Fastmarkets is hiring: Price Reporter Remote in Texas City

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

1. Language Proficiency: Fluency in English is essential.
2. Market Knowledge: A background in metals, commodity or financial markets. Business writing experience preferred.
3. Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze data and distill complex topics.
4. Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal skills to liaise with industry contacts, respond to queries about prices and manage discrete information confidentially.
5. Values and Culture Fit: Personal accountability with a growth mindset and openness to collaboration, learning and inclusivity.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values:

1. Metrics Driven: We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance.
2. Accountable: We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done.
3. Growth Mindset: This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency.
4. Inclusive: We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
5. Customer Centric: We are customer-centric in all that we do.
6. Collaborative: We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalize on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

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’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

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.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.

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