Learning and Development Specialist (Hybrid) - job 1 of 2

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 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

Partnering with the Head of Learning and Development, your role will focus on helping to identifying the skills Fastmarkets needs now and in the future. You'll help to design and deliver flexible learning solutions (both digital and in-person) to meet our team's diverse needs.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Identify a tool to help identify and assess the skills and training needs across Fastmarkets.
• Help design and roll out mandatory and core skills elearning courses.
• Manage the Learning Management System (LMS).
• Track training data, and maintain the Learning & Development (L&D) dashboard.
• Coordinate training logistics, from booking venues to working with external providers.
• Play a role in designing and overseeing onboarding programmes for new hires.
• Support key learning programs like management development and leadership workshops.
• Co-facilitate workshops, including Values training and team events.
• Work closely with managers and Heads of HR to support Personal Development Plans.
• Assist in developing competency frameworks for functions.
• Support succession planning and talent mapping efforts.
• Create blended learning solutions, incorporating technical, behavioural, and wellbeing training, using digital tools for innovation.
• Oversee the UK Apprenticeship scheme, including using the levy fund for learning initiatives. and research other learning support in the global countries in which we operate
• Promote a culture of continuous professional development (CPD).
• Support and monitor individual coaching programs with both internal and external coaches.
• Evaluate training effectiveness to keep our learning offerings relevant and impactful and proactively identify interventions or changes needed.
• Keep the L&D intranet pages up to date.
• Handle any ad hoc training-related tasks as needed.

What We're Looking For:

• A passion for learning and helping others grow.
• Solid experience in Learning & Development, including LMS administration and e-learning design. Ideally you will be familiar with Articulate 360 design software.
• Experience in conducting training needs analysies.
• Tech-savvy with strong skills in MS Office (particularly Excel and Powerpoint) and data analysis.
• Experience using data to drive learning solutions and to tell a story.
• Great communication and presentation skills.
• Proactive and confident, able to tackle issues as they come up.
• High energy, drive, and resilience, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

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.

• Skilled at creating engaging e-learning content, ideally using Articulate 360
• Comfortable with data, Excel, and PowerPoint to keep the L&D dashboard of metrics up to date and looking sharp.

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.