Research Analyst

Company Description

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. 

Job Description

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate, early in their career and eager to support leading companies and governments in navigating the critical minerals and metals markets.

The Research Analyst will be responsible for the collection, automation, cleaning, analysis and validation of data related to critical minerals and metals supply chains. Your efforts will make a real difference in helping Fastmarkets to achieve its ambitious growth plans and expand its critical minerals and metals coverage.

You will be joining a dynamic global team of researchers dedicated to understanding the rapidly evolving critical minerals and metals markets. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude and can juggle a wide variety of tasks and projects. An exceptional candidate will look for opportunities to automate data collection and processing workflows, improving the speed and scalability of our research output.

You will have the chance to work closely with commodity analysts, consultants, project managers and data scientists — building valuable skills that can help you grow into one of these disciplines over time.

Principal Accountabilities

• Collect, maintain, and produce data to support understanding of critical minerals and metals production across key regions
• Monitor regulatory developments — trade policies, tariffs, incentives, and environmental regulations — and analyse their impact on the critical minerals and metals value chain
• Map and analyse market relationships, including ownership structures, offtake agreements, and key supply-chain dynamics across the critical minerals and metals industry
• Collaborate with the consulting team to provide data, analysis and research support for client-facing advisory projects
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate data collection, cleaning and validation processes using scripting, APIs or other tools

Qualifications

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.

• Degree or experience in a relevant discipline (geology, mining, metallurgy, engineering, industrial manufacturing, economics or business)
• Strong primary and secondary research skills with the ability to critically assess data quality
• Proficiency with common office and productivity tools; experience with databases, scripting languages, or AI-assisted workflows is a strong plus
• Experience or familiarity with the mining industry, manufacturing, production and recycling
• Foundational understanding of business analysis and economic concepts
• Verbal and written English fluency
• Comfortable working in a diverse, multicultural team
• Proactive, pragmatic and resilient

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

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.

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.

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