Senior Cocoa Trader
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Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.
Job Purpose and Impact
As a Senior Cocoa Trader, you will be a key member on Cargill’s global cocoa trade desk, in Amsterdam. This is an integrated desk, bearing responsibility for both the sourcing of cocoa beans for Cargill’s global processing facilities, and Cargill’s trading and risk management activities on the futures markets.
You will play a pivotal role in Cargill’s risk management of cocoa, hedging our physical cocoa bean and cocoa product flows on the futures and options market. You will be expected to bring trading ideas to generate revenues from proprietary positioning in the options and futures markets and/or you will be responsible for cocoa sourcing from a specific origin.
Key Accountabilities
- Execute and monitor the short-term trading strategies + optimize commercial flow hedging
- Contribute to our proprietary trading & risk management for derivative (incl. hedging) department
- Track customer and competitor activity and industry trends and advise internal and external stakeholders
- Manage Cargill’s cocoa sourcing book in some origins in West Africa/Latin America
- Grow sustainable and responsible sourcing network
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 4 years of related work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree, preferably (business) economics, maths, physics, finance
- Minimum of 5 years of trading experience
- Trading /merchandizing skills, preferably commodities (futures & physical), but also possible equities, forex, derivatives
- Fluent in English and preferably French or Spanish
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
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