Director, Risk Management & Trade Product Control - APAC

Cargill; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in agricultural commodities is seeking a Trade Product Control Director to develop and implement their global trade product control strategy. Responsibilities include collaborating with senior leaders and managing service delivery for trading data and analytics. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree and extensive expertise in trade product control, with a minimum of six years experience. The position emphasizes leadership in a dynamic environment while ensuring compliance and effectiveness in trade operations.

Qualifications

• Broad and deep expert knowledge in trade product control.
• Confirmed experience in trade product control or adjacent function in a trading environment.
• In depth knowledge to leverage technology in operational, reporting and analysis processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the global trade product control strategy.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders on trading and risk management vision.
• Lead and develop a team of experienced professionals.

Skills

Leadership

Trade product control expertise

Technology leverage in operations

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Job description

Job Purpose and Impact

The Trade Product Control Director will develop and implement the global group strategy for delivery, specialization and differentiation of trade product control services to support the businesses on trading data and analytics and derivatives commodity compliance. In this role, you will partner collaboratively with senior leaders to lead the design of the group level trade product control standard services catalog to support trading including applying differentiated service model, evaluating and approving all exceptions to the standard design and providing expertise on technology solutions and data integrity.

Key Accountabilities

• Partner with the leadership team to lead the defined business group trade product control strategy in alignment with global strategy, providing expertise to develop the global vision for services delivery, define and govern the service catalog and develop a differentiated service strategy.
• Execute the business group trade product control strategy with continuous improvement, advising to develop key metrics and measurement for trade product control process effectiveness, evaluate the performance and leverage internal and external industry best practices.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders to identify and handle impacts of the implementation of trading and risk management vision.
• Partner with other trade product control leaders, business and trading leaders to evaluate and support the assessed needs within a differentiated service model.
• Build the key capabilities needed to execute against vision, perform gap analysis and talent capability growth or acquisition.
• Develop plans and deliver results in a fast‑changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Broad and deep expert knowledge in trade product control
• Confirmed experience in trade product control or adjacent function in a trading environment
• In depth knowledge to leverage technology in operational, reporting and analysis processes
• Minimum of six years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply