**Company Description**
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future - together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
**Job Description** The Role**
The Production Specialist plays a pivotal role in crafting impactful and engaging content in diverse formats, including newsletters, presentations, data visualizations and more. You will translate data and written content into compelling layouts, designs and graphics that highlight our expertise and consistently deliver business-critical intelligence to our customers.
**Principal Accountabilities**
- Partner with reporters, editors and other stakeholders to lay out various newsletters, reports, whitepapers and studies quickly and to the highest standards.
- Make creative suggestions about improvements to design and to processes, ensuring high visual appeal and optimal delivery 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.
- Craft impactful and visually captivating data-led presentations in PowerPoint and Canva, effectively communicating complex insights to our audience.
- Suggest and develop ways to personalize content based on user preferences and behaviour, tailoring presentations and other deliverables for maximum impact.
- Leverage automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and optimize workflows, freeing up time for strategic initiatives.
- Implement rigorous quality assurance measures to ensure all deliverables meet our brand standards and exceed client expectations.
- Champion new technologies, actively exploring and implementing innovative solutions to enhance content delivery and user engagement.
- Manage the post-production process for our podcasts, including editing, audio mixing, mastering, and integration with distribution platforms.
**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.
- You have a strong command of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro), familiarity with data visualization tools, a solid understanding of digital publishing workflows and proficiency in podcast-editing software.
- You are proficient in content management systems and online publishing protocols, including content rights management software, as well as in the Microsoft Office suite.
- You can translate complex data into clear and engaging narratives through effective visualization and design, both static and within presentations.
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment, embrace new technologies and adapt quickly to evolving cont