Job Vacancies at AgriCensus
Current Vacancies at AgriCensus
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Editor, Agriculture
Location: London, Kiev or Chicago with occasional travel required. Other locations may be considered for the right candidate.
Reports to: Editorial Director
Full time position
Start date: ASAP
Who are we:
Census Commodity Data Ltd was formed in 2017 by commodity market journalist and business professionals who believe there are opportunities to provide insightful news and robust pricing information in a range of commodity markets.
We have clients in more than 60 countries globally and one of the widest distribution networks in the agricultural information industry.
Job Description
We are looking for a market reporter or industry professional with at least two years’ experience of either covering commodity markets or working in them to help us report on the bulk agriculture markets.
The role involves writing a mixture of real-time news, news analysis as well as price reporting, roughly in three equal measures.
As such, the candidate must have some experience of writing tight copy under time pressure and have a willingness to write longer-form journalism that seeks to join the dots and educate.
You will be part of an international team, and being a team player and a self-starter is of utmost importance.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing editorial team that breaks global news and moves international markets. Therefore, the successful candidate will have energy and enthusiasm for discovering and reporting new information.
The role will offer you:
- Flexible working;
- International exposure;
- Opportunities to advance within the team and the company as it grows;
- International travel to meet the industry and establish key relationships;
- Exposure to high-level industry executives and policy makers;
- Extensive social media distribution of your work; and
- A future career path into covering different commodities and industries as the company grows
Responsibilities
- Reporting on trading activity in the global agriculture markets;
- Assessing markets based on physical bids, offers and traded information in line with our published methodology;
- Identifying and writing vanilla news stories;
- Writing commentaries explaining the key trends that drive prices;
- Crafting analysis pieces that take a forward view without editorialising;
- Representing AgriCensus at industry events, such as conferences or in face-to-face meetings;
- Providing editing support for our agriculture services; and
- Identifying opportunities to improve our methodology or launch new price assessments.
Qualifications, experience and competencies
- Two years of reporting/writing experience;
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to converse across a wide range of groups and personalities, internally and externally;
- Clear, concise writing style, strong editing skills;
- Proven analytical ability and superb excel skills;
- Understands maths, economics and statistics principles; and
- Excellent English writing skills.
Why work with us?
We are a young and vibrant business, with big ambitions and this is a unique opportunity to join us at an early stage of our development to help set the company direction.
Through working with a highly experienced team of journalists and industry professionals, we can offer the training, support and opportunities that larger organisations cannot.
Work with experts who have an unrivalled track record of success.
Remuneration
Salary depending on experience.
Eligible to join the corporate share options scheme.
To apply, please send your CV and covering letter: andy.allan@agricensus.com and tim.worledge@agricensus.com
Or for an informal chat contact Andy at +44 7709 418673 or Tim on +44 7811 502747
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Sales Executives, Agriculture
London UK; Kyiv Ukraine
Reports to: Sales Manager, London
Full time position
Start date: ASAP
Job Description
We are looking for dynamic, key members of the sales team who are going to be instrumental in taking us to the next level of development.
You will be committed to helping us rapidly build our brand awareness by establishing relationships with major global companies and ensuring they have tried our service. Thereafter, you will convert them into paying clients, manage the account, feed their requests back and handle the renewal.
Key responsibilities
- Develop client relationships: identify, initiate contact and build our brand awareness among key users
- Close sales at the appropriate levels
- Secure contract renewal and grow revenues for each client
- Collaborate with editorial teams focused on developing the product in different areas
- Develop product offering to meet the changing needs of our client base
- Leverage research and industry expertise into the client base.
Skills/Proficiencies required
You must be passionate, energetic and happy working alone and in teams.
In addition, you will:
- Be a highly self-motivated professional with a proven track record of managing client relationships and delivering incremental revenue, ideally in the B2B information space
- Possess excellent networking, communication and presentation skills that allow you to uncover new opportunities and deepen client relationships
- Have the tenacity, drive, commercial awareness and persuasiveness to close deals
- Be target oriented
- Be able to manage workload across all clients, balancing proactive commercial activities with reactive client support
- Be able to quickly develop knowledge of market trends and dynamics
- Be fluent in English and at least one other language
Why work for AgriCensus
We are a growing business, with big ambitions and this is a unique opportunity to join us at an early stage of our development to help form the company direction.
Work with experts who have an unrivalled track record of success.
Remuneration
TBD - Base salary, target-related bonus and potential to join the corporate share options scheme
To apply, please send your details to olivier.geleoc@agricensus.com or contact Olivier +44 7425 100449