Senior Market Reporter, Americas Metals

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

The Impact: We are seeking a senior price reporter with metals market experience, able to drive our pricing coverage in the Americas. The successful candidate will be part of a global team and possess knowledge of market intelligence-gathering activities and assessing prices, applying Commodity Insights methodology. This individual must be comfortable writing about pricing information and interpreting data. The candidate will be considered a subject matter expert in the metals industry; being a team player is of utmost importance in this role.

What’s In It For You

Opportunities to represent Commodity Insights at industry events, face-to-face meetings, presenting at conferences, webinars, podcasts or other interviews and to further develop Commodity Insights as a significant presence in the battery raw material commodity space
Energy transition metals and critical raw materials are key areas of focus for our company, so success in this role will be noted by key corporate decision-makers
Assist in identifying, developing and executing assessment opportunities to drive growth in the metals market.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibility will be reporting on daily trading activity in Americas non-ferrous markets. This will include sharing pricing information in real time, producing analysis of market pricing and trends during the course of coverage and assessing markets based on physical bids, offers and traded information in line with our published methodologies.
Writing copy, producing graphics and publishing data explaining the trends driving prices and the reasons why we have assessed the price where we have is a part of the daily process. Our metals teams in Asia, Europe and the US are in frequent contact throughout each business day, as the regional markets are influenced and impacted by trading activity and price levels in other regions.
Secondary responsibilities will include mentoring and training team members, managing and building our database of contacts, identifying opportunities to improve our methodology or launch new assessments and representing Commodity Insights at industry events such as conferences or in face-to-face meetings -- further establishing Commodity Insights as a leading presence in the metals commodity space
The candidate also will have opportunities to present at conferences, conduct webinars and podcasts or external media interviews.
The candidate may be called on to assist with creating or editing content for other Commodity Insights metals publications, as well.

What We’re Looking For

BA degree; journalism, economics or business preferred
Minimum of 2 years reporting/writing/analytical or editorial experience
Strong numeracy skills including ability to understand the basic principles of statistics as well as ability 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
Fluent in English
Excellent English writing skills
Spanish/Portuguese skills would be a plus
Experience of physical metal markets

Grade/Level (relevant for internal applicants only): 10

The Location: Houston, TX

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only)

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $59,800 to $118,900. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location.