Fastmarkets is hiring: Price Reporter - Metals (Remote) in Houston

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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

• Foster knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain, end‑uses, key participants for the US ferroalloys and specialty steel market, with a focus on stainless, electrical and tool steels.
• Collect pricing data and be supported to set price assessments in line with the company’s methodology, price specifications and principles, and IOSCO principles.
• Write market commentaries, news and insight with support from senior colleagues.
• Support colleagues on their beats to build a wider knowledge base.
• Help manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data.
• Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plans.
• Attend meetings and report on events and webinars alongside colleagues on behalf of the company.

Principal Accountabilities

• Learn how to cover commodity market fundamentals (supply chain, end‑uses, key participants).
• Start collecting pricing data and learn to set prices in line with the company's robust methodology, price specifications and IOSCO principles.
• Learn to write market commentaries, breaking news and insightful copy with PRA angles, to support growth in readership and the use of Fastmarkets’ prices in physical and financial contracts.
• Back colleagues on their metals pricing beats to provide cover and consistency for the market and build up a wider knowledge base.
• 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, conference attendance and networking.
• Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plan, including producing PRA content, white papers and infographics, participating in internal and external events, posting on social media, and attending industry meetings.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• A high level of written and spoken English.
• Interest in and understanding of the American steel and ferroalloys markets – experience in the stainless sector a plus.
• An interest in and understanding of financial markets and commodities.
• Strong networking and communication skills, and good confident telephone manner.
• Ability to work with discipline and dynamism and take initiatives to cover stories and find information out.
• Team player who fosters excellent working culture and acts, both internally and externally, in a courteous and professional manner with impeccable integrity.
• General curiosity in expanding market knowledge and commitment to join in projects and take part in training courses.
• Ability to work with numbers and spreadsheets and produce analytical editorial copy.
• People skills to answer queries about prices and particular pricing sessions.

Additional Information

Our Values

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance.
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done.
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency.
• 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.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer‑centric in all that we do.
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

• Illinois
• Massachusetts*
• New York
• Texas*

Otherwise the position will be located as shown in the advert.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
• Industry: Information Services

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