Price Reporter
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Job Location:
Memphis, TN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
29-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Role
To produce price assessments and market intelligence that are critical to the North American hardwood industry. To cement our standing as the most trusted source of hardwood pricing information for more than 100 years. To support and develop new avenues that further imbed our data and news across the industry.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Assess hundreds of prices each week using our proprietary MInD database while adhering to our published methodologies and IOSCO principles.
- Provide indispensable market commentary that provides context to the prices reported each week.
- Produce market news and analysis for our Hardwood Market Report weekly publication HMR Import and HMR Executive monthly publications.
- Cultivate new sources for market data while maintaining our vast network of industry contacts.
- Edit copy and peer review price assessments to ensure compliance with our published methodologies.
- Attend industry conferences and events represent the business through speaking engagements and industry outreach
KEY INTERFACES
Work within an experienced team of editors to produce HMRs publications. More broadly collaborate with colleagues in other parts of the Forest Products business including analysts and economists. Work with marketing and events teams to expand the reach of our price data and market reporting. Reports to hardwood team leader.
Qualifications :
We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded curious resilient solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality then read on...
KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
- Some professional writing experience preferably in newspapers or other trade journals.
- Ability to be self-motivated in a remote-work environment while also working collaboratively with teams across the organization.
- Strong concise writing and editing skills; ability to write authoritatively and to the point.
- Comfort with numbers statistics and data-driven prose.
- Strong interviewing skills and phone email etiquette.
- Ability to meet multiple weekly and daily deadlines.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office especially Excel.
- Prior knowledge of hardwood industry a plus
If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information :
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.
If the position is listed as remote this opportunity is available to applicants based in the following states:
Illinois
Massachusetts*
New York
Texas*
* Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working.
Otherwise the position will be located as shown in the advert.
Youve read a little about us now its over to you!
If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.
Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
Who we are Fastmarkets is the most trusted cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) in the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts and market analyses give our customers a strategic advantage in complex, volatile, of ... View more
