Strategic Markets Editor

**Company Description**
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 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, make 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 is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

The Strategic Markets Editor leverages their expertise and experience to drive Fastmarkets’ PRA strategy in the biofuels and feedstock markets by ensuring the delivery of prices and market-leading content and engagement. The SME produces deep high-level content, engages with the industry 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 and produces high-level content, including insightful market reporting, in-depth focus pieces and interviews, to drive market engagement and visibility in the battery raw materials/energy transition markets
- Helps drive presence and reputation in the biofuels and feedstock markets in which Fastmarkets aims to expand
- Identifies prices to launch and promote, including determining the specifications, methodology and data submission pool
- Works with the broader business to plan engagement and helps lead the biofuels and feedstock team to engage with market participants and exchanges, leveraging our insight to deliver commodities expertise and knowledge to our customers
- Produces, coordinates and edits a range of strategic content in a joined-up approach across markets and geographies for maximum impact
- Guides and mentors reporters and gives strategic and functional direction to the team.
- Assesses and approves prices for certain strategic markets as required, and helps to ensure all prices produced by reporters meet Fastmarkets’ and its regulators’ rigorous standards
- Aligns strategic content with marketing, and across customer interfaces: editorial, events, client presentations and meetings
- Burnishes our reputation for market-leading expertise and insight by serving as a brand ambassador at Fastmarkets’ and other events, attracting high-profile speakers, presenting at events and in meetings, and moderating panels and webinars.
- Raises our profile in social media platform to showcase our expertise and build interest

**Key interfaces**
- Partners with the Editorial Director and Managing Regional Editors to define and plan priorities for strategic content and customer engagement in a specific market group
- Engages with reporters and Editorial Operations to guide and support a joined-up approach to high-impact strategic content
- Collaborates with Events team to grow delegate list and create compelling agendas, maximising the reach and impact of content-driven events
- Aligns content approach with strategic goals of the Marketing team, ensuring consistency of message and strength of impact
- Works with product and strategy team to align and showcase the value of our content on the customer dashboard, driving adoption and engagement
- Engages with research to produce content that is aligned with internal forecasting, enhancing its relevance and value
- Partners with Editorial Operations team to guide the production of collateral that aligns seamlessly with our 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 missio