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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

At Fastmarkets, the Pricing Operations Specialists ensure Fastmarkets’ price-discovery teams can produce trusted, industry-defining benchmarks by upholding the highest standards of integrity and compliance in our pricing workflows. They champion smarter, simpler and more innovative ways of working, using automation, better tools and improved processes to empower colleagues and elevate our collective performance. By enabling teams with reliable systems, clear guidance and operational excellence, they help Fastmarkets deliver world-class market data and insights that power our users’ businesses.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Pricing Governance & Compliance:

• Ensure pricing workflows and operational practices adhere to Fastmarkets’ compliance framework and regulatory obligations, including IOSCO principles.
• Master the use of pricing tools, such as our internal pricing database, to enable Fastmarkets’ reporting teams to conduct accurate and reliable price discovery.
• Identify and escalate compliance risks related to pricing operations and proactively implement preventative controls.

Process Improvement & Efficiency:

• Work with the wider pricing operations team to review and streamline processes, reduce manual interventions and embed automation into recurring workflows.
• Partner with technology and data teams to help design, test and implement system enhancements,
• Continuously evaluate pricing processes to identify areas for innovation and improvement, ensuring they remain aligned with regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Support post-implementation reviews to ensure improvements are delivering measurable impact and efficiency gains.

Data Integrity & Reporting:

• Safeguard the accuracy, consistency and reliability of all pricing data across systems, maintaining rigorous quality control standards.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies in pricing data and workflows in partnership with other teams, ensuring that root causes are identified and addressed.
• Regularly carry out integrity assessments of pricing data and reporting processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary adjustments.

Training & Development:

• Contribute to the creation and upkeep of operational documentation, including SOPs, training materials and system guides.
• Deliver training to editorial and operations colleagues on pricing tools, compliance standards and process improvements.
• Share knowledge and best practice across teams to promote operational excellence, efficiency and compliance awareness.

KEY INTERFACES

• You will work with a global team of around six to seven people.
• You will ensure prices are published to the right channels through the right procedures.
• You will enable the editorial team, helping prices meet industry regulatory standards.
• You will work closely with editorial, analytics, marketing, compliance and product teams to drive the alignment of and adherence to best practices, and to continually improve those best practices.

Please note, this is a full time, fixed term position, starting at 11am (BRT) each day

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.

• You are a determined problem-solver willing to think outside the box to maximize outcomes.
• You have a keen eye for detail, ensuring accuracy and precision in all tasks to maintain high-quality outcomes.
• You are adept at handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• You are goal-oriented rather than task-oriented, understanding that each short-term project that you lead or delegate must support our long-term strategy; and shape workflow for maximum efficiency accordingly.
• You are responsive, particularly to change, adapting positively and helping and inspiring others to adjust to our evolving business priorities.
• You forge and foster solid working relationships with an array of departments, building consensus through intelligence, empathy and good judgment.
• You have a firm understanding of commodities, exchanges and markets around the world.

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.

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.

Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets

We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.

Specific benefits may vary by country and role.

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.