Associate Editor, Agriculture
The Role: Associate Editor is a price reporter who conducts price discovery in, makes price assessments for, and writes news and analysis about the Asian rice market.
The rice team assesses prices for and reports on all the major Asian origin markets, including Thailand, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar.
The rice team contains price reporters in London and Gurgaon who work closely together to produce daily, weekly and monthly publications.
Excellent career growth potential within the Agriculture team, which works across the grains, oilseeds, biofuels, rice and sugar space. Opportunities to learn more about other aspects of the business, including technology and editing. Opportunities to travel domestically and internationally for industry events and conferences several times a year, where you may have the chance to represent S&P Global Commodity Insights as a speaker. You will also have the chance to represent CI in face-to-face meetings, in webinars, podcasts, or other interviews.
You will assist in identifying, developing, and executing assessment opportunities to drive growth in the Asian rice market.
The Team: You will be joining a dynamic, people-first team that prizes effective collaboration and strong inter-team relationships. We value team members who are kind, have a good sense of humour, are willing to help out their colleagues, and are keen to learn. We believe strongly in diversity, equity and inclusion and are committed to making all feel welcome and valued.
The Business: S&P Global CI is the world’s leading price reporting agency (PRA) and a premier source of commodities intelligence. It provides the market with numerous benchmark price assessments that are used in commodity contracts across the world. The content you generate and the relationships you build are essential to the energy, agricultural, metals and petrochemicals markets.
Day timings: Covering the rice market would involve starting work at 11am, and finishing the day at 8pm.
Responsibilities: The Associate Editor is responsible for every aspect of price reporting. This includes talking to market participants from all over the world in a highly international-facing role to collect market and pricing information. They must research and write news articles and analysis on major market events. They must publish price assessments and commentary about the market and contribute to methodology development.
Qualifications:
BA degree or higher
Two to five years’ reporting/writing/analytical/editorial experience.
Awareness of global commodity markets and economic principles
Strong numeracy skills including ability to understand the basic principles of statistics and to apply basic maths functions in Excel
Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with a wide range of role types and personalities, internally and externally
Self-starter mindset with effective problem-solving skills
Ability to perform well to tight deadlines
Excellent English writing skills
Culturally and socially sensitive
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience or knowledge of agriculture sector, particularly rice
Fluency in relevant international languages (such as written Urdu, Thai, Burmese, Mandarin Chinese)