Price Reporter - Metals (Bilingual Spanish/English)

The Role

• Foster a deep understanding of the fundamentals, supply chains, end uses, and key market participants across metals recycling markets, including both ferrous and non-ferrous sectors.
• Collect pricing data and set price assessments in line with the company’s methodology, price specifications and principles, and IOSCO principles
• Write market commentaries, breaking news and insightful copy with price reporting angles
• 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
• Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data and give news exclusives
• Handle questions from contacts and the market about the dynamics of particular pricing sessions, seeking guidance when inquiries are sensitive
• Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plans
• Present at events and webinars, and chair panel discussions when deemed appropriate by editors on behalf of the company

We are looking for:

• A high level of written and spoken Spanish and English is necessary.
• An interest in and understanding of financial markets and commodities
• Pricing experience is helpful, but is not required
• Journalistic reporting experience is helpful, but is not required
• Strong networking and communication skills, confident telephone manner
• Team player who fosters excellent working culture and acts - both internally and externally - in a courteous and professional manner, with impeccable integrity
• Ability to work with numbers and spreadsheets and produce analytical editorial copy
• Ability to undertake business travel by plane, train or car

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.

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.

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.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets

We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.

Specific benefits may vary by country and role.

If the position is listed as remote this opportunity is available to applicants based in the following states:

• Illinois

• Oregon

• New York
• Pennsylvania

• Texas*

* Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working.

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

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.

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.