Commodity Trading Manager (Expatriate) at IGIT Shipping and Logistics Company

Salary:                        Highly Attractive
Reports To:               Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer.
Job Responsibilities

• Establish, maintain, and grow customer relationships by engaging customers and learning about their businesses, including their marketing strategy, needs, and prospective added-value.
• Timely accurate contract entry
• Train, coach and direct team members on merchandise handling, shipment processing, merchandise presentation and visual techniques as needed.
• Presentation of marketing strategies and products to customers using working knowledge of commodity market fundamentals and trading principles.
• Managing the logistics surrounding grain origination and merchandising
• Strong communication with fellow merchants and the commercial team regarding local market conditions to build merchandising strategies and identify trading opportunities.
• Sound market knowledge and product-fit.
• Capture commodity price information and product price assessments
• Develop and expand coverage of associated commodities
• Develop, expand and maintain sources and contacts relevant to the market area of coverage
• Building and maintaining a database of customers
• Operating for growth of the company’s brand on the company’s commodity market place.
• Build and maintain in-stock rate, pricing, promotion, and management review.
• Develops and maintains analytics dashboards.
• Closely monitors competitors’ action and develop strategies to grow the company’s market share.
• Regularly evaluate the health of the markets, proffer cross-functional solution(s) to enable struggling markets to succeed.
• Set weekly, monthly and quarterly target and effectively communicate the target to relevant stakeholders.
• Recommend and justify exit from any market (if required).
• Operate in a fast-paced environment, think creatively, analytically, and effectively use data to drive commodity and other strategic decisions.

Skills and Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management, Marketing or other related fields.
• Masters’ degree is desirable.
• Broad knowledge of finance or agriculture is essential.
• Experience in commodity merchandising, purchasing or trading.
• Verbal and written skills with the ability to present in a large group setting are desirable.
• Knowledge of merchandising practices and flexible contract pricing methods
• Analytical, problem-solving and multi-tasking abilities
• Leadership experience, preferably in managing a large network of partners
• Ability to measure impacts and benchmarks.
• Highly analytical, organized, detailed-oriented, communicative and collaborative.
• Ability to relate to the needs of the growers work with a wide variety of teams and suppliers.
• Experienced with craft, research, data collection, data analysis and financially efficient means of growing the company’s business and profits
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced with dynamic business priorities.

• Leadership experience preferably in managing a large network of partners
• Expertise in Microsoft office suites.
• Project management and financial projections skills

Note: Candidates from India are highly encouraged to apply.