Ferro-Alloys And Steel Analyst

About Fastmarkets

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 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, making 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 was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

JOB PURPOSE

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate eager to help leading companies and governments navigate the volatile landscape of the global ferro-alloys markets as well as the steel and Steelmaking raw materials industries in the transition to a low carbon, sustainable future by collecting, analyzing and delivering the data and insights that our clients need.

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced candidate who will be responsible for the collection, analysis and delivery of forecasts related to the global ferro-alloys and Steel markets. Your efforts will make a real difference in helping Fastmarkets to achieve its ambitious growth plans and grow the steel research practice.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude, advice and can juggle a wide variety of tasks and projects.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Develops, produces and updates house ferro-alloy short-term forecast model and associated commentary and data.
• Supplements forecast model with content creation on the alloys and associated steel product and raw materials markets, capacity development, regulatory policy development, supply, demand, trade and other trends that impact the industry.
• Controls input to our products from internal and external contributors to guarantee timely and coherent updates for our customers.
• Manages client and internal enquiries about the markets and accountable for fulfilment of requests for insight and data for presentations and interviews. Strives to be the go-to resource for ferro-alloys analysis in Fastmarkets.
• Analyzes technology innovations in the green steel (reduced carbon) space as it relates to ferro-alloys production and usage.
• Identifies necessary data inputs and partners with Research Analyst(s) to procure, collect, clean, and validate data for use in our forecast models.
• Determines the feasibility and commercial viability of new product forecasts and coverage and then develops the forecast models and analysis to go to market.

Key interfaces

• Working with product management on the development of market-driven product.
• Sales, Marketing, and Events in order to promote content and products and support client queries.
• Interacts with Editorial and pricing team to provide quotes and insights for news content.

Knowledge, experience and skills

• In-depth knowledge of markets including steel, stainless steel, vanadium, tungsten, silico-manganese, ferro-manganese, chrome, and molybdenum.
• Excellent writing and verbal skills
• Confident with presenting at industry events, etc.
• Capacity to speak on the record to the media about market developments
• Able to foster and develop relationships in the relevant industry
• Collaborative team player
• In depth experience in commodity analysis, ideally in the relevant field of research
• Excellent data management skills. Fundamental knowledge of relational databases, APIs and data automation.
• Comprehensive understanding of statistical foundations, particularly with regards to time series data and forecasting.

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.

Location: Sao Paulo - Brazil, Sofia - Bulgaria, London - England.

Contract type: Full time, permanent, hybrid