Price Reporter, Forest
Core
Produce weekly price assessments and market intelligence for the North American softwood industry, serving as a trusted source for traders and risk managers.
Role type
Senior price reporter (commodities)
Builds
Random Lengths Weekly/Midweek/Lumber and Panel Reports, Fastmarkets dashboard, and proprietary MInD database entries
Domain
Forest products / Softwood lumber market
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery
Required skills
Professional writing and editing, data analysis and statistics, interviewing, Microsoft Excel, meeting tight deadlines
Preferred skills
Prior knowledge of the softwood industry, experience in trade journalism
Responsibilities
Assess hundreds of prices weekly using proprietary databases, produce market commentary and news analysis, cultivate new data sources and maintain industry contacts, edit and peer review price assessments, represent the business at industry conferences
Seniority
Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC