Oilseeds Trader
Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We are 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.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Trader for Cargill’s Grains and Oilseeds team will participate in trading and risk management of our regional cash activities and in remote selling to both new and existing customers. In this role, you will contribute to generating income and controlling risks by performing most routine or complex trading work.
Key Accountabilities
- Execute and monitor the short term trading strategies and books for a specific commodity, market or customer based on speculative and hedged positions.
- Coordinate trading efforts across the risk management trading desks to create joint product optimizations or swap opportunities that meet the multifaceted needs of our customers and our internal trading.
- Research and analyze various market inputs and opportunities in the marketplace to maximize margin.
- Collaborate with trade execution, finance, regional marketing team and credit manager to ensure efficient execution.
- Coordinate sales and marketing efforts with regional teams as well as other stakeholders across the enterprise.
- Reconcile profit and loss estimates and reports that require some interpretation of trading practices and procedures.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two to four years of related work experience
- Data Science fluency preferred
- Other minimum qualifications may apply
KEY BEHAVIORS
- Effectively build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
- Apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals.
- Make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Entrepreneurship spirit to build a systematic approach and build trading capabilities.
- Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
- Travel to meet with customers and suppliers.
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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