Senior Designer (Hybrid)

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

In your role, you will oversee the entire design process — from concept development to execution – creating content that aligns with our brand identity and resonates with our audience. You’ll be the guardian of our brand aesthetics, maintaining our high-quality standards and reinforcing our brand consistency.

You will be a pivotal part of our digital content production team, collaborating closely with stakeholders across the business. Your designs will not only surpass project briefs but also inspire our sales, marketing, product development, and editorial teams.

Your mission is to continuously monitor and optimise our design campaigns. Using your analytical skills, you’ll turn data into actionable insights, driving continuous improvement and enhancing customer engagement.

In this fast-paced environment, your passion, motivation, and flexibility will be key. As a team player, you’ll nurture relationships with external production and design agencies, contributing to the delivery of successful campaigns.

In essence, your role as a Senior Designer is to craft visual stories that inform our customers, build trust in our brand, and motivate action. Through your creativity and expertise, you will play an integral role in shaping our brand narrative and driving our business forward.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Produce artwork for integrated campaigns, manage the production process, and work with external suppliers.
2. Oversee the entire design process. From concept development to execution, ensure every design element aligns with our brand identity and resonates with our audience. Implement efficient workflows, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality assets.
3. Contribute to the digital content production team and collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business.
4. Uphold our high-quality standards, ensuring all designs surpass project briefs and align with our brand guidelines.
5. Monitor the performance of our design campaigns, reporting on key metrics, and optimizing strategies for continuous improvement.
6. Lead digital design projects across multiple channels, including website, landing pages, emails, social media and display ads.
7. Develop and maintain brand consistency across all marketing channels.
8. Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
9. Project manage design projects with tight deadlines, ensuring timely delivery.
10. Quality control all design output across the Fastmarkets marketing team.

KEY INTERFACES

1. Marketing
2. Commercial Teams
3. Editorial

Qualifications

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and has 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.

1. 5+ years of experience in design, preferably in a marketing or agency environment: minimum 5 years’ experience in B2B marketing.
2. Experience in commodity markets, particularly metals, agriculture, and forest products, is preferred.
3. Excellent graphic design and storytelling skills.
4. Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
5. Proficiency in creating multimedia content, including data visualization, video, and interactive designs.
6. Strong understanding of design principles, color theory, typography, and brand consistency.
7. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Figma, and other design tools.
8. Proven ability in data-driven decision making, using data to inform content creation and marketing strategies. This includes analyzing performance metrics to optimize content and improve engagement.
9. Collaborative team player, able to work effectively with various stakeholders across the company.
10. Experience working with marketing agencies and central resources to deliver campaigns.
11. Experience in building an effective design strategy and operation.
12. Fluent in marketing measurements and able to set SMART goals, plan, report, and optimize design campaigns.

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:

1. METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance.
2. ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done.
3. GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency.
4. 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.
5. CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do.
6. COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalize 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.

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