Regional Managing Editor - Agriculture

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Fastmarkets is an industry‑leading price‑reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new‑generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

The Role

The regional managing editor is a key role helping to deliver our PRA strategy, leading and managing a team of price reporters and team leaders, across a range of commodity areas. The role is accountable for developing and executing the regional strategy for the markets under its remit, and contributing to and help driving the global strategy.

Implementing the broader Fastmarkets growth strategies, working with the editorial directors for the relevant vertical and the senior leadership team to shape and communicate the Fastmarkets vision. The role will balance occasional market coverage with expectations around maintaining unique content and commentaries that support pricing services; engaging with market participants to drive adoption; and doing so in a way that effectively balances managerial responsibilities against their role as a team member.

Drive excellence across regional teams, establishing the group collectively as industry experts, ensuring a constant stream of leading content and robust, correction‑free pricing and overseeing, nurturing and developing a high‑performing team of market experts.

Oversee up to 20 reporters in a region and relies on team leaders to co‑manage the team and day‑to‑day operations, being accountable for the regional strategy and supporting the editorial director to design and drive the strategy.

Principal accountabilities

Uphold the integrity of our prices by being a role model for the Fastmarkets' price development process; ensure team leaders and price reporters adhere to it when launching, amending or discontinuing prices.

Build trust and drive usage of our prices by championing our IOSCO‑compliant approach to price reporting, ensure team knows and abides by all processes around pricing, methodologies and audits.

Adopt and drive the LPDA (Launch, Promote, Defend, Attack) approach to price development and engagement campaigns.

Coach editors and collaborate with the editorial operations team to make continual improvements to our content and how it is delivered to improve quality, promote value‑added reporting and find compelling ways to highlight our expertise.

Lead and conduct market engagement via meetings and events with a focus on driving price adoption. Ensure a consistent flow of meeting insights are shared with relevant stakeholders to improve interactions and uncover opportunities.

Manage the regional team’s responsibilities and diary to ensure that a solid back‑up system is in place to maintain coverage through leaves or business travels, cooperating with other teams if needed.

Balance being the last resort for market coverage, while overseeing others' pricing and editorial work strategically to ensure that each supports the other.

Coordinate cross‑functional, cross‑department and cross‑regional collaboration, helping to break down silos and enrich content or pricing coverage.

Work with managing editors to facilitate successful staff development and retention, maintaining a positive working environment and culture. Champion Fastmarkets’ MAGICC values.

Support recruitment of high‑calibre candidates, develop and retain talent within the team and across the Fastmarkets group, promoting cross‑commodity and cross‑discipline moves where desirable.

Key interfaces

Reports to the global editorial director for the appropriate vertical, providing strategic input and contributing to cross‑functional initiatives.

Manages price reporters and team leads to implement Fastmarkets’ PRA approach.

Work closely with global and managing editors, and price development team on developing and prioritizing price benchmarks, products and market coverage.

Engaging with industry participants to gain feedback and insight, promote the quality of our prices, providing a consistent flow of feedback to all stakeholders.

Collaborates with Editorial Operations team to ensure content is produced in line with PRA strategy and to the appropriate style.

Engages with other leaders to develop and promote prices and content where there are crossovers, coordinates with the market development team to highlight new or emerging opportunities.

Fosters positive relationships with Strategy, Marketing, Product and Events teams to assist with the promotion of products and services.

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re 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.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven and a passion to be part of a fast‑paced, successful team. Being a team player is important and someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Strong background in pricing markets and journalism with expertise in commodity sector.

Full understanding of the use of Fastmarkets’ prices as benchmarks. Experience with high‑pressure benchmark markets welcome.

Strong leadership skills : demonstrable ability to plan, motivate, delegate work and achieve results through others, not themselves.

Experience in recruiting, training and mentoring a team to meet and exceed Fastmarkets’ standards for pricing, content and market coverage. Including setting objectives, conducting appraisals, providing feedback and promoting Fastmarkets’ values.

Experience in managing people managers and coaching them to drive performance within the team.

Experience in market engagement - organising or overseeing roadshows, webinars, external meetings and speaking at events.

Manage a budget and prioritise use of resources to achieve efficiencies and results, which include making tough decisions, business cases, and defending a spending plan.

Operate at the highest levels internally within a matrix management structure and with external stakeholders.

Lead multiple projects simultaneously with a vision that is communicated clearly and coherently.

Support risk and compliance in audit activities, ensure the team is comfortable and familiar with all processes under review.

Innovation and Creativity : Ability to foster a culture of innovation within the organization. Creativity to generate new product ideas and solutions to meet customer demands.

Business Acumen : Comprehensive understanding of the business, industry, and economic factors that impact growth. Financial literacy to assess the viability and profitability of new initiatives.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration : Effective communication and collaboration skills to work across different departments. Ability to build and lead cross‑functional teams to execute strategic initiatives.

Adaptability and Flexibility : Ability to adapt to changing market conditions and adjust strategies accordingly. Flexibility to pivot when needed and embrace continuous improvement.

Customer‑Centric : Understanding of customer needs and preferences. Ability to align product development with customer expectations.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s 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 personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're 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.

We're committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

If the position is listed as remote this opportunity is available to applicants based in the following states :

• Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working.

Otherwise the position will be located as shown in the advert.

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Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Writing / Editing

Industries

Information Services

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