Associate Price Reporter, Shipping

**Associate Price Reporter, Shipping & Freight Pricing**:

- Gurgaon, India
- Editorial Group
- 317088

**Job Description**:
**About The Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**:
09
** The** **Role**: Associate Price Reporter, Shipping & Freight Pricing

**The Team**:S&P Global Commodity Insights/Platts has a team of shipping researchers based out of Gurgaon. The team is tasked with leading an exciting global project on freight markets, including port fee data collection for hundreds of ports worldwide and calculating tanker Base rates. The team works closely with the Shipping and Freight Editorial team, which tracks the very exciting and fast-moving shipping market. This team is responsible for producing the freight assessments that underpin commodity pricing markets and are used in physical and derivative freight trading.

**The Impact**:This is a critical role for Platts, and researchers will have the opportunity to lead and execute end-to-end projects.

**What’s in it for you**:

- Potential to gain expertise in the seaborne transportation sector.
- Opportunity to build valuable contacts with shipping market leaders and experts.
- An entry point into S&P Global, one of India’s Best Companies to Work for in 2021.
- Work closely with Platts’ leaders in Gurgaon, our fastest growing Pricing and Content Hub, and Singapore, our key Pricing hub in Asia as well as Houston, our prominent Pricing hub in the Americas.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leading and executing end-to-end projects.
- Collecting tanker freight market information, collecting port fee data for hundreds of ports.
- Developing, expanding, and maintaining sources.
- Delivering quality and accurate research reports.
- Identifying process improvement ideas and educating the market through various engagement initiatives and sources development.

**What We’re Looking For**:
**Basic Qualifications**:

- Experience in conducting research.
- Excellent communication skills, and a clear, concise writing style.
- The ability to communicate with a wide range of groups and personalities.
- Able to work independently and collaboratively with global S&P Global teams across different time zones whilst simultaneously carrying out independent tasks and activities.
- Strong numeracy skills, including ability to conceptualize proportional relationships.
- Possess excellent Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Highly skilled in Powerpoint/Data Analysis tools like Power Bi and other data visualization tools

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Understanding of commodity markets and its dynamics
- Shipping/freight market experience, or market reporting experience, a bonus
- A basic understanding of economics principles is also preferred.

**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 achieve shared goals.

**Benefits**:*