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

We are seeking a talented and creative Graphic Designer specialised in event marketing to join our team. In your role, you will oversee the entire design process -- from concept development to execution – creating content that aligns with our brand identity and resonates with our audience. You'll be the guardian of our brand aesthetics, maintaining our high-quality standards and reinforcing our brand consistency.  

You will be a pivotal part of our event team, collaborating closely with stakeholders across the business. Your designs will not only surpass project briefs but also inspire our sales, marketing, operations and production teams. 

Your mission is to continuously monitor and optimize our design campaigns. Using your analytical skills, you'll turn data into actionable insights, driving continuous improvement and enhancing customer engagement.  

In this fast-paced environment, your passion, motivation, and flexibility will be key. As a team player, you'll nurture relationships with external production and design agencies, contributing to the delivery of successful campaigns.  

In essence, your role as a Digital Designer is to craft visual stories that inform our customers, build trust in our brand, and motivate action. Through your creativity and expertise, you will play an integral role in shaping our brand narrative and driving our business forward.  

Principal Accountabilities

• Produce artwork for event campaigns that can be adapted across the whole event cycle – so pre-event online campaigns, website elements through to the onsite branding experience  

• Designing portfolio branding to bring a cohesive approach to how customers experience Fastmarkets events 

• Oversee the entire design process. From concept development to execution, ensure every design element aligns with our brand identity and resonates with our audience. Implementing efficient workflows, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality assets  

• Design creative elements with the marketing team specific to the channels they are being used on 

• Uphold Fastmarkets’ high-quality standards, ensuring all designs surpass project briefs and align with our brand guidelines, plus give input into event-specific brand guidelines  

• Monitor the performance of our design campaigns, reporting on key metrics, and optimizing strategies based on the results 

• Develop and implement branding strategies for events, including theme development, logo design, colour schemes, and visual identity guidelines. 

• Collaborate with the event operations team on onsite branding, design templates and signage. Ensuring that each event aligns with our brand identity and delivers a memorable experience for attendees.  

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.

• Progressive experience in design, demonstrable experience in leading design within B2B marketing and delivery 

• Experience in events design is strongly preferred  

• Excellent graphic design and storytelling skills  

• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels  

• Proficiency in creating multimedia content, including video, interactive designs and data visualization 

• Strong understanding of design principles, color theory, typography, and brand consistency 

• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Figma, and other design tools 

• Collaborative team player, able to work effectively with various stakeholders across the company  

• Experience working with external partners to deliver designs 

• Experience in building an effective design strategy and operation  

• Fluent in marketing measurements and using marketing metrics in optimizing designs 

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.