Fertilizer Week, the leading global market intelligence service, is seeking to appoint two Markets Reporters to join its team of analysts around the world. CRU has offices in a number of countries but we favour candidates working in either our Pittsburgh or London offices.
Part of the CRU Group – the leading independent authority on fertilizers, mining and metals – Fertilizer Week is a fast-growing, well established, daily, high priced subscription digital product. Its subscribers rely on FW for daily and weekly price and market updates and use FW data in their contracts with their customers.
The successful candidates may have experience in B2B journalism or in commodities markets but will want to focus on gaining a deep understanding of the working of key global markets and particularly on price discovery. FW covers industries such as nitrogen, phosphates, sulphur and potash and the markets editor will form a broad knowledge before specializing.
The candidates will need to feel comfortable communicating with a range of international contacts from different countries and backgrounds, mainly at upper management level. Managing these contacts to build an accurate and robust view of prices every week is the core of the job – writing news and analysis is also important.
This will require perseverance and a good telephone manner as well as the ability to maintain and build new relationships in order to maintain and enhance the quality of the information gathered. Networking with sources will require some travel to industry conferences. A high level of energy and commitment are required for this job.
A background in fertilizers, metals, petrochemicals, oil and gas or other related commodities and/or shipping would be an advantage to understanding the fertilizer markets.
As analysis and report writing are the main parts of the job, a high command of the English language is a must if the candidate’s mother tongue is not English.
How to apply
To be considered for this role, please send your cover letter and CV to recruitment@crugroup.com