Job Description

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 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.

The Role

Critical minerals and rare earths markets are becoming increasingly important to the global economy, underpinning the energy transition, advanced manufacturing, technological innovation and supply-chain resilience. As demand grows for materials used in batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, semiconductors and defence applications, these markets are becoming more strategically significant for industry, governments and investors alike. This creates a strong opportunity for Fastmarkets to deepen its pricing, content and market engagement in this fast-evolving space.

The Strategic Markets Editor leverages deep expertise and experience in critical minerals, including rare earths markets, to help shape Fastmarkets’ PRA strategy in this area, driving the development of prices, market-leading content and industry engagement. The role produces high-value strategic content, builds senior market relationships and acts as an ambassador for the Fastmarkets brand. A pivotal role at the heart of Fastmarkets editorial, this is a highly collaborative leadership position without direct line management responsibilities.

Principal accountabilities

• Identifies opportunities for and produces high-value strategic content, including insightful market reporting, in-depth analysis, interviews and commentary, to drive market engagement and strengthen Fastmarkets’ profile in rare earths and the wider critical minerals space
• Helps expand Fastmarkets’ presence and reputation in critical minerals markets where the business aims to grow
• Identifies opportunities for new price launches and product development, including helping to determine specifications, methodology and data submission pools
• Works with the broader business to plan market engagement and helps lead efforts to strengthen relationships with market participants, using Fastmarkets’ insight and expertise to deliver value to customers
• Produces, coordinates and edits strategic content across markets and geographies in a joined-up way to maximise impact
• Shares knowledge widely, guides and mentors reporters, strengthens market understanding across the team and helps colleagues build their own profile, while providing strategic and functional direction
• Assesses and approves prices as required, helping to ensure all prices produced by reporters meet Fastmarkets’ and relevant regulatory standards
• Aligns strategic content with marketing and across customer-facing channels, including editorial, events, client presentations and meetings
• Strengthens Fastmarkets’ reputation for market-leading expertise and insight by serving as a brand ambassador at Fastmarkets and external events, attracting high-profile speakers and moderating panels
• Helps raise Fastmarkets’ profile across external channels, including social media, to showcase expertise and build market interest

Key interfaces

• Partners with the Editorial Director and Regional Editors to define and plan priorities for strategic content and customer engagement
• Engages with reporters and Editorial Operations to guide and support a joined-up approach to high-impact strategic content
• Collaborates with the Events team to grow delegate lists and create compelling agendas, maximising the reach and impact of content-led events
• Aligns content strategy with the goals of the Marketing team, ensuring consistency of message and strength of impact
• Works with Product and Strategy teams to align and showcase the value of content through customer-facing products and platforms, driving adoption and engagement
• Engages with Research to produce content aligned with internal forecasting and market insight, enhancing relevance and value
• Partners with Editorial Operations to support the production of collateral that aligns with marketing strategy for maximum efficiency and impact

Qualifications

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 passionate about being part of a fast-paced, successful team. The successful candidate will be a strong team player, comfortable working flexibly and operating effectively across a global, matrixed organisation.

• Strong expertise in critical minerals markets, including rare earths
• Experience of working in a PRA and/or in commodity markets
• Excellent journalism and editing skills
• A strong network of contacts and credible, relevant industry relationships
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, share expertise, mentor junior colleagues and build strong working relationships across teams
• Strong understanding of pricing, price discovery and methodology, with the ability to contribute to benchmark development and market engagement
• Ability to operate effectively at senior levels internally within a matrix management structure and externally with market participants and other stakeholders
• Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to identify market opportunities, emerging trends and areas for growth
• Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to assess market developments, customer needs and competitive dynamics
• Sound commercial awareness and the ability to connect editorial and pricing activity to broader business priorities
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively not just with editorial colleagues, but with product, events, marketing, research and commercial teams
• Strong project management and organisational skills, with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
• Adaptability and resilience, with the ability to respond to changing market conditions and business needs
• Strong influencing skills, including the ability to lead through expertise and credibility in teams without direct reporting lines
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and persuasively to both internal and external audiences
• High levels of integrity, sound judgement and commitment to ethical decision-making

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

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.