About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
11 Grade Level (for internal use): 11
The Team
Platts is the world's leading price reporting organisation, and a cornerstone of how global commodity markets discover price. Our London-based Residual Fuels team publishes European and African fuel oil and marine fuels assessments — including globally recognised industry benchmarks such as FOB Rotterdam 3.5% FO barges and FOB Rotterdam 0.5% Marine Fuel barges — that commodity traders, regulators, and investors rely on every single day. This is a team that operates at pace, holds itself to the highest standards of accuracy, and plays an outsized role in the transparency and integrity of global energy markets.
Responsibilities and Impact
Lead daily editorial operations — Manage the day-to-day running of the five-person London residual fuels team, overseeing scheduling, coverage, and editorial workflow in full compliance with Platts assessment methodology and IOSCO Principles for Price Reporting Agencies.
Safeguard assessment integrity — Act as the critical second-review function, approving high-importance daily price assessments and ensuring process adherence at every stage of the assessment cycle.
Identify and escalate market developments — Monitor evolving fuel oil and marine fuels market dynamics, surfacing emerging issues and triggering timely methodology reviews in coordination with the Associate Editorial Director and Business Quality and Controls team.
Drive and direct news coverage — Write and publish real-time news and analysis across residual fuels markets while developing the team's news output to maximise market depth and relevance.
Coach and develop price reporters — Mentor junior team members through structured training, methodology coaching, and professional development, maintaining a consistent and scalable approach to coverage standards.
Represent Platts internally and externally — Serve as a confident ambassador for the team's work, contributing to client engagement, methodology training, and external communications as required.
Compensation & Benefits Information
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What We're Looking For
Basic Required Qualifications
An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 3+ years of relevant experience in price reporting, commodity analytics, or editorial management within a commodities or financial markets environment.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Journalism, or a related field.
Editorial Delivery: Demonstrated track record producing accurate, timely news and price reporting outputs under intra-day deadlines across multiple simultaneous priorities in a high-pressure environment.
Team Management: Proven experience supervising or managing editorial or analytical teams, including scheduling, quality oversight, and professional development.
Market Coverage: Demonstrated ability to write, edit, and publish real-time commodity or financial markets news and analysis to a professional editorial standard.
Additional Preferred Qualifications
Direct experience in commodity price assessment or benchmark methodology, including working knowledge of price reporting processes within or alongside a regulated PRA environment.
Detailed knowledge of European and/or African residual fuels markets, including trading patterns for products such as marine fuels, bunkers, feedstocks, base oils, or bitumen.
Experience contributing to methodology development, market consultations, or IOSCO-aligned governance processes.
Proficiency in one or more European languages in addition to English.
Master's degree or PhD in Economics, Energy, Finance, Journalism, or a related discipline.
Experience in broadcasting, presenting, or delivering external stakeholder communications in a commodity markets or media context.
Demonstrated ability to identify and implement editorial workflow improvements that…