Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

The Role

• As a Commercial Operations Analyst, you will support the Commercial Operations team by turning data into actionable insights, maintaining reports and dashboards, and helping streamline sales processes. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our sales organisation has the tools and information needed to succeed.

Principal Accountabilities

• · Assist in maintaining and improving sales reporting, forecasting, and pipeline analysis.
• · Support the creation and evolution of dashboards and KPIs for sales leaders.
• · Help identify trends, risks, and opportunities in sales data.
• · Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Finance to ensure data accuracy and process alignment.
• · Contribute to projects such as territory mapping, quota tracking, and incentive analysis.
• · Promote effective use of CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce) and support adoption efforts.
• · Contribute to process improvement initiatives and automation projects.

KEY INTERFACES

• · Commercial/Revenue Operations Managers
• · Sales Leaders and Directors
• · Marketing
• · Commercial Finance
• · CRM and Data Teams

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.

• · 1–2 years of experience in data analysis, business operations, or a similar role
• · Strong Excel skills; familiarity with Power BI or similar tools is a plus.
• · Understanding of CRM systems (Salesforce preferred).
• · Comfortable working with data and translating it into clear, actionable insights.
• · Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• · Organised and able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have:

• · Exposure to SaaS or subscription-based businesses.
• · Familiarity with data visualisation tools

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.