Associate Editor, Fertecon

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09
**Job Description**:
**The Role**: The Associate Editor, Fertecon, is a market reporter who drives market coverage relating to prices, news and analysis about both the APAC and international fertilizer and raw material markets, as part of the global Fertecon team.
In addition to publishing price assessments and commentary about the market they will contribute to methodology development as well as research and write news articles and analysis on major market events.

**The Career Opportunity**: Excellent career growth potential within the Fertecon and broader Agriculture team which alongside fertilizers also spans the grains, oilseeds, vegoils, biofuels, rice, and sugar space.
Representing the company at industry events and conferences, as well as in face-to-face meetings, webinars, and podcasts. You will assist in identifying, developing, and executing on opportunities to drive growth in areas relating to the international fertilizers market.
You will also have opportunities to learn more about other aspects of the business, including technology and editing.

**The Team**: You will be joining a dynamic, people-first team that prizes effective collaboration and strong inter-team relationships with colleagues based in Singapore, UK, Brazil and US. We believe strongly in diversity, equity and inclusion and are committed to making all feel welcome and valued.

**The Business**: S&P Global Commodity Insights is the world’s leading price reporting agency (PRA) and a premier source of commodities intelligence. We provide the market with benchmark price assessments that are used in both physical commodity contracts and exchange-listed derivative contracts across the world.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Driving market coverage, reporting on daily physical trading activity as well as bids, offers and other relevant market information
- Identifying opportunities to refine assessment methodology and help launch new price assessments
- Contributing to/producing reports on time and to the required standard.
- Attending industry events as well as face to face meetings to help drive market adoption, developing contacts, acquiring information and promoting the S&P Global Commodity Insights brand
- Building and managing a database of contacts
- Creating news stories and multi-media coverage
- Supporting the pricing team across different regions where required due to absences etc
- Collaborating with teams in other markets sectors or divisions, i.e., Analytics

**Your Skills**:

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact with a wide range of role types and personalities, internally and externally
- Self-starter mindset with effective problem-solving skills
- Superior organizational skills including time management; the ability to plan and deliver weekly products and to meet deadlines
- Knowledge of the agriculture sector or commodity markets generally an advantage
- Excellent writing skills to produce articulate and reliable reports
- Awareness of economic principles an advantage
- Well-honed secondary research and analytical skills with the ability to uncover unique insights
- Culturally and socially sensitive

**Qualifications**:

- BA degree or higher
- Strong command of written and spoken English
- Proficiency in relevant Asian languages an advantage

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.

What’s In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances