Strategic Markets Editor - Critical Minerals, Americas

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

The Strategic Markets Editor leverages deep expertise and experience in non-ferrous markets, including critical minerals, to help shape Fastmarkets’ PRA strategy in this area, driving the development of prices, market-leading content and industry engagement. The role produces high-value strategic content, builds senior market and political relationships and acts as an ambassador for the Fastmarkets brand. A pivotal role at the heart of Fastmarkets editorial, this is a highly collaborative leadership position without direct line management responsibilities.

• Identifies opportunities for and produces high-value strategic content, including insightful market reporting, in-depth analysis, interviews and commentary, to drive market engagement and strengthen Fastmarkets’ profile in critical minerals.
• Helps expand Fastmarkets’ presence and reputation in areas where the business aims to grow.
• Identifies opportunities for new price launches and product development, including helping to determine specifications, methodology and data submission pools.
• Builds trusted relationships with policymakers, regulators and other public-sector stakeholders to deepen market understanding and inform authoritative editorial coverage, while maintaining editorial independence and avoiding advocacy.
• Works with the broader business to plan market engagement and helps lead efforts to strengthen relationships with market participants, using Fastmarkets’ insight and expertise to deliver value to customers.
• Produces, coordinates and edits strategic content across markets in a joined-up way to maximise impact.
• Shares knowledge and feedback widely, guides and mentors reporters, strengthens market understanding across the team and helps colleagues build their own profile, while providing strategic and functional direction.
• Assesses and approves prices as required, helping to ensure all prices produced by reporters meet Fastmarkets’ and relevant regulatory standards.
• Aligns strategic content with marketing and across customer-facing channels, including editorial, events, client presentations and meetings.
• Strengthens Fastmarkets’ reputation for market-leading expertise and insight by serving as a brand ambassador at Fastmarkets’ and external events. This includes supporting the development of events, planning content, attracting high-profile speakers, speaking on stage and moderating panels.
• Helps raise Fastmarkets’ profile across external channels, including social media, to showcase expertise and build market interest.
• Key interfaces
• Reports to Editorial Director. Partners with other editors to define and plan priorities for strategic content and customer engagement.
• Engages with reporters and Editorial Enablement to guide and support a joined-up approach to high-impact strategic content.
• Collaborates to support Events team to grow delegate lists and create compelling agendas, maximising the reach and impact of content-led events.
• Aligns content strategy with the goals of the Marketing team, ensuring…