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

Job Description

We are seeking a Carbon Data Manager to lead the creation, maintenance, and quality assurance of large-scale environmental datasets that drive data-driven decision-making across the organization. In this role, you will oversee data quality, governance, and reporting frameworks, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of critical business data.

As a key leader within the Data & Analytics function, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline data processes, strengthen governance practices, and advance strategic data initiatives. Your expertise will be essential in developing scalable, high-quality data solutions that enable actionable insights and business impact.

This role requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, and strategic vision to drive efficiency in data workflows, enhance data governance, and shape an enterprise-wide data strategy that supports long-term sustainability and innovation.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Data Governance & Quality Assurance:

• Define and implement data governance policies to maintain data integrity and compliance.
• Develop and oversee data validation, reconciliation, and cleansing processes.
• Monitor data quality metrics and implement strategies to improve data accuracy and consistency.

Data Management & Maintenance:

• Lead the collection, structuring, and management of large datasets from multiple sources.
• Oversee database maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization to ensure data availability and performance.
• Manage and optimize ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to streamline data workflows.

Reporting & Analytics:

• Oversee the development of high-quality dashboards and reports to support data-driven decision-making.
• Guide the team in performing exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify trends and insights.
• Ensure alignment of reporting frameworks and KPIs with business objectives.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with senior leadership, business teams, and product managers to identify and implement data-driven solutions.
• Act as a strategic advisor by providing data-driven insights to product, strategy, and customer experience teams.
• Work closely with data engineers, business analysts, and developers to enhance data pipelines and reporting capabilities.
• Support business development and decision-making through advanced data analytics.

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 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.

Essential:

• 5+ years of experience in data management, data quality assurance, or data governance.
• Proven people management skills, ability to lead and motivate teams of 3-5 people over long-term projects.
• Proven expertise in handling and maintaining large, complex datasets.
• Strong proficiency in SQL for querying, transforming, and managing structured data.
• Hands-on experience with data validation, cleansing, and quality control techniques.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, or Tableau for data visualization and reporting.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to translate complex data insights into actionable business strategies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable:

• Experience in Python or R for data analysis and automation.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and data warehousing.
• Understanding of ETL processes and automation for data pipelines.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks, compliance standards, and regulatory reporting.
• Background in economics, carbon markets, or sustainability analytics (preferred but not required).

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.

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.