, Learning and Development, and other relevant stakeholders

Work with platform managers to represent Pricing perspective in building tools and dissemination of best practices for use of tools

Support Price Group Operations and Price Group Methodology Specialists on a regional basis as necessary

Support maintenance and socialization of Best Practices Resource Page in SharePoint

Lead and maintain collateral around Practice training calls in Wiki

Advise commodity Sector heads and managers on best practices; along w/ documentation and training as needed.

Mentor frontline editors and demonstrate best practice in market reporting and implementation of methodology.

**Qualifications**:
Proven strong interpersonal and relationship building skills and ability to influence across the organization

Tenacity and the ability to gain buy-in to decisions and drive issues to completion

Subject matter expert in commodities/trading/markets and the competitive landscape and specialized knowledge of at least one commodity sector and/or Platts pricing methodology.

Degree educated (business, finance, economics, etc..) with 4+ years in pricing with a broad knowledge of