Exchange Data Operations Lead

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 ona hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouragingeffective 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 Exchange Data Operations Lead will work closely with the product, operations, sales and content teams as well as directly with suppliers and customers to streamline the delivery of our exchange data products, related data sets and required reporting.

The ideal candidate will have experience working within a financial information provider, with domain experience of working with exchange market data and how customers consume it.This is a new role to Fastmarkets, sitting within the newly formed product operations function, and we are looking for a self starter with operational experience in driving effective third party data management and product optimisation.

Principal Accountabilities

• Set up best practice to optimise the delivery of the third party and exchange data to our customers
• Understand current customer data needs and inform the product management team of what data onboarding is required
• Regularly monitor the data quality across all our third party sources
• Test and analyse the data we carry on a regular basis to ensure quality and consistency
• Work with technical teams to improve data quality, helping with data cleaning and validation, solving support issues for clients, and interfacing with our data providers
• Work to run a quality management dashboard to measure how accurate our services are in publishing 3rd party data – identifying key areas that need to be focused on
• Document quality expectations for 3rd party data sets and hold all groups responsible for publishing market data our products to account on quality metrics
• Own the execution of our contractual relationships with exchange partners and be accountable for ensuring our compliance with the contracts
• Ensure effective reporting is completed regarding usage of exchange data
• Help support and train the sales org in exchange data solutions and take part in customer calls as required
• Streamline communication to customers and between internal teams in relation to data changes or disruptions
• Manage customer facing exchange data product information and content in conjunction with the product management, customer success and product marketing teams
• Perform user acceptance testing of new or amended data sets to ensure quality and consistency
  
  

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.

• Excellent spoken and written English is required
• Strong domain knowledge of exchange data and related information sets, market data feeds and systems, and real time, end of day and derived data
• Understanding of FIX, SBE and other message formats used by Exchanges
• Strong understanding of commodity markets and market participants
• A good understanding of the commercial landscape of the ownership, licensing and distribution of market data
• Ability to effectively articulate requirements to internal technical and operational teams to improve and implement data delivery and quality
• Ability to work with large data sets in appropriating tooling
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

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.

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.