Commodities Volatility Trader

IMC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global trading firm in London is building a trading initiative focused on commodities options. The role involves maximizing revenue through strategic decision-making and developing market-making strategies. Candidates should have over three years of experience in commodities markets, a strong quantitative background, and be proficient in Statistics and Python. This position offers significant responsibility and the chance to shape the desk's strategy within a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in Commodities markets.
• Ability to act in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong analytical and reflective skills.

Responsibilities

• Maximize revenue through mispricing identification.
• Manage risk and develop market making strategies.
• Drive strategies forward with ownership.

Skills

Commodities market experience

Quantitative mindset

Strong technical skills in Statistics

Strong technical skills in Python

Risk management

Communication abilities

Teamwork abilities

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in STEM

Job description

We're building out a trading initiative in London, with a growing focus on listed commodities options. This expansion is supported by a mix of internal talent and experienced external hires. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, the team offers a unique opportunity to help shape and scale a new desk from an early stage.

The group combines deep expertise with broad trading experience and values innovation, ownership, and cross‑functional collaboration. As the desk continues to grow, there will be increasing opportunities to take on broader responsibilities and contribute meaningfully to its success.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Maximize revenue by identifying and monetizing short‑ and long‑term mispricing’s, as well as managing the resulting positions.
• Be able to take lots of responsibility and ownership early in your time here to drive the strategy forward.
• Managing risk and developing market making strategies.
• You will have lots of responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful.
• IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of data‑driven analysis, quantitative modelling and algorithm development.

Your skills and experience

• 3+ years’ experience in Commodities markets.
• BS, MS, or PhD, preferably in STEM.
• You have a quantitative and strategic mindset and a healthy appetite for risk.
• Strong technical skills in Statistics and Python.
• You have a proven ability to act and make decisions in a fast‑paced and competitive environment.
• You are analytical, passionate about reflecting on past trades, and always seeking to do better.
• Experience with managing risk and developing market making strategies.
• Product experience is preferred.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting‑edge research environment and a world‑class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high‑performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

At IMC, we understand the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion, and are committed to continually improving this in our recruitment process. As part of our commitment, we have added an additional question below, to better understand our candidates, and focus our marketing, sourcing and interviewing efforts, to ensure equitable outcomes. This question is voluntary, and the information you provide will only be used for the purpose stated above and will not be shared with interviewers in the application process. If you do not wish to provide a response to the question, there will be no adverse impact on your application.