Oilseeds Price Specialist

**The Team**: This is an outstanding opportunity to join the world’s leading price reporting organization as it strengthens and grows its presence across agriculture markets. Customers in over 150 countries look to our expertise in pricing, news, and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. The Asia-Pacific agriculture pricing team is a dynamic and expanding team responsible for key pricing benchmarks across the region.

**The Impact**: We are seeking a price specialist with oilseeds market experience, able to build and drive our market coverage in Asia Pacific, with the primary focus on China. This is an exciting opportunity to build and drive S&P Global Platts assessments from inception through to adoption as price benchmarks.

**What’s in it for you**:
Opportunities to represent Platts at industry events, face-to-face meetings, presenting at conferences, webinars, podcasts or other interviews and to develop Platts as a significant presence in the Agriculture commodity space
Assist in identifying, developing and executing assessment opportunities to drive growth
Frequent travelling, including global offices

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting on daily trading activity on physical bids, offers and traded information
Identifying opportunities to refine methodology and help develop price assessments
Building and managing our database of contacts
Writing a daily commentary and assessment rationale explaining the trends driving prices
Building and maintaining transactions databases as well as daily crush and spread analysis
Creating news stories and multi-media coverage
Representing Platts at industry events as well as in face-to-face meetings with market participants in order to drive market adoption
Supporting the biofuels and sugar analysis team

**What We’re Looking For**:
Basic Qualifications
Two to five years’ experience of global agricultural commodity markets - accompanying awareness of exchange traded derivatives preferred
Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with a wide range of role types and personalities, internally and externally
Clear, concise English writing skills - prior experience or training in journalism preferred
Native Mandarin speaker is required, due to the need to cover China’s market
Detail oriented with a critical degree of accuracy regarding data entry and analysis
High intellectual curiosity and effective problem-solving skills
Entrepreneurial and self-starter mindset

Preferred Qualifications
A solid understanding of economics principles and commodities markets fundamentals
Ability to multitask and work under tight deadlines
Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Finance or Business
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- Equal Opportunity Employer
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**Job ID**: 288594

**Posted On**: 2023-06-27

**Location**: Penang-Jalan, Pulau Pinang (Penang), Malaysia