Reporter - Biofuels Job at Dow Jones & Company, Inc. in Houston

Overview

About the Role: As Reporter - Biofuels, you will collect and analyze trade information to assess a daily pricing index for the North American renewable fuels feedstocks spot markets. You will report on biofuels feedstocks trading and fundamentals and create alerts relevant to the industry. Additionally, you will be trained to cover multiple products such as ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel and other editorial tasks. You will report to the Renewable Fuels Director.

About the Team

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products. Navigating world fuel markets is complex — OPIS makes it simpler.

You Will

• Be trained to cover the North American feedstocks markets
• Gather spot market price transactions and market intel from industry participants by email, instant messaging and by phone
• Verify the legitimacy of the transactions and adhere to OPIS pricing methodology when assessing daily benchmarked and non-benchmarked prices
• Create breaking and feature news alerts relevant to the North American feedstocks markets
• Contribute to social media content, blog postings, industry analysis, and publish OPIS reports
• Understand and promote the OPIS Biofuels suite of products offered
• Help support upgrades to current OPIS publications and new project ideas
• Attend or host industry events and conferences
• Meet and network with current sources and resources, and develop new sources in the North American biofuels feedstocks industry
• Uphold, follow and adhere to OPIS compliance policy, code of ethics and methodologies

You Have

• At least 8 years' journalism, price assessing, and/or active business experience in the biofuels industry or energy/commodity markets
• Experience with energy market data analysis, pricing and reporting
• Developed news and content creation strategies
• Generated story ideas, including exclusive content
• A solid grasp of math fundamentals and spreadsheet formulas
• Pricing methodology creation experience
• Translated technical materials into content that engages and instructs readers

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
• Education Benefits
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Commuter Transit Program
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

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Business Area: Dow Jones - OPIS

Job Category: Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status: Non-Union role

Pay Range: $100,000 - $125,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

Req ID: 49092