Price Reporter, Forest

Fastmarkets; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Fastmarkets is seeking a talented reporter to produce price assessments and market intelligence for the North American softwood sector. You will distill data into clear narrative, edit price reports, and deliver market commentary for multiple publications and dashboards.

The role involves remote collaboration with a global team, attending industry events, and maintaining a network of industry sources. Strong writing, editing, and deadline discipline are essential.

Qualifications

• Professional writing experience, preferably in newspapers or trade journals.
• Ability to work remotely yet collaborate with teams across the organization.
• Strong, concise writing and editing skills; 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.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.

Responsibilities

• Assess hundreds of prices weekly using our MInD database following IOSCO principles.
• Provide market commentary that adds context to reported prices.
• Produce market news and analysis for the Random Lengths reports and Fastmarkets dashboard.
• Cultivate new data sources while maintaining industry contacts.
• Edit copy and peer review price assessments for methodology compliance.
• Attend conferences and represent the business through speaking engagements.

Skills

Writing

Editing

Interviews

Data interpretation

Deadline-driven

Remote work experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

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.

Job Description

The Role

To produce price assessments and market intelligence that are critical to the North American softwood industry. To cement our standing as the most trusted source of softwood pricing information for more than 80 years. To support and develop new avenues that further imbed our data and news across the industry.

Principal Accountabilities

• Assess 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 our Random Lengths Weekly Report, Random Lengths Midweek Report, Random Lengths Lumber and Panel Report, as well as the Fastmarkets dashboard.
• 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.
• Attend industry conferences and events, represent the business through speaking engagements and industry outreach.

KEY INTERFACES

Work within an experienced team of reporters to produce softwood 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 softwood team leader.

Qualifications

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.

• Some 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.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Prior knowledge of softwood industry a plus

Additional Information

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:

* Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working.

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