Product Manager

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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 Product Manager is a newly defined role that will take on end-to-end ownership of individual product offerings within our product portfolio. This position presents a unique opportunity to drive innovation in our existing and new products, aligned to Fastmarkets' strategic goals.

As a contributor in our cross-functional squads, you will collaborate closely with Tech, Data, and Design contributors, ensuring that your insights and expertise shape the development process and our commercial propositions. You will also be responsible for mentoring and supporting early tenured Product Managers excel in their roles. This role is critical to the next stage of our growth, providing exposure to cutting-edge technologies, including Generative AI. If you are passionate about driving product excellence and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market research to understand trends, customer behaviour, and competitive dynamics. Utilize insights to inform product strategy and roadmap development, working closely with the Product Director

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyse complex data sets to extract actionable insights. Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess product performance and make informed recommendations for improvements.

• Strategic Roadmap Development: Define and execute the product roadmap in alignment with the company's vision and objectives. Utilize strategic thinking to prioritize initiatives effectively.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and content (editorial, analytics) teams to ensure successful product development and launch. Foster open communication to align on goals and deliverables.

• Customer Engagement: Engage with customers through interviews, surveys, and feedback sessions to validate product concepts and gather insights on user needs and pain points.

• Problem Solving: Employ creative problem-solving skills to address challenges throughout the product lifecycle. Innovate solutions that enhance user experience and product functionality.

• Leadership & Initiative: Lead cross-functional teams by motivating members and driving alignment towards common objectives. Take initiative to identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
• Forecasting & Measurement: Develop forecasts for product direction based on market analysis. Measure progress against goals, adjusting strategies as necessary to ensure success.

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.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of 6-7 years of experience in product management or related roles within a B2B environment. Proven track record of successfully launching and managing products throughout their lifecycle.
• Market Acumen: Strong understanding of market trends relevant to our business, including macro-economic trends, commodities market trends, customer segments and emerging technologies.
• Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Excel) with experience interpreting complex data sets to derive insights.
• Product Management Methodologies: Familiarity with modern product management practices (e.g., Agile, Lean) and principles from industry leaders.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
• Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical thinking with a proactive approach to identifying challenges and developing innovative solutions.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated experience in leading high-performing teams. Exceptional mentoring abilities with a focus on developing talent within the organization.

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.

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