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

The Analyst, Bulk Agriculture position is an exciting opportunity for a candidate eager to help governments and leading companies navigate the volatile bulk agriculture markets including corn, soy, wheat, and veg oils.  The analyst will play a crucial role in the team by collecting, analyzing, and delivering the data and insights our clients need to navigate the unprecedented volatility in the bulk agriculture markets. The analyst will be a key member of the team that develops Fastmarkets’ European and LATAM supply, demand and price forecast, along with the associated datasets. This individual will have responsibility for maintaining and producing regular updates to the forecast and associated written commentary. 

The ideal candidate is interested in economic and commodity market research, has a solid work ethic and personal integrity, and is intelligent and flexible. They will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude, juggle various tasks and projects, and meet deadlines. 

Principal Accountabilities

• Identifies necessary data inputs and oversees procurement, collection, cleaning, and validation for forecasting bulk agriculture commodity supply and demand in critical markets worldwide, with a specific focus on Europe. 
• Updates house forecasts for bulk agriculture commodities including supply, demand, capacity, cost, and other critical metrics. 
• Supplements forecast model with content creation on the bulk agriculture market, including regulatory policy development, supply, demand, capacity, tariffs, trade, and other trends that impact the industry. 
• Controls input to our products from internal and external contributors to guarantee timely and coherent updates for our customers. 
• Supports client and internal inquiries about the markets and is accountable for fulfilling requests for insight and data for presentations and interviews. 
• Works with the Principal Analyst on projects by interacting with clients, helping specify and design studies that meet client needs, undertaking primary and secondary research, and supporting delivery. 

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.

• Knowledge of bulk agriculture markets (corn, soy, wheat, oil seed)   
• Excellent writing and verbal English 
• Confident with presenting at industry events, clients, and internal stakeholders 
• Capacity to speak on the record to the media about market developments 
• Able to foster and develop relationships in the relevant industries and markets                                                                      Collaborative team player 
• Experience in commodity analysis, ideally in European agricultural products 
• Excellent data management skills, including fundamental knowledge of relational databases, APIs, and data automation a plus 
• Comprehensive understanding of statistical foundations, particularly regarding time-series data and forecasting 
• Strong analytical/mathematical/econometric modelling skills 
• Able to critically assess statistical analyses and forecast models and suggest improvements

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.