Fastmarkets 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.

Fastmarkets Data team is a new and dynamic function supporting the business in developing and delivering our data strategy through data, insights, and business intelligence. Highly valued by the business we are working hard to transform data function and ways of working.

Reporting directly into ambitious Head of Data we are looking for the right candidate to work with business stakeholders and implement best practices through the selection, coordination and implementation of data initiatives aligned with the Fastmarkets strategy and roadmap.

We are seeking a Data Business Analyst / Delivery Manager to drive the delivery and implementation of cross-functional data solutions.

The right candidate will have a strong business acumen and will be passionate about Data and able to lead the delivery on the priorities set by the business in a timely fashion.

Principal Accountabilities

• Liaise with the stakeholders to define the scope of the prioritised data projects
• Get involved in and lead the delivery of cross functional data projects and initiatives across Fastmarkets
• Actively collaborate with business stakeholders to enhance communication between Data and other departments (including, but not restricted to Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product, Events)
• Play a significant role in advocating the new ways of working by engaging stakeholder to accelerate the approved data transformation projects to shape Fastmarkets ambitious plans
• Lead the delivery of cross functional data projects and initiatives across Fastmarkets
• Conduct a discovery phase for the projects identifying the current state, creating a business case, identifying requirements and establishing the project’s workstreams
• Deliver the projects through appropriate project management techniques
• Lead stakeholder and project governance meetings, facilitating decision making and prioritisation
• Ensure stakeholders are managed well and communicated with effectively through appropriate project status reporting
• Work to measurable short and long-term project objectives and ensuring team members, stakeholders and vendors meet them
• Establish and manage budgets, ensuring projects are delivered within budget
• Clearly documenting project schedules and roadmaps
• Create guidelines for evaluating a project’s strengths and identifying where further improvement is required
• Actively manage risks and issues, as well as dependencies resolving problems with project as they arise

We 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 SKILLS

We 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.

• Proactive and results-focused, with strong capabilities in data project management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, tailored to suit diverse audiences
• Analytical mindset with a strong inclination for problem-solving within data environments
• Experience in creating, mapping, and implementing business processes, particularly related to data
• Sound commercial awareness with a robust understanding of data architecture and governance
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment, maintaining attention to detail
• Proficient in collaborative teamwork, with the ability to engage effectively with C-suite and senior stakeholders
• Relevant certifications in Business Analysis and Project Management (e.g., PMP, Prince2) are advantageous
• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement and Lean Six Sigma, with a focus on enhancing data processes

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets 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.