Senior Reporter - Natural Gas Liquids

Job Description:

As a Senior Reporter, you will collect and analyze trade information to assess a daily pricing index for the North American natural gas liquids physical spot markets. You will report on natural gas liquids trading and fundamentals and create alerts relevant to the industry. Additionally, you will be trained to cover multiple products such as pricing tickers, forward curves and other editorial tasks. You will report to the Journalism Associate Director.

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products. Navigating world fuel markets is complex – OPIS makes it simpler.

• Be trained to cover the North American natural gas liquids physical spot markets
• Gather spot market price transactions and market intel from industry participants by email, instant messaging and by phone
• Verify the legitimacy of the transactions and adhere to OPIS pricing methodology when assessing daily benchmarked and non-benchmarked prices
• Create breaking and feature news alerts relevant to the North American natural gas liquids markets
• Contribute to social media content, blog postings, industry analysis, and publish OPIS reports
• Understand and promote the OPIS NGL suite of products offered
• Help support upgrades to current OPIS publications and new project ideas
• Attend or host industry events and conferences
• Meet and network with current sources and resources, and develop new sources in the North American natural gas liquids industry
• Uphold, follow and adhere to OPIS compliance policy, code of ethics and methodologies

• At least 4 years' journalism, price assessing and/or active business experience in the natural gas liquids or energy/commodity markets 
• Experience with energy market data analysis, pricing, and reporting
• Pricing methodology creation experience
• Developed news and content creation strategies
• Managed hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annual publishing deadlines
• Experience with Google Suite, Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook and Python (preferred)
• Bilingual English/Spanish language proficiency (preferred)
• Undergraduate degree in Energy, Journalism, English, Finance, Business, Data Science or related area of study -OR- equivalent work experience

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
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