Associate Editor, Agriculture

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09

**The Team**: This is an outstanding opportunity to join the world’s leading price reporting organization as it strengthens and grows its presence across agriculture markets. Customers in over 150 countries look to our expertise in pricing, news, and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. The Asia-Pacific agriculture pricing team is a dynamic and expanding team responsible for key pricing benchmarks across the region.

**The Impact**: We are seeking someone passionate about the Agriculture space and experience in this sector is a bonus. The person will expand our market coverage in Asia, with the primary focus on animal protein industry or the feed complex. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team and drive S&P Global Platts assessments adoption as price benchmarks.

**What’s in it for you**:
Opportunities to represent Platts at industry events, face-to-face meetings, presenting at conferences, webinars, podcasts or other interviews and to further develop Platts as a significant presence in the Agriculture commodity space
Assist in identifying, developing and executing assessment opportunities to drive growth in the Agriculture markets

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting on daily physical trading activity as well as bids, offers and other relevant information
Identifying opportunities to refine methodology and help develop price assessments
Building and managing our database of contacts
Writing a daily commentary and assessment rationale explaining the trends driving prices
Building and maintaining transactions databases
Creating news stories and multi-media coverage in collaboration with colleagues in India
Representing Platts at industry events as well as in face-to-face meetings with market participants in order to drive market adoption
Collaborating with the Agriculture Analytics team

**What We’re Looking For**:Basic Qualifications**:
High intellectual curiosity and effective problem-solving skills
One to three years’ experience of global agricultural commodity markets. Feed complex experience preferred: Protein, Soybeans, and/or Corn
Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with a wide range of role types and personalities, internally and externally
Other language skills are a plus
Detail oriented with a critical degree of accuracy regarding data entry and analysis

**Preferred Qualifications**:
Able to communicate ideas clearly and keen to learn
A solid understanding of economics principles and commodities markets fundamentals
Ability to multitask and work under tight deadlines

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

What’s In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
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Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

**Benefits**:
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