Senior Market Reporter, EMEA Metals Pricing

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 European steel supply chain. Customers in over 150 countries look to our expertise in pricing, news and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. The EMEA metals pricing team is a dynamic and expanding team responsible for key pricing benchmarks across the region.

The Role: The role is offered as Editor or Senior Editor, depending on experience.

The Impact: We are seeking a senior price reporter with metals market experience, able to drive our ferrous pricing coverage in Europe. The successful candidate will be part of a global team and possess knowledge of market intelligence-gathering activities and assessing prices, applying Platts 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 and will support less experienced colleagues in building expertise; 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 ferrous commodity space, including decarbonization of steel.
Decarbonization and energy transition are key focus areas for our company, so success in this role will be noted by corporate decision-makers.
Assist in identifying, developing and executing assessment opportunities to drive growth in the metals markets.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibility will be reporting on daily trading activity in the EMEA 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 Americas 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.
Additional responsibilities will include mentoring and training team members, 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.
The candidate will also be expected to present at conferences, conduct webinars and podcasts or external media interviews -- further establishing Commodity Insights as a leading presence in the metals commodity space.

Basic Qualifications

What We’re Looking For:

Bachelor’s degree; journalism, economics or business preferred
Minimum of two years reporting/writing/analytical or editorial experience
Strong numeracy skills including ability to understand the basic principles of algebra and 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience of physical metal markets
Multi-lingual skills an advantage