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.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate eager to help leading companies and governments transition to a low carbon, sustainable future by collecting, analyzing and delivering the data and insights that our clients need to navigate this change.

The Senior Analyst will be a content leader in the battery raw materials research team, with a focus on the lithium market and EV and ESS applications. The Senior Analyst contributes directly to the overall house view, overseeing data collection and analysis, and delivering market balance and price forecasts. Specifically, they will lead on providing a coherent picture of supply, demand, capacity, costs and key industry trends and drivers, and produce our short- and long-term lithium forecasts.

You will be joining a dynamic global team of researchers dedicated to understanding the rapidly evolving energy transition and battery raw materials markets. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude and can juggle a wide variety of tasks and projects.

Principal accountabilities

To lead on lithium market analysis and forecasts:

• Identifies necessary data inputs and oversees procurement, collection, cleaning and validating for forecasting lithium supply.
• Analyses and integrates lithium demand forecasts for EV and ESS applications to develop, produce and update supply/demand, market balance and price forecasts, considering cost and other critical metrics.
• Supplements forecast models with content creation on the battery raw materials market, technology development, regulatory/policy developments, supply, demand, capacity, trade and other factors that impact the industry.
• Is the lead author of Fastmarkets' Quarterly Lithium Long-term Forecast, and controls input from internal and external contributors to guarantee timely and coherent updates for our customers.
• Manages client and internal enquiries about the lithium and the wider battery raw materials market and is accountable for fulfilment of requests for insight and data for presentations and interviews.
• Data and analysis contributions for presentations at industry events, forums, webinars and product marketing.
• Supports the development of new and enhanced forecast products.
• Uses their network to engage with market participants, gain insights across the value chain, promote Fastmarkets data and insights and identify opportunities for product enhancements.
• Acts as subject matter expert to showcase value to prospective clients in partnership with sales.
• Works with consulting on projects by interacting with clients, helping specify and design studies which deliver to client needs, undertaking primary and secondary research, and supporting delivery.

Organization chart
Reports to Head of Battery Raw Materials

Key interfaces

• Head of BRM
• BRM Commodity Analysts
• BRM Research Analysts
• Editorial, marketing and sales

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.

• In-depth knowledge of lithium and working knowledge of other battery raw materials, battery chemistries, EV and ESS markets.
• 2-4 years of relevant data collection, management, analysis and forecast model development experience, including internship(s).
• Preference for previous experience in battery or commodities research, mining and refining, commodities trading and/or industrial manufacturing.
• Strong data identification and acquisition expertise conducted via primary and secondary research.
• Comprehensive understanding of statistical modelling and forecasting, particularly with regards to time series data, and some exposure to machine learning a plus.
• Able to critically assess statistical analyses and forecast models and suggest improvements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft, data analysis and forecast modeling applications.
• Excellent writing and verbal skills.
• Confident with presenting at industry events and speaking to customers etc.
• Capacity to speak on the record to the media about market developments.
• Able to foster and develop relationships with market participants.
• Collaborative team player.  
• The successful candidate will be proactive, pragmatic and resilient with a positive and flexible approach, focused on achieving results and the right outcome for a growing business.
• Is self-disciplined and takes pride in managing self to deliver agreed objectives.
• Personable with a preference for developing strong, collaborative working relationships.
• Demonstrates high personal energy.
• A confident and inquisitive communicator who actively listens and questions – shows a growth mind-set and naturally curious.
• Demonstrates influence with humility – can provide advice and guidance without being a ‘knower’.
• Is collaborative and able to adapt own approach and style to the situation.
• Comfortable with ambiguity – where a pathway may not be clear, thrives in working through the challenge.     
• Can balance requirements for analytical rigor with commercial imperatives of efficient, on time delivery.

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.