Marketing Assistant

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

The Role

The Marketing Assistant provides campaign execution and operational support to a Marketing Manager across the Fastmarkets Events portfolio. The role supports the delivery of integrated marketing campaigns designed to grow audience reach, engagement and delegate bookings.

Working closely with the Marketing Manager, the Marketing Assistant coordinates day-to-day campaign activity across channels, supports marketing communications and content delivery, maintains accurate campaign and audience data, and tracks performance against agreed objectives. Using campaign results and audience insights, the role helps identify opportunities to improve targeting, engagement and conversion.

Principal Accountabilities

Campaign execution

• Execute community marketing campaigns – across delegate, speaker and exhibitor/sponsor groups – to improve reach and grow delegate bookings.
• Execute email marketing campaigns for the assigned Fastmarkets events.
• Conduct media partner outreach and fulfil agreed partnership commitments, ensuring activity is delivered effectively to support delegate acquisition.
• Update and optimise event websites with fresh, relevant content that strengthens event positioning and encourages delegate bookings.
• Support the delivery of promotional activity across social media, PR and other relevant channels, including creating and scheduling content.

Operational support

• Maintain and update competitor research.
• Coordinate audience research and data updates, supporting data sourcing where required.
• Maintain event campaign reporting, including quick access to registration and email performance reports.
• Produce ad hoc data and campaign reports to support the Marketing Manager’s analysis.

KEY INTERFACES

• Marketing Manager, Events (line manager)
• Event marketing team
• External suppliers (Gleanin; Datamatics)
• Delegate and SPEX sales teams
• Customer services team
• Media partners

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience: 1 – 2 years’ work experience in an office environment (including virtual) would be preferable but this role could suit a bright, self-motivated person who is looking for their first step on the career ladder
• Education: Educated to degree level, preferably in marketing, business or languages.

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 has a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player who works closely with a Marketing Manager is also important as well as being happy to work flexibly.

• Fluent in English & Bulgarian
• Self-motivated and goal-focused
• Deadline-driven
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise
• Razor-sharp attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Confident and personable
• Computer literate (Excel & Word as standard – full training will be given on our other software systems)
• Knowledge and experience working with AI platforms (a plus)

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.

Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets

We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.

Specific benefits may vary by country and role.

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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