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• About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 11 The Role: Strategic Engagement & Intelligence Lead, EMEA Established Benchmarks The Location: London, UK The Team: Strategic Engagement & Intelligence Group, a part of Platts (MRTS) cross-commodity Market Development & Engagement Group (MD&E) is looking for a team member in the London to facilitate market engagement activities across the EMEA region for Established Benchmarks. The lead will be responsible for leading development of engagement plans, as well as ensuring execution of regional engagement activities. They will be tasked with leading external engagement with a focus on gathering intelligence, supporting our pricing initiatives and content development. The successful candidate will engage with key decision makers in related sectors and help develop engagement strategy in the region. They will have the opportunity to speak at external events. They will represent key commodity lines for Platts at key meetings as well as working on special projects as needed by the commodity pricing teams and in collaboration with other MD&E teams. The Impact: The Established Benchmarks SEIG lead will be a critical role to elevate Platts’ visibility in the EMEA commodity markets, as well as to help drive further market and methodology development globally and to educate markets on the importance and relevance of physical benchmarks. The role also ensures regular outreach to key market participants who are prioritized each year in our engagement benchmark scorecards. This role will importantly be involved in cross commodity projects such as alternative marine fuels. What’s in it for you: Cross departmental visibility (commercial, marketing, client services, MRTS, analytics, eWindow, content and product) Lead meetings and presentations to middle, senior and C-suite managers of major companies and trading houses; industry associations and government officials. Develop and lead our go-to market engagement strategy for commodity pricing in Established Benchmarks for EMEA Develop strategic messaging for our EMEA engagements; and distill and activate intelligence gathered in the course of engagements. Global leadership experience. Responsibilities: Lead engagement strategy planning with the regional team and global teams Lead execution of the plan through establishment of meetings and supporting commercially requested meetings Learn details across the commodities portfolio to present across topics Collaborate with content-commercial on the Value Add program Drive best practice for Market Engagement, including: development of high quality presentation content; development of high quality meeting notes; demonstrating strong presentation and meeting communication skills; demonstrate strong planning skills. Participate/collaborate in Methodology planning and development in the region Contribute to social media content development (blogs; podcasts; webinars) What We’re Looking For: Solid understanding of EMEA and global commodities markets Experience in price formation and methodology in those markets Previous experience in engaging clients or sources in markets Foundational experience with leadership and influencing skills Excellent planning and time management skills Strong communication skills including: Public speaking experience; good listening skills and strong written and oral capabilities Exercises critical thinking capabilities Multilingual capabilities a plus Willingness to travel approximately 30-40% of the time Basic Qualifications: Undergraduate degree Market price experience with good understanding of trade flows and workings of global commodities markets Strong communication skills Excellent leadership Strong track-record and ability to execute and collaborate across multiple teams. 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