Senior Consultant (Hybrid)

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate eager to help leading companies and market participants by delivering custom consulting engagements that enable our clients to thrive in volatile commodity markets.

The Senior Consultant will focus on leading and delivering custom consulting and research projects that span the agriculture, forest products and metals, mining and minerals industries. Specifically, you will lead and deliver projects that include tailored market overviews and outlooks, feasibility assessments and analysis, industry cost modelling and analysis, supply-chain mapping and material sourcing strategies, and other bespoke engagements.

You will be joining a dynamic global team dedicated to analysing and forecasting agriculture, forest products and metals, mining and minerals markets. You will leverage Fastmarkets’ existing data, insights and analyst team as an integral component of our consulting delivery.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment, have a can-do attitude and can juggle a wide variety of tasks and projects.

Responsibilities

• Winning, executing, and project managing (both independently and in collaboration with our delivery teams) a range of commodity-related market consultancy projects across agriculture, forest products and metals commodity verticals.
• Managing the development and delivery of consultancy projects with a strong onus in meeting client time deadlines in providing strategic, due diligence, and general market/price forecasting services to major global commodity-related clients 
• Managing and supporting consultancy deliverables (self-sufficiently and managing others) that is robust, accurate, and well-researched and project managing resources utilizing modelling, data collection, and research interview techniques 
• Developing and supporting sales strategies to execute effective implementation of sales methodologies
• Developing and building existing customer relationships and acquiring new consultancy customers, as well as repeat business
• Willingness to be responsible for the complete sales cycle (end-to-end) when needed
• Processing of tenders both independently and in cooperation with our delivery teams
• Creating "customized" detailed pitch decks and individualized offers utilizing strong technical knowledge of the commodity markets
• Forecasting and CRM reporting
• Participate in events and sales/marketing activities with a focus on existing and potential client business opportunities
• Utilize professional network to surface opportunities and to source independent contractors to support delivery of engagements.