Associate Editor

Associate Editor

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**:
09 **The Team**:
This is an outstanding opportunity to join the world's leading price reporting organization as it strengthens and grows its presence across the global Agriculture & Food markets. Customers in over 150 countries look to our expertise in pricing, analytics and news to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. Platts Agriculture & Food pricing is a global team responsible for key pricing benchmarks across the world covering markets such as Grains, Oilseeds, Animal Feed, Proteins, and more.

**Responsibilities and Impact**:
This is an exciting opportunity to help drive S&P Global Commodity Insights Agriculture & Food price assessments across the APAC region. The Associate Editor (Market Reporter) is expected to:

- Assess daily and weekly prices of Agriculture & Food commodities; reporting physical trade activities, including bids, offers and other relevant information on daily and weekly basis.
- Write daily and weekly commentaries and assessment rationale explaining the trends driving prices.
- Develop and maintain productive relationships with a broad base of key industry sources in APAC Agriculture & Food markets.
- Write supply-demand-pricing News Insights, Data and Event Analysis, Blogs, Interviews, Features, Factbox, etc.
- Research and interpret market developments and creating multi-media contents.
- Collaborate and produce cross-regional and cross-commodity market-moving insightful contents.
- Identify opportunities to develop and refine existing price assessment methodology as well as helping launch new price assessments.
- Ensure commentary and other contents are accurate and aligned with Platts price assessments.
- Represent Platts at national and international industry events with a view to eventually fulfil public speaking/expert panel engagements.

**What We're Looking For**:
**Basic Required Qualifications**:

- Degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Agronomics, Sciences, Journalism, or similar.
- A solid understanding of Economics and Commodities markets fundamentals.
- Fluent in English with excellent English writing skills.
- 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.
- Entrepreneurial and self-starter mindset with effective problem-solving skills.
- An ability to multitask and prioritize under tight deadlines.
- Willingness to travel.

**Additional Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience in commodity trading and/or price reporting.
- Experience in Agriculture & Food sector.
- Additional language skills is 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 while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

**Our Values**:
**Integrity, Discovery, Partnership**

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of **integrity** in all we do, bring a spirit of **discovery** to our work, and collaborate in close **partnership** with each other and our customers to ac