Associate Projеct Manager

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 Junior Project Manager (PM) will be responsible for leading the successful delivery of projects—primarily technical, but also non-technical—across Fastmarkets. Reporting to a Programme Manager, this role will work closely with product, business, and technology teams to ensure that project objectives are clearly defined, aligned with organisational strategy, and delivered to a high standard.
  The Junior Project Manager will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business needs and solution delivery. This includes managing the full project lifecycle from discovery and design through to implementation, testing, rollout, and post-go-live support. The role requires strong stakeholder management skills to engage with a wide range of internal and external partners, including business leaders, technical teams, and third-party vendors.
  The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to translate complex business and technical scope into actionable project plans, manage competing priorities, and drive outcomes in a dynamic environment. They will be adept at resolving issues and ensuring that risks are identified and mitigated early. They will be experienced and champion best practices in project governance, Agile delivery, and continuous improvement, contributing to measurable value for the business.
  The PM will be comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and they should be equally skilled at managing project plans, facilitating decision-making, and maintaining strong relationships across development, testing, product, and business teams. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering complex technology projects delivered by vendors

Principal Accountabilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage the delivery of assigned projects, ensuring milestones and deliverables are achieved on time and within scope

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, external vendors, and cross-functional teams to support project objectives

• Proactively identify, track, and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation and resolution

• Oversee third-party vendor and partner activities to ensure contractual obligations and quality standards are met

• Maintain robust project governance, including change control, documentation, and compliance with information security requirements

• Prepare and deliver clear, concise project status reports and updates for programme management and senior leadership

• Ensure all project documentation is up to date and accessible to relevant stakeholders.

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the project tea

•  Champion Agile principles and practices within project teams, adapting delivery approaches as appropriate for each project

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives

• Support backlog management and prioritisation in collaboration with Product Owners and business stakeholders.

• Encourage iterative delivery, regular feedback, and continuous improvement to maximise project value

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.

Fundamentals

• Excellent spoken and written English, is required, with the ability to produce clear, concise documentation for diverse audience · Strong business acumen in news, pricing, or commodities sectors is advantageous
• Demonstrable commercial experience as a Project Manager delivering both technology and business change projects across varied domains
• Proven track record of managing projects with third parties, including technology vendors and implementation partners
• Experience with large-scale data migration and integration projects
• Familiarity with, SaaS solutions, and Azure-based cloud infrastructure is highly desirable

General Skills

• Ability to operate effectively in diverse environments, adapting to different processes and stakeholder groups
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to produce high-
• quality documentation for both business and technical audiences
• Experience facilitating workshops, steering committees, and decision-making forums with senior stakeholders and vendors
• Skilled in change control, risk management, and ensuring delivery within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters
• Strong leadership qualities: inclusive, collaborative, approachable, and professional
• Ability to work independently, motivate teams, and drive accountability for outcomes
• Proactive in ensuring all deliverables are met, taking ownership of ambiguous tasks

Technology

• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, SaaS integrations, and information security/compliance requirements
• Experience working in hybrid Waterfall and Agile environments; Scrum Master experience is a plus
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, and Miro

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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.