Job Description

Company DescriptionFastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future - together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.Principal accountabilities

• Work with the market and internal stakeholders to support the growth of OTC financial products and liquid exchange contracts for commodities referenced on Fastmarkets prices in agriculture, pulp, paper, wood products and metals, minerals and mining

• The current priority will be to focus on agriculture, specifically energy transition markets that include biofuels and also battery making raw materials
• Understand and keep up to date on the competitive landscape and contribute to the actions and to the tactical plans to overcome these challenges
• Develop and maintain deep relationships with key stakeholders within partner accounts in the financial landscape
• Promote the financialization of Fastmarkets prices
• Manage commercial negotiations with exchange partners
• Promote price adoption across all the markets we have prioritised through

• Assessing supply chains to identify key customers
• Contacting and engaging with these customers alongside editorial and sales teams
• Leveraging the support of marketing and product
• Developing mid-senior relationships in named accounts responsible for pricing decisions and trading desks
• Ensure that we are maximising long-term commercial opportunities by

• Market sizing to identify new growth and emerging markets for coverage
• Assessing the financial opportunities that are incremental to existing plans
• Working with marketing and product on go to market strategies
• Influencing editorial coverage

QualificationsWe recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world\'s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We\'re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLSWe are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.Skills and knowledge

• Functional

• Interest and knowledge of commodities trading/exchange business/clearinghouse business model
• Experience in one of Fastmarkets strategic markets: Forest Products, Agriculture, Metals, Mining & Minerals
• Commercial

• Ability to quickly research, and assess the opportunities in new and emerging markets
• Assess the financial opportunities available and lead the plan to deliver them
• Market-facing

• Building and cultivating new relationships
• Delivering the financial opportunities associated with them
• Influencing

• Leading virtual teams that do not directly report to you
• Project managing go-to-market initiatives

If you\'re excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don\'t perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.Additional InformationOur ValuesFastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It\'s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they\'re embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers\' experience and our business performance

• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done

• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency

• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.

• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do

• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You\'ve read a little about us - now it\'s over to you!If you like what you\'ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it\'s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it\'s used to determine whether or not you\'ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we\'ll ask you on the day.It\'s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you\'re great.

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