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.

Fastmarkets is seeking a proactive, commercially minded Talent Acquisition Partner to support the attraction, recruitment, and hiring of top talent across our global business. This role plays a critical part in delivering workforce plans by building strong partnerships with hiring managers, understanding future talent needs, and developing effective recruitment strategies that ensure we attract and secure high-quality candidates.

Operating in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment, the Talent Acquisition Partner will take a consultative approach to recruitment, acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior stakeholders. Success in this role requires a strong understanding of workforce planning, talent market trends, candidate engagement, and data-driven recruitment practices.

The ideal candidate will be highly relationship-focused, naturally curious, and proactive in building talent pipelines rather than reacting to vacancies as they arise. They will thrive in ambiguity, enjoy collaborating across teams, and be passionate about delivering an exceptional candidate experience while supporting the business's long-term talent strategy.

Principal Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Delivery

• Partner with hiring managers to plan, attract, assess, and hire internal and external talent across junior, intermediate, and multi-incumbent roles.
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including briefing meetings, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding support.
• Conduct telephone, virtual, and face-to-face interviews, ensuring a professional and consistent candidate experience.
• Develop a deep understanding of business functions, organisational structure, and workforce plans to anticipate hiring requirements and support future talent needs.
• Reduce reliance on external recruitment agencies through effective direct sourcing and talent pipeline development.

Talent Pipelining & Market Mapping

• Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines for key business functions and future hiring requirements.
• Create compelling job advertisements, social media campaigns, and sourcing strategies that strengthen employer brand visibility and attract diverse talent.
• Utilise multiple sourcing channels, networking opportunities, referrals, and talent communities to identify and engage high-quality candidates.
• Conduct market mapping and competitor analysis to understand talent availability, market trends, and hiring challenges.

Stakeholder Partnership & Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and business leaders, providing guidance on recruitment best practices, market conditions, candidate availability, and hiring strategies.
• Coach hiring managers on effective interviewing, selection methodologies, candidate assessment, diversity considerations, and inclusive hiring practices.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, HR colleagues, and business stakeholders to ensure recruitment activities align with workforce planning priorities.
• Challenge and influence stakeholders where appropriate to ensure effective and objective hiring decisions.

Recruitment Analytics & Continuous Improvement

• Support the Head of Talent Acquisition in maintaining recruitment dashboards and reporting metrics.
• Analyse recruitment data and provide insights to support decision-making, improve hiring outcomes, and identify areas for process improvement.
• Monitor key recruitment metrics including time-to-hire, source effectiveness, candidate conversion, diversity metrics, and hiring manager satisfaction.
• Continuously review recruitment processes and recommend enhancements to improve efficiency, candidate experience, and hiring quality.

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure all recruitment activities comply with relevant employment legislation, company policies, and recruitment governance standards.
• Maintain accurate recruitment documentation and ensure all records are appropriately stored and managed.
• Support fair, objective, and legally defensible hiring decisions through the use of structured and unbiased recruitment practices.

Candidate Experience & Employer Brand

• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Act as a brand ambassador for Fastmarkets, ensuring all candidate interactions reflect the organisation's values and culture.
• Maintain ongoing engagement with candidates, creating talent communities and fostering long-term relationships for future opportunities.

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 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.

Essential

• Proven experience as an in-house recruiter or Talent Acquisition Partner within a fast-paced commercial organisation.
• Strong experience managing end-to-end recruitment across multiple functions and geographies.
• Demonstrated ability to build talent pipelines and proactively source candidates for current and future hiring needs.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and influencing hiring decisions.
• Strong understanding of workforce planning and the ability to align recruitment activity with business objectives.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Experience using recruitment metrics and data to drive hiring decisions and process improvements.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment best practices, candidate assessment methodologies, and inclusive hiring approaches.

Desirable

• Experience recruiting globally across multiple regions and markets.
• Experience within information services, professional services, media, events, financial services, or subscription-based businesses.
• Familiarity with talent intelligence, market mapping, and employer branding initiatives.
• Experience with ATS platforms and recruitment technology solutions.

Behavioural Competencies

Commercially Focused

• Understands the commercial drivers of the business and aligns recruitment activity to organisational growth objectives.
• Makes informed decisions based on business priorities and workforce requirements.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of talent market dynamics and their impact on hiring outcomes.

Proactive & Forward Thinking

• Anticipates future talent requirements and builds pipelines ahead of demand.
• Takes ownership and drives recruitment activity with urgency and purpose.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and acts on them.

Relationship Builder

• Develops trusted partnerships across all levels of the organisation.
• Collaborates effectively with stakeholders to achieve hiring objectives.
• Builds strong external networks to enhance talent attraction efforts.

Resilient & Adaptable

• Thrives in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Remains focused and effective when managing competing priorities.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and finding practical solutions.

Influencing & Communication

• Communicates confidently and credibly with stakeholders at all levels.
• Coaches and guides hiring managers with professionalism and empathy.
• Demonstrates influence through expertise, collaboration, and trust rather than authority.

Curious & Growth Mindset

• Naturally inquisitive and continuously seeks to learn and improve.
• Uses market intelligence and data to inform decisions.
• Embraces feedback and adapts approaches to improve outcomes.

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.