Polling Correspondent

Polling Correspondent:

The Reuters Polling team in Bangalore is seeking a Polling Correspondent to help drive the team’s coverage of the world’s largest economies, central bank policy and the price outlook for the most-traded asset classes in financial markets. Working from an existing source list of thousands of professionals, the Polling Correspondent will develop and build new sources across a wider range of industries, looking for new ways to poll leading economists and market professionals on how central bankers are faring, playing a key role in framing and
finalising questions that aim to address some of the biggest economic policy challenges.

About the Role:
As Polling Correspondent you will:

• Identify and keep up with market-moving economic events
• Plan and coordinate polls effectively
• Contribute to and lead regular discussions on subjects covered by the global team.
• Develop strong relations with key sources and help expand our source lists to ensure the participants that matter most are always present on key polls.
• Develop sector specialization through research and networking.
• Be innovative and flexible by suggesting improvements, challenging accepted norms and introducing new ways of storytelling.
• Participate in training programmes for new hires and mentor team members.

About You:

The preferred candidate for Polling Correspondent will be,

• A clear and effective communicator with senior executives at financial institutions.
• Comfortable with handling large quantities of data.
• Keen to collaborate with colleagues on the team and elsewhere in Reuters on stories.
• Strive to add to a file of initiative reporting and analysis based on our exclusive data.
• A clear thinker, able to construct clear questions that generate data and news that are relevant to both our top financial customer and the wider news file.
• Fluent with some and keen to learn more about financial markets, economics and central bank policy.
• Flexible to work on a rotational working shift.

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What's in it for you

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth: 

• Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities  

  
  

• Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists 

  
  

• Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days 

  
  

• Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories. 

  
  

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