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, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Web Performance Associate to join our growing team. In this exciting role, you will play a critical part in ensuring our web-based platforms remain accessible, reliable, and lightning-fast to users across the globe. If you're passionate about technology, front-end optimizations, and delivering outstanding user experiences.

• Improved website lead flow to help contribute to Fastmarkets commercial targets.
• Improved website user experience, ensuring fast page load times and an accessible, user-friendly experience for all
• Support web manager with creation of stakeholder best practices and workflows.
• Ongoing evaluation and implementation of web performance best practices, keeping pace with industry developments and innovations

Principal Accountabilities

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify, measure, and optimize key web performance metrics
• Utilize WordPress proficiency to troubleshoot performance issues and devise innovative solutions to consistently deliver a high-quality user experience.
• Support on-page and off-page SEO efforts by identifying ranking opportunities and implementing technical fixes.
• Implement responsive designs across varying device types, browsers, and connection speeds
• Regularly monitor and assess web analytics and trends, proactively identifying areas for continuous improvement
• Contribute to documentation and reference materials that facilitate a shared understanding of web performance best practices among team members
• Stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies in web performance and related fields
• Act as a champion for web performance within the company, advocating for best practices and identifying potential opportunities for improvement

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.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in web performance optimization and/or front-end development
• Experience with Wordpress
• Experience with Google analytics 4
• In-depth knowledge of web performance best practices, tools, and techniques (e.g., PageSpeed Insights, WebPagetest, Lighthouse)
• Proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• An analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with Google search console
• Familiarity with web accessibility standards (WCAG, ADA, Section 508)
• A solid understanding of networking, server infrastructure, and cloud technologies

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.