Conference Producer

  • Contract
  • Department: Events
  • Employment Type: Contractor

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Deliverables Bauxite & Alumina event

  • Speaker management, collecting slides and managing all communications / changes with speakers and updating the team as required
  • Replacing speaker drop outs
  • Run the event as the producer onsite
  • Provide a short summary post event and input into the debrief document
  • Running the weekly meetings and weekly catchup with your line manager
  • Updating cvent and swapcard

Deliverables Singapore Iron Ore Forum

  • Complete speaker acquisition – about 6-7 speakers remaining 
  • Liasing weekly with editorial and strategy team to ensure they are updated and we are collaborating closely
  • Working closely with Eric form SGX
  • Clear, consistent communication with all stakeholders is key as this is a strategically important event
  • Speaker management, collecting slides and managing all communications / changes with speakers and updating the team as required
  • Replacing speaker drop outs
  • Run the event as the producer onsite
  • Provide a short summary post event and input into the debrief document
  • Running the weekly meetings, sharing meeting notes and actions and weekly catchup with line manager
  • Updating cvent and swapcard

Additional Information

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.

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