Forest Products Mill Intelligence Analyst (hybrid)

Forest Products Mill Intelligence Analyst (Hybrid)

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 join our team, assisting key industry producers and market participants by providing industry-leading forest products mill intelligence solutions, including manufacturing cost benchmarking and asset database products.

The analyst will be part of a dynamic global team of mill cost engineers and analysts responsible for delivering deep insights into global manufacturing technology and economics. You will leverage Fastmarkets data, networks and proprietary models to create powerful tools and analysis, enabling our customers to make the best decisions for their businesses.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, innovative global environment, exhibiting a customer-first attitude that can balance ongoing business needs with value-creating product development opportunities.

Principal responsibilities

• Deliver best in class manufacturing cost benchmarking analysis and mill asset through research, analysis, and proprietary modelling
• Contribute to Fastmarkets' "house view" on trends and relative performance in global techno-economic asset performance by grade, region, and process technology
• Provide regional insights in methodology development and refinement, including process economics, mill cost accounting, and unit cost resource assessment
• Support commercial teams in achieving strong customer relationships and industry recognition for mill intelligence services
• Provide insights for platform development needs and collaborate with product and technology teams to achieve based on market inputs
• Leverage mill intelligence capabilities to help deliver custom research reports and single client consulting studies
• Develop strong personal capabilities in all required coverage areas and competencies
• Maintain an ongoing knowledge base of best practices and competitive offerings within the global mill intelligence marketplace

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.

• Knowledge of pulp and paper industry technology and manufacturing economics with background in process engineering/ production, strategic consulting, and/or commodity research, targeting 2-5 years of experience
• Manufacturing experience in integrated pulp and paper operations with engineering background preferred.
• Strong acumen and desire for product development is essential
• Ability and demonstrated experience on cross-functional teams comprised of both technical and research-related resources
• Skilled in complex problem-solving with ability to synthesize disparate data streams into holistic facility analysis and estimates
• Experience in using and implementing AI technologies for data acquisition and automated model processing
• Fluent in English
• Flexibility and willingness to travel when required
• A personal forest products industry contact network is desirable
• Effective communication skills in person, in writing and during presentations

Behavioural competencies

• The successful candidate will be proactive, pragmatic and resilient with a positive and flexible approach, focused on achieving results and the right outcomes for a growing business
• Is self-disciplined and takes pride in managing activity to deliver agreed objectives
• Personable with a preference for developing strong, collaborative working relationships
• Demonstrates high personal energy and impact
• A confident and inquisitive communicator who actively listens and questions – shows a growth mind-set and is naturally curious
• Demonstrates influence with humility – is able to provide advice and guidance without being a 'knower'
• Comfortable with ambiguity – where a pathway may not be clear, thrives in adapting to work through challenges

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.