Consultant / Senior Consultant - Metals

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. 

We are recruiting a Senior Consultant to manage and deliver consulting engagements for clients across steel and steel raw material markets, working with Fastmarkets’ sector experts, modelling and research teams. You will combine strong analysis with clear advice to help clients make commercial and strategic decisions.

The role involves some international travel.

Job purpose

The Senior Consultant is responsible for delivering bespoke market consulting projects and helping win new work for clients across steel and steel raw material markets. This is an individual contributor role with project leadership responsibilities.

Principal accountabilities

• Manages consulting engagements or workstreams from scoping through delivery, providing strategic, due diligence and market forecasting services while managing scope, timelines, budgets and quality
• Designs and conducts robust market research and analysis using appropriate methods, primary research and Fastmarkets’ data, drawing on sector experts and specialist modelling support where needed
• Produces clear client reports and recommendations, and leads client presentations and workshops
• Manages day-to-day client relationships during delivery and coordinates analysts and sector experts contributing to projects
• Leads proposal development, contributes to scoping and pricing with senior consulting and commercial colleagues, and identifies new and follow-on opportunities
• Represents Fastmarkets at industry events and conferences, working with Sales, Marketing and Events colleagues to build relationships and generate consulting opportunities
• Contributes analysis, data and insights from consulting work to support subscription products and improve Fastmarkets’ market data and knowledge
• Uses AI and analytical tools appropriately to improve delivery efficiency, develops reusable approaches and shares relevant insights across Analytics

Key interfaces

• Works with Consulting, sector teams, Modelling, Research and Commercial colleagues to deliver client projects, develop opportunities and share relevant market insights

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.

• Proven experience delivering market consulting projects in steel, steel raw materials or closely related commodity markets, independently and with colleagues across locations
• Strong analytical skills, including experience applying supply and demand analysis and forecasting to client questions, with the judgement to select appropriate methods and draw on specialist modelling expertise
• Ability to build industry contacts for research and identify commercial opportunities
• Strong focus on client and project deadlines, with excellent time management, project management and organisational skills
• Proven ability to build and maintain excellent client relationships that generate repeat business
• Ability to communicate analysis and recommendations clearly and concisely in writing and through client presentations
• An established network of contacts across the steel and steel raw material industry is desirable

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.