We are seeking a talented and motivated individual to take on a leadership role covering prices in the Asian ferroalloys market with a focus on China. Key elements of the role include managing all aspects of the data collection and publication of CRU’s Asian ferroalloy prices, the expansion of price assessment contacts, developing new prices, as well as writing and editing market updates and analysis.
The job demands the ability to manage deadlines and contributions from a global team, maintain and grow a strong network of contacts, accurately assess prices to defined specifications, and contribute to the understanding of current and evolving market requirements for price benchmarks. The jobholder must be able to work effectively and collaboratively to lead a team of price and market analysis specialists, publishing to tight deadlines and working within an established compliance framework.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Managing Asian ferroalloy prices, leading a small team of price analysts in price discovery and assessments; maintaining and growing a network of contacts, sharing market intelligence; writing and editing market updates; collecting information on market requirements for price benchmarks, and dealing with price related inquiries.
Minimum Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
Additional Qualifications
- Fluent Mandarin and English
Knowledge & Experience
- Price discovery and assessment;
- Experience leading a small team;
- Network building and maintenance;
- Commodity pricing mechanisms, ideally in the ferroalloys and/or related markets;
- Market requirements for pricing benchmarks;
- Structure and operation of commodity supply chains, industry and competitive landscape;
- Creation and editing of written market analysis;
- Customer value drivers and motivations;
- Dealing with subscriber inquiries.
Skills & Competencies
- The ability to lead a small team
- To build, maintain and grow an effective market intelligence network;
- Price discovery;
- Market intelligence gathering;
- Critical analysis of data trends and key drivers;
- The ability to lead effectively in a multi-site international team and communicate with team members;
- Self-motivation and the ability to learn and expand knowledge in key markets related to pricing;
- Unrelenting attention to detail and the ability to deploy this in error-free outputs;
- Ability to work to strict deadlines and within the necessary compliance framework;
- First class communication skills, both written and verbal;
- Resilience, persistence and the determination to succeed;
- To be a team and company leader and work with colleagues towards common goals.
Technical & Other Skills
- Commodity pricing mechanisms and systems, ideally in in the ferroalloys market;
- Excellent IT skills including the use of MS Office (Advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook);
- Fluent written and spoken Mandarin and English;
- Primary and secondary research.
Dimensions, Scope & Complexity
The jobholder will be responsible for leading CRU’s Asian ferroalloy prices and related assessments. They must be able to demonstrate leadership qualities in the collection and assessment of price data. They will be able to form definitive market views by well-informed, high-frequency and extensive contact with a wide range of relevant price contacts and other market participants. The jobholder would ideally have a deep understanding of ferroalloys and related supply chains and must be an excellent networker and communicator.
Supervisory Responsibility
The jobholder will be responsible for leading across all aspects of CRUs Asian ferroalloy prices.
Special Working Conditions
Given the international nature of the team, some flexibility will be required from time to time in the scheduling and attendance of meetings with colleagues in different time zones.
This Job Description sets out key responsibilities of the role and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of tasks and duties. The Company reserves the right in its sole discretion to vary the responsibilities from time to time depending on the needs of the business and without changing the general character of level of the position.
