Manager, Price Reporting - Environmental Markets

S&P Global•Houston, TX

30d•Hybrid

About The Position

S&P Global Energy is seeking a Manager, Price Reporting to lead Platts carbon and RNG/biomethane coverage in the Americas. This role involves managing and motivating a team, writing about pricing information, interpreting data, and developing and protecting Platts price assessments. The successful candidate will become familiar with Platts environmental markets coverage to support, mentor, and develop the reporting team. They will also represent Platts externally, explaining price assessment methodology, delivering insights through content creation (podcasts, analysis, features, special reports), and working with their team to evolve existing assessments and develop new market coverage. Collaboration with colleagues across regions and sector groups is key to refining Platts carbon suite and addressing impacts of carbon markets. This managerial position is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Americas carbon team, including scheduling coverage and holidays, conducting performance reviews, empowering team members, fostering collaboration, and encouraging innovation, particularly in AI integration. The role requires strong public speaking and presentation skills, and the ability to engage with key industry stakeholders.

Requirements

Knowledge of the Platts approach to pricing commodities.
Demonstrate ability to motivate and lead people and manage processes in a fast-paced environment.
Strong leadership ability that utilizes influence and promotes team collaboration and development, as well as personal accountability.
Accuracy under time pressure, by ensuring accurate assessments are delivered to the market consistently.
Ability to react quickly to changing market conditions.
Proven real-time news abilities with clean and concise English writing style and strong editing skills.
Superior communication skills with the ability to converse articulately across a wide range of groups and personalities, internally and externally.
Strong public speaking / presentational skills.
Strong Microsoft Office skills including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Proven analytical ability and comfortable handling numbers.
Excellent at identifying improvements and efficiencies and implementing processes that continually promote productivity and quality improvements.
Ability to identify talent and nurture development within and across teams.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience covering international financial and commodities markets in a price reporting or analytical role, including an interest in environmental markets.
Prior management experience, having led a team of market reporters or analysts.
Demonstrate ability to create relevant pricing content and drive news and thought leadership in the team including podcasts, analysis, features.
Degree in Journalism, Business or Finance.
Project management experience.

Responsibilities

Managing and motivating the Americas team covering environmental markets.
Writing about pricing information and interpreting data.
Develop and protect Platts price assessments.
Support, mentor, and develop the reporting team.
Represent Platts externally in explaining price assessment methodology.
Deliver insights by producing relevant pricing content and thought leadership including podcasts, analysis, features and special reports.
Evolve existing Platts price assessments and develop new market coverage.
Identify opportunities for developing and refining Platts carbon suite, as well as other sector groups impacted by carbon markets.
Managing a team of price reporters across the Americas, and contributing on coverage on an as-needed basis.
Develop team members and foster a positive, collaborative and collegial team culture by providing regular constructive insights to the team.
Produce and oversee price assessments in line with Platts rigorous and published methodology while ensuring adherence to ISOCO Principles for Price Reporting Agencies.
Reviewing prices assessments and being the critical "second pair of eyes" check.
Ensure that emerging market issues which may require further investigation and potential methodology adjustment are highlighted and acted upon in an appropriate time frame.
Responsible for the day-to-day running of the Americas carbon team including scheduling coverage and holidays.
Conduct managerial performance reviews, empower team members, foster collaboration, and encourage innovation—particularly in the use of Artificial Intelligence in daily workflow.
Write and lead the generation of thought-leadership content, including analysis, features, blogs, special reports and digital content including podcasts and videos.
Lead frequent engagements with key industry stakeholders, explaining methodology and identifying market trends that could lead to methodology changes.
Work across commodity groups and regions within Platts to foster collaboration in reporting and external market engagement.