Policies and Scenarios Manager in London

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 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.

The Role

This is a senior role within the Analytics organisation, responsible for building and leading a new cross-cutting capability that connects economic, trade and regulatory policy, and forward-looking scenario development to Fastmarkets’ commodity markets and benchmarks. The Team Manager: Policy and Scenarios will shape a product portfolio spanning policy intelligence, energy transition and cross-commodity scenarios. The role is accountable for developing commercially successful, repeatable products that are relevant across Fastmarkets’ commodity verticals.

Principal accountabilities

• Build and lead a cross-cutting policy, scenarios, and economic analysis capability that serves all Fastmarkets commodity verticals.
• Develop and own a portfolio of commercially viable, repeatable analytics products in the areas of trade and regulatory policy intelligence, energy transition, and cross-commodity scenario analysis.
• Establish and maintain a consistent set of economic and policy scenarios and assumptions for use across Fastmarkets’ commodity forecasting teams, improving coherence and quality of analytical outputs.
• Identify and communicate cross-commodity transmission effects from policy, macro, and geopolitical developments, providing insights that individual commodity teams cannot produce independently.
• Apply microeconomic and competition frameworks to commodity market analysis, including market structure, pricing dynamics, trade distortions, and regulatory intervention.
• Define and execute the commercial strategy for the function’s products, working with Product and Commercial teams to ensure outputs are positioned effectively within Fastmarkets’ bundling architecture and contribute to revenue growth.
• Represent Fastmarkets externally as a thought leader on policy, energy transition, and scenario topics, including client engagements, conferences, webinars, and media.
• Support consulting activity by contributing to or leading engagements where policy, scenario, or economic expertise adds value.
• Build, develop, and manage a small team, setting priorities, maintaining quality standards, and scaling the function in line with commercial traction.
• Collaborate effectively with commodity sector teams, editorial, product, and commercial functions, establishing clear interfaces and ways of working.
• Contribute to the broader Analytics transformation, including new product development, operating model design, and strategic initiatives.

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.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Deep understanding of how policy, regulation, and economic frameworks shape commodity markets, including trade policy, energy transition, climate regulation, and competition dynamics.
• Significant experience (8+ years) in economic consulting, policy advisory, scenario development, or strategy consulting within commodities, energy, or related sectors.
• Track record of designing and building analytical offerings or practices from the ground up – whether within a consulting firm, policy institution, or commercial analytics provider.
• Experience in energy transition policy analysis, including climate scenarios, green commodities, or decarbonisation pathways, with the ability to connect these to commodity market fundamentals.
• Strong grounding in microeconomic and competition analysis, including market structure, pricing behaviour, trade distortions, and the impact of regulatory intervention on market outcomes.
• Experience working across multiple commodity markets or sectors, with the ability to identify cross-market linkages and second-order effects.
• Strong commercial awareness, with an understanding of how analytical products create and capture value.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a track record of representing an organisation to senior external audiences including institutional investors, policymakers, or C-suite clients.
• Experience leading or building small analytical teams, including setting direction, maintaining quality, and developing people.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment, working effectively across functions.

Behavioural competencies

• Strategic and forward-looking, able to anticipate policy and economic developments before they become consensus.
• Credible communicator, comfortable engaging with senior clients, industry audiences, and internal leadership.
• Commercially aware, focused on building products that deliver measurable client and business impact.
• Collaborative and able to influence across teams without relying on hierarchy, building trust through the quality and relevance of outputs.
• Proactive and accountable, with strong ownership of outcomes and a bias toward action.
• Adaptable and comfortable working with ambiguity, particularly in building a new function from the ground up.
• Intellectually curious, with a genuine interest in how policy, macro, and geopolitical dynamics reshape commodity markets.
• Committed to developing others, building team capability, and fostering a culture of analytical rigour and knowledge sharing.

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.

• 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.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets

We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based. Specific benefits may vary by country and role.

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.