Consultant Metals

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate eager to help leading companies navigate and succeed in the fast-changing base metals steel and ferro-alloys markets.

The consultant will support and partner with other members of the consulting and research teams focusing on delivering custom consulting and research projects that span the base metals steel and ferro-alloys markets. Specifically you will deliver projects that include tailored market overviews and outlooks feasibility assessments and analysis industry cost modelling and analysis supply-chain mapping and material sourcing strategies and other bespoke engagements.

You will be joining a dynamic global team dedicated to understanding the rapidly evolving base steel and ferro-alloys markets. You will leverage Fastmarkets existing data insights and analyst team as an integral component of our consulting delivery.

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.

Principal accountabilities

• Executing and project managing a range of market related consultancy projects
• Conducting new research and analysing and customising existing data (self-sufficiently and in collaboration with other subject-matter experts) that is robust accurate and well-researched.
• Updating and customizing house forecasts including supply demand capacity cost and other critical metrics.
• Developing and delivering compelling and impactful high-quality content and deliverables with a strong client focus.
• Ensuring consultancy projects are delivered on-time and in-line with both client requirements project scope and profit targets.
• Supporting and working closely with the sales team in bidding and winning consultancy engagements.
• Utilising professional networks to surface opportunities and to source independent contractors to support delivery of engagements.

Key interfaces

• Consultancy Director
• Heads of Base Metals and Steel
• Consulting sales
• Commodity Analysts
• Research Analysts

Qualifications :

We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were 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.

• 4 years of consulting or related experience in commodities consulting and research.
• Knowledge of base metals steel and/or ferro-alloys markets.
• Ability and experience in managing and conducting commodity market studies both independently and as a member of a globally distributed team.
• Experience in project execution/management involving single-client consultancy services work.
• Experience in client relationship management.
• Effective and confident communication in person in written/slide format and online.
• Fluent in English a second language preferred.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel when required.
• Self-starter with strong personal drive is essential with the ability to thrive in a multitasking environment.
• Accountable and performance driven.
• Effective and amiable team player keen on making clients project members and colleagues happy while achieving ambitious objectives.

If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information :

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its 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 theyre 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.

Youve read a little about us now its over to you!

If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.

Its 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 youre great.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time