Price Reporter - Forest Products

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 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.

Job Description

The RoleFoster in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain, end-uses and key participants for specific markets to generate representative prices and world-class content

Collect pricing data and set prices in line with the company's robust methodology, price specifications and IOSCO principles

Back colleagues up on their pricing patches to provide cover and consistency for the market and build up a wider knowledge base

Peer review prices to verify that processes have been followed and editorial judgement applied correctly to ensure our prices are representative

Write market commentaries, breaking news and insightful copy with PRA angles, to support the growth in readership and the use of Fastmarkets' prices in physical and financial contracts.

Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data and give news exclusives, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking

Handle questions from contacts and the market about the dynamics of particular pricing sessions, seeking guidance from senior reporters or section editor when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market

Assist the section editor to review and manage the existing pipeline of prices and identify new pric