Company Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Job Description
The Role
Fastmarkets is seeking a Price Reporter to join its Americas metals team, based in the United States. This individual will be responsible for developing and promoting prices, news and commentary for the US aluminum market. In this role, this person will have the opportunity to work with cross-regional and cross-functional teams and be part of key projects focused on sustainability. This role will report directly to the Americas base metals editor and is fully remote.
Key Responsibilities
- Price Discovery and Analysis. Report on commodity market fundamentals, including price drivers, key end markets and main industry participants. Uphold methodology and compliance processes, and back up colleagues on their metals prices to build up a wider knowledge base.
- Value-added reporting. Break news and publish exclusive market commentary that demonstrates PRA-aligned insights and adds value for readers. Help produce Marketing content including white papers, landing pages and social media posts.
- Market Engagement. Manage industry contacts that submit pricing data and network and attend conferences to expand source list. Learn to present and moderate at events. Support external engagement meetings to promote and develop prices.
- Representation. Adapt to new ways of working. Behave professionally, respectfully and with integrity in line with our company values. Use time effectively and efficiently by prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.
Additional Information
This opportunity is available to applicants based in the following states:
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Massachusetts*
• North Carolina
• New Hampshire*
• New Jersey*
• New York*
• Oregon*
• Pennsylvania
• Tennessee*
• Texas
• California
• Colorado
* Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working
You can see that on a map here: US Hiring States
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If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
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