Project Manager (Hybrid) (FTC 10 months)

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

The Project Manager (PM) will be a key member of a project team to implement a new Content Management System (CMS) to replace multiple legacy CMS. They will work with a broad stakeholder group of internal Fastmarkets teams, the product vendor and implementation partner to deliver the target state and business benefits. They will also lead discovery work to shape the next project phase of this multi-year initiative.

During the first phase, they will lead every stage of the project lifecycle through:

Principal Accountabilities

• Discovery
• Design
• Configuration
• Integration
• Migration
• Testing
• Rollout
• Post go-live support

This role demands a combination of strong project management and technical skills, vendor management and the ability to navigate the complexities of a dynamic environment from both a technology and stakeholder perspective.

Key Interfaces

• · Global Head of Editorial and Pricing
• · Global Head of Analytics
• · Head of Content and Pricing Operations
• · Pricing and Content Operations Specialists and Production Specialists
• · Editors, Reporters, Analysts and Economists
• · Product Directors
• · Product Managers
• · Product Owner
• · Engineering Managers
• · IT Operations
• · Information Security officers
• · Site Reliability Engineering
• · Program Managers
• · Business Analysts
• · Software Engineers
• · QAs
• · Scrum Masters

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.

Fundamentals

• Ability to demonstrate extensive commercial experience as a Project Manager delivering technology and business change solutions across a wide range of projects.
• Experience of implementing CMS – preferably headless and Kontent.ai - and content creation.
• Experience of managing projects with third parties including technology vendors and implementation partners.
• Experience of large-volume data migration from legacy to new applications.

General skills

• Business knowledge of news, pricing and commodities.
• Ability to operate within different environments and work with varied processes and stakeholders.
• Mindset of collaboration and teamwork for delivery as part of remote teams and able to build relationships with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to produce high-quality documentation appropriate for business and technical stakeholders.
• Able to regularly and clearly communicate status, risks and issues as input to Programme and Board reporting and engage in open and honest conversations on delivery challenges with members of the Senior Leadership Team, peers and junior colleagues.
• Experience of running senior stakeholder and vendor meetings e.g., scoping/discovery workshops, steering committee meetings and workshops to facilitate decision making.
• Experience of implementing and managing change control to ensure delivery within the agreed time, cost and quality.
• Strong leadership qualities: respectful, inclusive, approachable, collaborative,
• engaging and professional.
• Ability to work independently and to motivate teams and drive outcomes.
• Ensure nothing falls through the cracks in terms of deliverables by internal and external parties and take ownership where tasks are ambiguous.

Technology

• Experience of the end-to-end software development lifecycle and able to demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of SaaS integrations with Azure-based cloud infrastructure.
• Considers information security and compliance requirements and rigorously tracks their implementation.
• Experience of working in a hybrid Waterfall and Agile delivery environment. Previous experience acting as a Scrum Master to facilitate Scrum events is desirable.
• Practical experience of using tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence and Miro

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.