Research Analyst

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.
Job Description
Job Purpose
To support Fastmarkets’ Forest & Agriculture products analytics and forecasting teams through high‑quality data collection, validation and research that underpins market analysis, forecasts and client‑facing products.
The Role
The Research Analyst – Forest & Agriculture & Agriculture Products is responsible for the collection, cleaning, validation and organisation of fundamental market data across Forest & Agriculture products markets. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the quality, consistency and reliability of the data used in Fastmarkets’ analysis, forecasts and commercial products.
You will join a global team of researchers and analysts focused on understanding evolving Forest & Agriculture products markets, including pulp, paper, timber and related value chains. The ideal candidate is detail‑oriented, proactive, and comfortable working across multiple datasets and priorities in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment.
Core Responsibilities
- Collect, clean, validate and maintain fundamental Forest & Agriculture products market data, including supply, demand, capacity, costs, trade flows and policy impacts.
- Conduct primary and secondary research to support datasets and market analysis.
- Maintain structured databases that support forecasting models and analytical outputs.
- Monitor regulatory, policy and market developments relevant to Forest & Agriculture products sectors.
- Provide data inputs and research support to analysts, economists and consulting teams.
- Contribute data, charts and written inputs to reports, presentations and events.
- Support continuous improvement of data quality, documentation and process repeatability.
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.
- Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline (economics, business, Forest & Agriculture, industrial manufacturing, engineering or related fields).
- Familiarity or interest in Forest & Agriculture products markets, industrial manufacturing or global commodity value chains.
- Understanding of fundamental economic and business analysis concepts.
- Experience in data acquisition through primary and secondary research, with the ability to critically assess data quality.
- Foundational analytical skills, including working with datasets, basic modelling and statistics.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications (Excel, PowerPoint).
- Comfortable working in a diverse, multicultural and global environment.
- Proactive, pragmatic and resilient with a flexible, problem‑solving mindset.
- Experience with business analytics or data tools is an advantage.
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.
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.
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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