Product Director, Data and Analytics (Hybrid)

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

Data and Analytics Product Director is a newly redefined role that plays a critical part in Fastmarkets’ evolution and growth trajectory. As a leader in the Product function, you will have the exciting opportunity to shape and build innovative products that meet the changing needs of our customers.  

This role is not just about managing existing portfolio of offerings; it’s about envisioning and creating new solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies, including Generative AI and Advanced Analytics, to enhance our product portfolio. In this role, you will sharpen your commercial skills while navigating the complexities of end commodity markets. Your strategic insights and leadership will be instrumental in driving profitability and market relevance for Fastmarkets, making this role vital to the next stage of our growth.  

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES 

• Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy for portfolio of products under remit, aligning with the company’s overall vision and informed by market analysis 

• Product Portfolio Management: Actively manage product portfolio for key commercial, strategic and customer outcomes (e.g. product P&L, usage), including driving product innovation, launching new products, discontinuing unviable products 

• Market Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of end commodity markets to identify trends, opportunities, and competitive landscape, ensuring the product portfolio remains relevant and innovative. 

• Commercial Acumen: Leverage strong business insights to drive product decisions, pricing strategies, and go-to-market plans that maximize revenue and market share. 

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with content (Editorial, Analytics) marketing, and sales to ensure successful product development and launch, fostering a collaborative environment that drives results. 

• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate product vision and strategy to internal stakeholders and external partners, ensuring alignment and buy-in across all levels of the organization. 

• Team Development: Mentor and lead a team of product managers, BAs and Data scientists fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. 

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.

• ducation: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred. 

• Experience: Minimum of 8 years of experience in product management or related roles within a B2B environment, with at least 3 years in a leadership position. Proven track record of successfully launching and managing multiple products throughout their lifecycle. 

• Strategic Acumen: Strong understanding of market dynamics, customer needs, and competitive landscapes. Ability to think strategically while also managing day-to-day operations. 

• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated experience in leading high-performing teams. Exceptional mentoring abilities with a focus on developing talent within the organization. 

• Analytical Expertise: Proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Excel) with a strong ability to interpret complex data sets and translate findings into actionable strategies. 

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences at all levels of the organization. 

• Problem-Solving Orientation: Strong analytical thinking with a proactive approach to identifying challenges and developing innovative solutions. 

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.