Key Account Manager

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 Hybrid Key Account Manager is responsible for driving new‑logo acquisition while also managing and growing a defined portfolio of key accounts. This role combines outbound new‑business development with long‑term account ownership, delivering sustainable revenue growth through a balanced focus on acquisition, expansion, renewal and churn reduction.

The role engages senior stakeholders across procurement, supply chain, category management, cost engineering, sustainability and operations, supporting customers as they navigate raw‑material cost volatility, supply‑chain risk, regulatory pressure and sustainability commitments. Success requires strong commercial judgement, disciplined pipeline management, consultative selling skills and the ability to translate complex market challenges into compelling Fastmarkets solutions.

Fastmarkets values how we grow as much as how much we grow. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proactive, customer‑centric approach, strong internal collaboration and the ability to lead value‑based conversations with insight and credibility across both new and existing customers.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

New Business & Market Development

• Own the full end‑to‑end new‑business sales cycle, from prospecting and discovery through to close.
• Build and convert a high‑quality pipeline aligned to defined new‑business ARR targets.
• Execute disciplined outbound strategies across priority sectors and accounts.
• Engage senior stakeholders including Heads of Procurement, Supply Chain Leaders, Category Managers, Sustainability and Cost Engineering leaders.
• Qualify and progress inbound enquiries using a structured, consultative discovery approach.

Key Account Management & Growth

• Manage and grow a defined book of key accounts, balancing renewal, retention, cross‑sell and upsell opportunities.
• Create and execute account plans aligned to customer priorities, exposure to underlying markets and growth potential.
• Drive sustainable organic growth while actively managing churn risk.
• Lead renewal discussions, value reviews and commercial negotiations with clarity and structure.

Sales Excellence & Forecasting

• Run a repeatable, value‑led sales process grounded in customer outcomes and market drivers.
• Maintain high standards of CRM hygiene, forecasting accuracy and pipeline discipline in Salesforce.
• Ensure all opportunities are correctly qualified, staged and progressed in line with internal methodology.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Editorial, Product, Pricing, Marketing and subject‑matter experts to deliver tailored solutions, demos and proposals.
• Translate complex market intelligence into clear, commercially relevant narratives for customers.
• Contribute insights from the field to inform product development and go‑to‑market strategy.

Personal Development & Contribution

• Take ownership of continuous learning across Fastmarkets products, customer markets and industry trends.
• Actively contribute to team performance, sharing best practice and supporting a high‑performance sales culture.

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 a highly motivated, commercially driven individual with a strong customer mindset and the ability to operate confidently across both new‑business acquisition and account management.

Essential

• Proven experience in B2B sales, managing and growing complex accounts while also delivering new‑logo wins.
• Strong consultative, value‑led selling capability with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing a meaningful book of business and delivering accurate forecasting.
• Excellent pipeline management, outbound discipline and CRM usage.
• Ability to understand and articulate customer value in complex, data‑ or SaaS‑led solutions.

Preferred

• Experience selling market intelligence, data, SaaS or subscription‑based solutions.
• Familiarity with commodities‑linked, industrial, energy‑transition or supply‑chain‑exposed customer environments.
• Understanding of themes such as supply‑chain risk, raw‑material volatility, regulatory pressure and sustainability.

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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