Price Reporter (hybrid)

Company Description

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.

We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

Job Description

The Role

Nonwovens Markets is the leading source of pricing and news for the global nonwovens industry. Nonwovens are a family of technical fabrics used to make diapers, wet wipes, surgical gowns, house wrap, automotive interiors and many other consumer and industrial products.

The Tissue Market is one of the most important paper grades covered by Fastmarkets that consume a large amount of virgin pulp and recovered paper across the globe. It is a fast-changing industry with relations that go beyond B2B and also reach final end users in the chain. There are several investments taking place all the time in this industry, from small machines to large operations.

The price reporter is responsible for reporting prices and writing industry news and market reviews, engaging with sources at events, meetings and creating strong relationships with market participants.

Principal Accountabilities

• Responsible for price, news, stories and overall reporting of Fastmarkets Nonwovens Markets Service. Back up team in other parts of the world when necessary.
• Responsible for price, news, stories and overall reporting for Tissue Markets in Fastmarkets.
• Write market stories as needed to explain pricing developments, as well as cover other relevant industry topics, including those that affect the markets.
• Write monthly Price Watch letter summarizing latest trends in market pricing.
• Write and update Nonwovens Company Profiles articles and capacity database.
• Work as needed on online news relevant to the industry for the website.
• Travel and attend conferences and visit facilities as needed and related to the industry that are important to the company and to the markets covered.
• Continually develop sources and contacts important for understanding market pricing and market news. Develop and maintain relationships with industry associations and other key stakeholders.
• Work as a back up for the pulp and paper coverage in Latin America when needed, interacting with other team members, peer reviewing prices and assisting during specific periods of time.
  
  

We are a diverse and inclusive company, here you don’t need to be afraid to be who you are and will find a very friendly working atmosphere.

Our working scheme is very flexible but with a hybrid approach. You will be expected to be at our office in Avenida Paulista at least two times per week and go to in person meetings when necessary to meet your sources and engage with the market.

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

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Experience of four to six years in price reporting and/or journalism.
• Ability to develop high-quality coverage.
• Strong news writing and interviewing skills, ability to analyze complex, fast-changing market and business conditions and work with statistics.
• Ability to gain high-level working understanding of key industry technologies and technical terms and understand importance of technologies to producers and their customers.
• Ability to gather market intelligence and develop networks of industry contacts.
• Ability to maintain relationships with senior corporate and association executives in global industry.
• Achieve a high level of accuracy while meeting multiple deadlines.
• Good communication skills and ability to work within a team environment on multiple projects.
• Fluent English is mandatory for this role as all stories and reports are written in the language. We encourage you to apply even if you had no previous experience with working in an international media outlet as the company provides training and support for your learning journey.
• Knowledge of Spanish is a plus as this role will require a lot of interaction with industries in Latin America.
  
  

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

Additional Information

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.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• 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.
  
  

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.