Associate Editor, Biofuels

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09
S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.

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.

**The Role**: Associate Editor, Biofuels & Feedstocks

**The Location**: Penang, Malaysia

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

**The Impact**: We are seeking a price specialist who can help drive our biofuel assessments and market coverage across the Asia-Pacific region. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to S&P Global Commodity Insights Biofuel and Feedstock pricing team through leading coverage of a developing market and growing industry.

**What’s in it for you**:
Opportunities to represent S&P Global Commodity Insights at industry events, face-to-face meetings, presenting at conferences, webinars and podcasts to further develop S&P Global as a significant presence in the biofuels space
Assist in identifying, developing, and executing new price assessment opportunities across the biofuel markets.

**Responsibilities**:
Leading market coverage on biofuels from Penang, Malaysia reporting on daily physical trade activity including bids, offers and other relevant information
Building and managing our database of contacts, seek potential new sources to contribute to our assessment process and developing a close business relationship with market participants
Identifying opportunities to refine methodology and help launch new price assessments
Writing daily and weekly commentaries and daily assessment rationale explaining the trends driving prices
Providing support on other biofuels and feedstocks markets as may be required
Creating news stories and multi-media coverage
Representing S&P Global Commodity Insights at industry events as well as in face-to-face meetings with market participants to drive market adoption
Work closely with relevant units across the organization such as commercial, analytics and news.

**What We’re Looking For**:
**Basic Qualifications**:
Experience of biofuels and feedstocks markets or comparable agriculture markets, accompanying awareness of exchange traded derivatives a benefit
Strong communication skills that demonstrate good listening, clear writing style, and strong verbal skills. The ability to communicate across a wide range of groups and personalities internally and externally.
Fluent in English
Excellent English writing skills
Entrepreneurial and self-starter mindset with effective problem-solving skills
An ability to multitask and prioritize under tight deadlines.

**Preferred Qualifications**:
A solid understanding of economics and commodities markets fundamentals.
Existing network of contacts in the industry preferred
Existing network of contacts in the industry is a benefit
Additional language skills such as mandarin would be an advantage.
Degree in Agronomics, Engineering, Economics, Finance, Business, International Relations or similar
Experience in price reporting or market reporting is a benefit

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

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