Samyak Pandey
New Delhi
Summary
Strategic editorial leader and Price Reporting Agency professional with a proven track record of driving benchmark price adoption and market transparency. Expert in navigating volatile commodity markets, ensuring methodology adherence, and elevating global price visibility through high-level stakeholder engagement. Adept at cross-functional leadership, orchestrating integrated global coverage sprints, and mentoring high-performing teams. A forward-thinking innovator who leverages AI to optimize editorial workflows, transforming raw market intelligence into actionable, C-suite decision-making tools. Results-driven editor with a strong focus on cross-functional orchestration, market intelligence, and AI-driven workflow automation. Achieved a 66% growth in output while enhancing team collaboration and C-suite engagement.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
Editor, Global Biofuels, Agriculture & Proteins
S&P Global Energy (Platts)
New Delhi
02.2022 - Current
- Progressed into a strategic thought leadership role, scaling content output and leading cross-functional teams to align editorial strategy with enterprise commercial goals.
- Driving Benchmark Adoption & Price Visibility: Elevated Platts from a price data provider to a trusted industry voice by acting as the primary media representative at major global events. Translated external visibility into actionable intelligence, bringing real-time sentiment from dealmaking rooms directly into Platts coverage to validate price curves and increase market-wide confidence in benchmark assessments.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Matrix Management: Led integrated coverage sprints across the Refinery and Energy Transition desks, co-authoring and coordinating 70+ pieces while aligning angles, deadlines, and global distribution. Acted as the project steward for the Oceania editorial campaign, coaching peers on aligning newswriting with broader enterprise commercial goals.
- Market Intelligence & High-Level Engagement: Cultivated deep industry trust to secure exclusive, market-moving intelligence, such as early reporting on major refinery cancellations ahead of competitors. Chaired the IBET 2025 policy session, AIDA 2026 Conclave moderating C-suite and government discussions to drive actionable next steps.
- Strategic Deliverables & Metrics: Scaled output to 580+ bylines in a single year (+66% growth), driving 13,000+ interactions. Built and distributed a multi-source 'Tariffs & Trade Briefing' tailored for 170 internal and external C-suite leaders to manage risk during volatile geopolitical disruptions.
- Innovation & AI Workflow Optimization: Championed AI integration across the newsroom. Mentored team members on leveraging S&P Global AI tools (Kensho, Spark) to standardize high-quality output. Automated content curation workflows, reducing the effort required for deep-dive analysis from 75 days to just 16 hours, and saving over 1,000 minutes of manual transcription.
- Represented S&P Global Energy on national and international media translating complex policy and commodity dynamics for large broadcast and digital audiences and reinforcing benchmark credibility.
- Award-Winning Enterprise Impact: Winner of the S&P Global Look Forward Council Award (2025) for exceptional cross-divisional research connecting complex supply chain and macroeconomic themes.
Correspondent & Data Journalist
Prior Organisations (ThePrint, Bloomberg Quint)
- Coordinated and transcribed 100+ high-level interviews with government officials and industry leaders. Led cross-functional teams on major investigative projects, translating raw interview data into data-driven policy analysis.
- Covered government policy implementation across multiple ministries, with a focus on infrastructure and energy. Built strong relationships with government agencies and policy stakeholders, an experience that underpins later success in engaging regulators, ministries, and industry bodies in energy and commodity markets.
- Produced engaging content under tight deadlines, demonstrating exceptional time management skills.
- Covered breaking news events, providing timely updates and analysis to keep the public informed.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - English, German, French
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, IN-UP01-2016
Postgraduate Diploma - Radio and Television Journalism
Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)
Delhi01.2017
Skills
- PRA strategy
- Price integrity
- Benchmark price discovery
- LPDA Strategy Implementation
- Adherence to methodology
- Price Curve Validation
- Cross-Functional Orchestration
- Team Mentoring
- Coaching
- Matrix Management
- Strategic Project Stewardship
- Event Chairing
- Moderation
- C-Suite Relationship Building
- Broadcast Media Representation
- Media Commentator
- Brand Authority
- Source Networks
- AI-Driven Workflow Automation
- Data Visualization
- Multi-Channel Content Strategy
- Commodity Market Analysis
- Trend Forecasting
- Cross-Commodity Synthesis
- Policy Tracking
- Regulatory Tracking
- Supply-Demand Mapping
- Real-Time News Reporting
- Feature Analysis
- Integrated Market Commentary
- Benchmark-Linked Markets
- Correction-Free Content
- Methodology-Aligned Content
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- Data Visualization Platforms
- Analytics Platforms
- AI Tools
- Market analysis
- Cross-functional leadership
- Editorial oversight
- Strategic content planning
Alignment with Fastmarkets & Role
- Experienced in operating inside a PRA-style environment where price credibility, methodology discipline and audit-ready processes are critical, and where customers rely on benchmarks for trading, hedging and risk management.
- Demonstrated leadership in cross-regional collaborations (APAC and EMEA), cross-functional initiatives, and multi-project coordination, well suited to leading and coaching a dispersed team of price reporters.
- Metrics-driven, accountable and growth-oriented, with a consistent record of scaling output, innovating formats and embracing new technology to improve quality, speed and customer value; strong cultural fit with Fastmarkets' values.
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
linkedin.com/in/say2samyak
Timeline
Editor, Global Biofuels, Agriculture & Proteins
S&P Global Energy (Platts)
02.2022 - Current
Correspondent & Data Journalist
Prior Organisations (ThePrint, Bloomberg Quint)
Bachelor of Arts - English, German, French
Banaras Hindu University
Postgraduate Diploma - Radio and Television Journalism
Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)