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Associate Editor / Deputy Editor - Americas Biofuels
Location : Houston, TX
About Argus
Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets.
Headquartered in London with 1,400 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 30 offices in the world's principal commodity trading hubs. Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy.
Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders, global growth equity firm General Atlantic.
What will you be doing?
Argus seeks a driven, enthusiastic, naturally curious and hard-working associate editor or deputy editor to help lead its Houston-based biofuels team. The successful candidate will work closely with editors in London, Brazil, Singapore and in regional offices, as well as with other editorial teams and management, Data and Production teams, business development, sales and marketing, consulting and conferences.
This is a unique opportunity to cover rapidly expanding biofuels markets. Coverage includes renewable feedstocks, ethanol, biodiesel, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel and environmental credits including Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs).
The role requires daily monitoring and assessing biofuels markets to produce and oversee news, price assessments, market commentaries and reports on an array of biofuel products, while developing and maintaining rapport with key contacts and liaising regularly with industry stakeholders.
It requires external presentations, copy editing and mentoring new recruits, as well as helping with multiple daily publication duties. It requires helping with all aspects of the report needs to support and back up the editor.
Skills and Experience
- A minimum of four years of prior experience with commodity markets preferred
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, economics, business or relevant field
- A strong understanding of economics and the role and practice of price reporting.
- Strong writing skills and comfortable with basic math and numerical analysis.
- A commitment to the highest level of accuracy and completing tasks on deadline.
- Comfortable with phone and in-person interviews and the ability to find sources from scratch and build relationships.
- Demonstrated goal-oriented collaboration skills, with strong diplomatic and problem-solving ability as well as an ability to handle multiple tasks on a tight daily schedule
- Experience in a professional publishing capacity or in an analyst role
- The willingness and ability to travel up to 15% of the time in order to fulfill the responsibilities of this position
- Ability to train new hires
- Ability to edit news articles and market commentaries
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