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About Euromoney
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (www.euromoneyplc.com) is a global business-to-business information services business. We provide price discovery, essential market intelligence and events. Our strategy is to be embedded in clients’ critical workflow. We manage a portfolio of businesses in markets where information, data and convening market participants are valued. We serve markets which are semi-opaque, that is, where information which organisations need to operate effectively is hard to find.
The Group is comprised of three key businesses: Fastmarkets, Financial & Professional Services and Asset Management. In 2019 Euromoney generated revenues of just over £400m, with a market cap of over £1bn and around 2000 employees. The Group has over 20 offices around the world with headquarters in London and additional main offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai.

About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is a high-growth organisation with a clear purpose. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the Agriculture, Forest Products, Metals & Mining, 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, are creating an 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.

JOB PURPOSE
To produce price assessments and industry-leading market commentary, breaking news, and analysis on steelmaking raw materials, with a key focus on iron ore, to demonstrate PRA-aligned knowledge across multiple markets. To support the development and use of Fastmarkets’ prices.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Produce exemplary price assessments in line with company methodology, price specifications, and IOSCO principles across a range of markets
• Peer review and approve price assessments and indexes to ensure prices are representative and judgement has been exercised consistently
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive contact-base, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking
• Deliver actionable, accurate market commentary in a timely manner, as well as in-depth features, focus pieces and analysis, with minimal editing needed. Demonstrate an increasing depth and breadth in this content through experience and knowledge
• Demonstrate complex and consistent use of judgement to produce representative prices in challenging and opaque markets
• Back colleagues up on their pricing patches when necessary and peer review and editor approve their prices to ensure processes have been duly followed and editorial judgement rightly applied
• Present at events and webinars, and chair panel discussions when deemed appropriate by editors on behalf of the company
• Take responsibility for key aspects of projects to launch new prices and promote current prices. Engage in and lead detailed, formal discussion of specifications internally and externally as part of specification reviews; take initiative by challenging processes; suggest improvements to current offering
• Mentor and coach other reporters were requested by editors, or as opportunities arise, to share knowledge and foster growth in the team
• Take ownership and be authoritative within your markets: organize and chair meetings internally where a collaborative approach to pricing, news, etc, would achieve better results than working independently.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• A high level of written and spoken English is essential. Knowledge of another language is helpful but not required
• Cross-market knowledge of several market beats required, with expertise evident in at least one market
• The skill and capacity to take part in detailed specification reviews
• Team player who fosters excellent working culture and acts - both internally and externally - in a courteous and professional manner with impeccable integrity
• General desire to expand market knowledge and commitment to join in projects and take part in training courses
• Ability and confidence to present in a professional manner at industry events
• Confidence to take ownership and provide leadership within a team working on projects
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to take initiative to cover stories, develop price offering and to communicate this offering professionally to market participants
• Strong networking skills and a good confident telephone manner. It needs discipline and dynamism.

EXPERIENCE

• Practical experience in business or specialist journalism and writing is necessary for this role, ideally in a price reporting capacity
• Experience in working with numbers and spreadsheets and producing analytical editorial copy required
• An interest in and understanding of financial markets or commodities is needed.
• Full training in specific market factors will be provided over a period of one month after which the senior reporter should be able to discover and assess prices competently and accurately in line with company standards.

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

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.