Job Description

Job description

We are looking for an experienced commodity markets professional to work in a fast-growing team of leading carbon market reporters and analysts.

Reporting to the Managing Editor, Americas Carbon, the role involves finding and writing breaking news and features for the global carbon markets, market and price reporting on the voluntary and compliance carbon markets, client engagement and developing new products and services to better help our clients manage risk.

Your ideas to enhance our coverage will be encouraged, and we offer a work environment where your thoughts and experience will directly contribute to how we grow the business.

Covering the news file will take up about 70% of your working day and market and price reporting another 20%. The remainder of the role will be focused on client engagement and working with the wider team to help build out our price assessment offering and other products.

Most importantly, though, we are looking for the right person and so will be happy to tailor the role to the person’s strengths where possible.

The work location is hybrid for applicants in our Houston office; applicants in other US states will work remotely.

International travel and attendance at industry conferences will be required.

Training/guidance will be provided for aspects of your role.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to price discovery through developing and engaging contacts in the voluntary carbon market and North American compliance markets
• Produce spot news stories on a daily basis that join the dots and unveil trends
• Produce high-quality longer-form journalism periodically
• Attend and report from industry and UN conferences internationally

Experience and competencies

• An interest in commodity markets and breaking news
• Very strong writing skills
• Good mathematical skills and experience with spreadsheets
• Awareness of price discovery in opaque markets and what it entails
• The ability to juggle several tasks at once
• Proactive team player with a drive for collaboration and strong communication skills
• Proven experience as a self-starter who works well under pressure

What we offer

• The opportunity to join a fast-growing company at an early stage of our development
• A workspace where your thoughts and experience are valued, and the flexibility to shape your own role
• Competitive salary
• Participation in the company share option scheme
• Life insurance
• Flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance and exchange policy

About Quantum

Established in 2021, Quantum Commodity Intelligence is the world’s first price reporting agency dedicated to providing commodity market intelligence for energy transition and carbon markets.

London-headquartered, but with registered offices in Dubai, Houston, and Singapore, the company provides commodity benchmarks for carbon offsets, crude and oil products, biofuels and environmental certificates as well as ammonia and hydrogen.

In addition to its benchmark pricing, QCI offers clients access to real-time, market moving news and data.

Bootstrapped and profitable since inception, the company raised $16.3 million in growth capital in July 2024 to broaden its suite of price assessments and commodity intelligence offering. The investment from US-based VC firm Elephant represented a minority stake in the business.

Quantum’s clients include energy majors, law firms, consultants, governments as well as of low-carbon commodities who use QCI proprietary price assessments and intelligence to better manage risk.

Nearly 40,000 industry professionals have accessed QCI services since October 2021 and the company has clients located in more than 100 countries.

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