Associate Price Reporter - Nonferrous Metals

The Role: The role's focus is to cover nonferrous metals and critical minerals. These include base metals, ferroalloys, and various upstream ores. Learn how metals play an important role in global economies and be at the forefront of reporting critical market trends and price developments in these markets. The role will focus on producing price assessments for these metals in Asia and can also offer opportunities to learn battery metals, one of the most exciting areas in energy transition, as well as related markets such as New Energy Vehicles.

The Impact: The key role is to gather pricing information and market intelligence, and then forming that information into price assessments and published market commentaries, news updates and in-depth analysis stories. You will also be in a thought leadership position as Platts develops benchmarks and new assessments.

The Career Opportunity: You can expand your knowledge of the Asian nonferrous metals industry by interacting on a daily basis with regional producers, consumers, traders and analysts, sharpening your verbal and written communication skills on the job.

The Team / The Business: You will work with the global metal teams in Singapore, Japan, Australia, Shanghai, London, Washington, New York and Brazil.

Your Skills: Proven analytical ability and comfortable with handling numbers. Possess exceptional energy, tenacity and ambition to excel in a fast-paced newsroom. Strong written and verbal communication, analysis, and presentation skills

Our Hiring Manager says: This role will be responsible for producing S&P Global Platts battery metals assessments, as well as contributing to a number of other regional metals assessments in one of the world's leading metals pricing services.

Responsibilities:

. Gathers commodity price information, product price assessments/indices and writes commentary

. Assess the value of prices fully in line with Platts rigorous and published methodologies

. Reports news stories affecting structural market changes which affect price assessments

. Maintain high quality, timely and real-time stream of news and pricing feed

. Work closely with news desk, managers and others to identify news stories about issues affecting market prices

. Develops, expands and maintains sources and contact relevant to the market area of coverage

. Effectively manage and develop price reporting coverage in the region

Qualifications:

. Minimum of Bachelor's degree or similar level university degree

. Excellent English writing skills, preferably with prior training in pricing, trading and/or analytics

. Experience or knowledge in battery metals will be an advantage

. Must be proficient in spoken Mandarin ability to read and write Mandarin a plus as the role will require close communication with correspondents in the China market. Proficiency in Japanese will be an added advantage.

. Good organizational planning skills able to work collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced team environment

. Adept at managing multiple tasks and adhering to regular deadlines. Able to prioritize quickly and to readjust priorities throughout the day.

. Self-driven, energetic and proactive

. Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills

. Ability to work in a team-oriented, global, multi-cultural environment

. Must be comfortable with using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint