Editorial Operations Specialist (12 month fixed-term contract)

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.

We are seeking a Editorial Operations Specialist on a 1 year fixed-term contract who will enable Fastmarkets’ price reporters to deliver crucial business intelligence by ensuring that all our value-added content meets the high standards that make Fastmarkets a world-leading commodities data price-reporting agency (PRA); seeking to continuously improve editorial tasks and processes; and contributing to the development and delivery of training material and exercises.

• Edit copy swiftly without compromising on accuracy, consistency and compliance with regulatory oversight, ensuring consistent quality and expert tone everywhere.
• Help reporters deliver content that is rich in market intelligence and added value, enabling our customers to gain the competitive edge they demand.
• Ensure all content is clear, error-free, well-written and engaging, minimizing corrections and removing libel.
• Use AI and other technologies to enhance content creation and bring efficiencies to editorial workflows.

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.

• 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.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills and an ability to judge if, where and how content needs to be edited.
• The ability to react quickly and intelligently to copy-handling demands across multiple channels and subject matters in a fast-paced, digitally driven, global newsroom.
• Curious about using AI and other technologies in content generation and editorial processes.
• An affinity for working with data.
• Excellent communication and social skills, particularly in delivering feedback to writers and editors around the world on their copy.
• A cool head when tasks are stacking up and a problem-solving mindset, including knowing when and how to enlist the help of colleagues and managers.
• Experience of working or studying remotely as part of a team.
• Comfort with extended periods of focus at a computer screen.
• Evidence of commitment and achievement relevant to the role.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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.

• 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.