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The Role: Market Reporter for Asia Container Freight Markets is a reporter who takes responsibility for day-to-day reporting on the container freight markets in the Western hemisphere, in particular for routes from Asia to Europe. The Reporter in this position is responsible for every aspect of market reporting, including the collection and publication of primary market information, running an assessment process, assessing the value of a variety of freight markets, engaging with market sources, reporting market-related news, writing commentary and analysis, and contributing to methodology development.
The Impact: You will provide critical information, news and analysis to our subscribers.
The Career Opportunity: Excellent career growth potential within the team, and a great opportunity to hone and develop business skills.
The Business: At S&P Global Platts, the premier source of commodities intelligence, the content you generate and the relationships you build are essential to the energy, petrochemicals, shipping, metals and agricultural markets.
Accountabilities:
Assess Asia Container Market Assessments – Assessing the value of a defined set of freight rates in container markets with sharp accuracy on a daily basis
Deliver High-Quality Market Commentaries – Responsible for writing market commentaries associated with the container freight assessments to make readers understand what is happening in the market and the rationale behind the movement in freight rates
Write Timely Market News – Reporting news and analysis relating to and impacting container markets with a cross-commodity focus, to help readers understand what is happening in the market place, including news about supply/demand developments, government data, new developments in regulations and analysis of price trends, and other relevant topics.
Frequent Market Engagement with Industry – The market reporter is responsible for engaging with market sources around the region. They are expected to find and nurture new market sources; maintain a good relationship with existing sources; develop the Platts Container methodology through regular market engagement.
Work with a Global Team: The right candidate for this role will be a curious, independent and enthusiastic team player with a keen interest for market reporting in a dynamic environment where market-moving changes occur every day. Platts is a well-regarded source of expertise in the commodity markets. Our price assessments are used to settle billions of dollars’ worth of contracts every day. We foster a collaborative team environment that encourages working together, both with other teams in the region, and globally.
What we’re looking for:
• Bachelor’s Degree required; economics, journalism, finance, or business-related fields preferred.
• Three years of experience in price reporting, journalism, or analytics preferred.
• Drive to develop knowledge of global container freight and supply chains. Understanding of market fundamentals is necessary, in order to develop subject matter expertise.
• Accuracy under time pressure. It is critical that we deliver timely and high-quality assessments to the market.
• Excellent communicator.
• Comfortable with public speaking and presenting.
• Proven real time news abilities – this position will be writing news and analysis on a real time basis.
• Strong mathematical and writing skills.
• Ability to perform well both individually and as part of the team.
• Secondary languages a definite plus.
Location : Gurgaon
Grade: 9A (For internal purposes only)
S&P Global Commodity Insights enables organizations to create long-term, sustainable value with data and insights for a complete view on the global energy and commodities markets.
Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
20 – Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), EDTGRP202.1 – Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 272084
Posted On: 2022-04-19
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
