Production Specialist (Remote)

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. 

The Role

Create impactful and engaging content across various formats, including newsletters, presentations, data visualizations, and more. Using your experience of a year or more in layout and design, you will transform data and written content into compelling layouts, designs, and graphics that showcase our expertise, consistently delivering business-critical intelligence to our customers. You will also embrace and implement new production technologies and workflows to optimize efficiency and enhance the visual appeal of our outputs.

​​​​PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Content Design & Development

• Partner with reporters, analysts, economists and editors and other stakeholders to efficiently lay out newsletters, reports, whitepapers and studies, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and visual appeal.
• Bring enthusiasm and a willingness to learn by making creative suggestions to improve design and streamline processes, enhancing the visual impact and effectiveness of our business-critical prices and forecasts.
• Design eye-catching and informative charts, graphs and infographics that transform complex data into actionable insights for our users.

Process Improvement & Efficiency

• Learn and utilize automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and optimize workflows, freeing up time for more creative initiatives.
• Implement quality assurance measures to ensure all deliverables meet our brand standards and exceed client expectations.
• Explore and implement innovative solutions to enhance content delivery and user engagement.
• Suggest and develop ways to personalize content based on user preferences and behavior, tailoring presentations and other deliverables for maximum impact.

KEY INTERFACES

• You report into the Production Team Leader.
• You work closely with cross-functional teams, contributing to a supportive environment that encourages learning and knowledge-sharing and maximizes team performance.
• You cultivate strong working relationships with reporters, editors, researchers and analysts based on your willingness to learn and contribute effectively.
• You are receptive to mentoring and coaching from colleagues, developing your skills supporting and team efforts to improve consistency and operational efficiency.

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.

• Approximately one year of experience in a related role.
• A strong command of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro) and familiarity with data visualization tools is a must.
• You can translate complex data into clear, engaging narratives through effective visualization and design, both in static formats and presentations.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, embrace new technologies, and quickly adapt to evolving content demands.
• You work effectively with editors, designers and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality content on time.
• You boast creative problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• You respond positively to change, adapting quickly to evolving business priorities.
• You are skilled in building strong working relationships with other teams, utilizing excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• You are fluent in English.

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.

This opportunity is available to applicants based in the following states:
•    Florida
•    Georgia
•    Illinois
•    Massachusetts*
•    North Carolina
•    New Hampshire*
•    New Jersey*
•    New York*
•    Oregon*
•    Pennsylvania
•    Tennessee*
•    Texas
•    California
•    Colorado
* Denotes states with office locations to support hybrid working

You can see that  on a map here: US Hiring States

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.