Trader Customer Price Risk
Key Skills
Job Description
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
Position based in Schiphol, Netherlands. We will consider candidates to relocate.
This is a high profile role with significant opportunity to integrate with the leadership of both Cargill andcustomers. The role allows for hands on experience in growing a total business including futures/optionstrading, risk management, product development, sales, marketing, strategic pricing and PnL responsibility.Success in the role would meet the requirements of a significant risk management experience.
There will be travel of up to 20% in the position
Key Accountabilities
The position has three core responsibilities focused predominantly on customers of Cargill’s Eligible Oils business, while also supporting the broader Cargill Price Risk Solutions (PRS) team:
- Trading: Executing risk management strategies to hedge pricing agreements with selected customers, including providing market insights and trading futures, options, and customized OTC derivatives.
- Sales: Develop and maintain direct customer relationships by prospecting and selling Price Risk Solutions products and services to customers within the Eligible Oils segment.
- Commercial: Drive business development activities for Price Risk Solutions by strengthening customer partnerships, identifying growth opportunities, and expanding long-term revenue streams while positioning Cargill as a trusted advisor and industry leader in risk management.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a relevant subject area or relevant work experience in place of a degree
- Risk management or trading or cash commodity management
- Futures, options and advanced derivatives knowledge
- Fluency in English, additional European languages are considered an asset.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong customer focus with the ability to understand and address the diverse risk management needs of customers across the edible oils and agricultural commodities value chain.
- Ability to manage complexity and work effectively in ambiguous and rapidly changing market environments.
- Demonstrated success working within multicultural and geographically dispersed teams, while fostering collaboration.
- Self-motivated and entrepreneurial mindset with a proven track record of business development and commercial growth.
- Strong teamwork skills.
- Excellent consultative selling, negotiation and influencing capabilities.
- Product and market knowledge of edible oils, oilseeds, vegetable oils, and related agricultural commodity markets, including the various risk management solutions available to manufacturers, industrial customers and producers
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.
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Core Responsibilities
The role involves executing risk management strategies through futures, options, and OTC derivatives while managing customer pricing agreements. Additionally, the incumbent will drive business development by prospecting new clients and strengthening existing partnerships within the edible oils segment.
Requirements
Candidates should possess a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in risk management, trading, or commodity management. Strong knowledge of futures, options, and advanced derivatives, along with excellent consultative selling and negotiation skills, is required.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Career development opportunities
About Cargill
Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Cargill is a family company committed to nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. With over 158 years of experience, 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. Whether it’s making alternative proteins for food manufacturers or helping farmers raise healthier animals with AI, we put as much care into how things are sourced as what we provide. We put people first. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.