Price Reporter

Company: Euromoney Institutional Investor
Location: Eugene
Posted on: June 21, 2022

Job Description:

Fastmarkets is seeking a price reporter to cover North American wood products markets, reporting lumber and panel prices, writing industry news, and analyzing key market trends for an industry-leading price reporting agency (PRA).About EuromoneyEuromoney 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 organizations 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 2,000 employees. The Group has more than 20 offices around the world with headquarters in London and additional main offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.About FastmarketsFastmarkets (www.fastmarkets.com) is a high-growth organization with a clear purpose. We are fueled 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 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.Job purposeTo produce price assessments and market intelligence that are critical to the North American wood products industry. To cement our standing as the most trusted source of wood products information for more than 75 years. To support and develop new avenues that further imbed our data and news across the industry.Principal ResponsibilitiesAssess hundreds of prices each week using our proprietary MInD database while adhering to our published methodologies and IOSCO principles. Provide indispensable market commentary that provides context to the prices reported each week.Produce market news and analysis for both our Random Lengths weekly publication and online news sites.Cultivate new sources for market data while maintaining our vast network of industry contacts.Edit copy and peer review price assessments to ensure compliance with our published methodologies.Key InterfacesWork within an experienced team of editors on a largely remote basis to produce several weekly, bimonthly, and monthly publications. More broadly collaborate with colleagues in other parts of the Forest Products business, including analysts and economists. Work with marketing and events teams to expand the reach of our price data and market reporting. Reports to managing editor.Desired Skills/ExperienceAt least three years of professional writing experience, preferably in newspapers or other trade journals.Ability to be self-motivated in a remote-work environment while also working collaboratively with teams across the organization.Strong, concise writing and editing skills; ability to write authoritatively and to the point.Comfort with numbers, statistics, and data-driven prose.Strong interviewing skills and phone, email etiquette.Ability to meet multiple weekly and daily deadlines.

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