Battery Raw Materials Consulting Analyst (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

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate eager to help leading companies and governments transition to a low carbon, sustainable future by delivering custom consulting engagements that enable our clients to navigate this change.

The Consulting Analyst – BRM will be a lead consultant within the battery raw materials team, focusing on leading and delivering custom consulting and research projects that span the battery raw material and energy storage markets. Specifically, you will lead and deliver projects that include tailored market overviews and outlooks, feasibility assessments and analysis, industry cost modelling and analysis, supply-chain mapping and material sourcing strategies, and other bespoke engagements.

You will be joining a dynamic global team dedicated to understanding the rapidly evolving energy transition and battery raw materials markets. You will leverage Fastmarkets’ existing BRM data, insights and analyst team as an integral component of our consulting delivery.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude and can juggle a wide variety of tasks and projects.

Principal accountabilities

• Scoping, executing, and project managing a range of BRM and battery-related market consultancy projects.
• Conducting new research and analysing and customising existing data (self-sufficiently and in collaboration with other subject-matter experts) that is robust, accurate, and well-researched.
• Developing and delivering compelling and impactful high-quality content and deliverables with a strong client focus.
• Ensuring consultancy projects are delivered on-time, and in-line with both client requirements, project scope and profit targets.
• Supporting and working closely with the sales team in bidding and winning consultancy and subscription engagements.
• Developing and building existing customer relationships to identify opportunities for repeat and new business
• Participating in events and sales/marketing activities with a focus on existing and potential client business opportunities.
• Utilising professional networks to surface opportunities and to source independent contractors to support delivery of engagements.

Behavioural competencies

The successful candidate will be proactive, pragmatic and resilient with a positive and flexible approach, focused on achieving results and the right outcome for a growing business.

• Is self-disciplined and takes pride in managing self to deliver agreed objectives.
• Personable with a preference for developing strong, collaborative working relationships.
• Demonstrates high personal energy and enthusiasm.
• A confident and inquisitive communicator who actively listens and questions – shows a growth mind-set and naturally curious.
• Demonstrates influence with humility – can provide advice and guidance without being a ‘knower’.
• Is collaborative and able to adapt own approach and style to the situation.
• Comfortable with ambiguity – where a pathway may not be clear, thrives in working through the challenge.
• Can balance requirements for analytical rigor with commercial imperatives of efficient, on time delivery.

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.

• 6+ years of consulting or related experience in commodities consulting and research.
• In-depth knowledge of battery market fundamentals and working knowledge of battery raw materials, battery chemistries and cells, and EV and ESS markets.
• Ability and experience in managing and conducting commodity market studies both independently and as a member of a globally distributed team.
• Experience in project execution/management involving single-client consultancy services work.
• Experience in project and client relationship management across varying market segments and customer profiles.
• Strong commercial focus.
• Fluent in English, a second language preferred.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel when required.
• An already established client and industry contact network would be desirable.
• Self-starter, with strong personal drive is essential, with the ability to thrive in a multitasking environment.
• Accountable and performance driven.
• Effective and confident communication in person, in written/slide format, and online.
• Effective and amiable team player keen on making clients, project members, and colleagues happy while achieving ambitious objectives.

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.