Senior Dairy Trader
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
This position is responsible for the dairy trading for Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Europe with the primary goal of serving our 7 European chocolate plants and maximizing the PnL. Within a well-defined set of risk limits you take positions, manage the operational margins and guarantee a smooth running pipeline in order to maximize the book’s PnL. The positions are a combination of physical product and futures. As such you aim for an optimal view on dairy futures, differentials and smaller illiquid product families. You bear end responsibility of the dairy market analysis that you will perform with the help of the second dairy trader. You stipulate the plan on the analysis and delegate this to the dairy trader and yourself. Besides the risk management role, this function contains a supporting/advising role towards our sales and external customers. You will serve as a back-up trader for other chocolate ingredients and will as well join the broader cocoa and chocolate trading teams in Schiphol.
Key Accountabilities
- Optimize our dairy position and creating PnL for our 7 EU chocolate plants (physical and futures)
- Optimize our supplier network
- Apply a deep comprehension of trading practices and procedures to develop and execute the long-term trading strategies and books for a specific commodity, market or customer based on speculative and hedged positions
- Monitor our team's profit and loss on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
- Independently handle and monitor higher trading positions and exposures
- Work with strategic brokers, customers and agents, as needed, to manage and monitor higher risk trading positions
- Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum 6 years of commodity trading experience. Experience in the physical and futures markets
- Be able to build an internal network within the business unit
- Self-starting / entrepreneurial
- Fluent in English
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional European languages (French/Spanish/Dutch/German) is a plus.
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.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargill
Cargill is committed to being an inclusive employer. Click here to find out more https://careers.cargill.com/diversity/
Dopasowywanie ofert pracy na LinkedIn
Znajdź swoje miejsce w firmie Cargill. Zaloguj się, aby połączyć swój profil LinkedIn, a my wykorzystamy Twoje umiejętności i doświadczenie, aby wyszukać dla Ciebie najodpowiedniejsze oferty pracy.
Zrównoważona uprawa kakao
Celem programu Cargill Cocoa Promise jest zapewnienie rozwoju sektora upraw kakao dla kolejnych pokoleń.
Integracja i różnorodność
Nasza integracyjna kultura pomaga nam kształtować przyszłość świata.
Życie w firmie
Cargill
Odkryj, jak można osiągnąć nadrzędny cel w ramach kariery w firmie Cargill.