Grains Desk Lead: Physical Trading & P&L Ownership

career zoom pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Zoom is seeking a Head of Grains Desk in Singapore to lead and grow the physical grains trading business, owning P&L and building sustainable trading flows. The role requires hands-on origination, structuring, execution and risk management of physical transactions with established supplier and customer relationships.

The successful candidate will originate opportunities, negotiate contracts, and manage pricing, financing, shipment, documentation, delivery and claims, while maintaining

Qualifications

• Approximately 10+ years of physical agricultural commodity trading experience.
• Ownership of a profitable trading desk or book.
• Ability to originate both purchase and sale sides of physical transactions.
• Established relationships with credible suppliers and customers.

Responsibilities

• Establish and grow the physical grains business across wheat, maize/corn, and rice.
• Originate both purchase and sales opportunities.
• Negotiate and conclude contracts.
• Manage transactions through pricing, contracting, financing, shipment, documentation, delivery, collection and claims.
• Own the desk P&L and be accountable for realised trading margins, financing and working capital costs, freight/logistics, insurance, hedging, claims, credit losses and overall risk-adjusted profitability.
• Discipline in managing counterparty, credit, price, FX, inventory and execution risk, with emphasis on sustainable repeat business.

Skills

Grains trading

P&L ownership

Origination

Contract negotiation

Risk management

Freight & Incoterms

Job description

Career Zoom is seeking a Head of Grains Desk in Singapore to lead and grow the physical grains trading business, owning P&L and building sustainable trading flows. The role requires hands-on origination, structuring, execution and risk management of physical transactions with established supplier and customer relationships.

The successful candidate will originate opportunities, negotiate contracts, and manage pricing, financing, shipment, documentation, delivery and claims, while maintaining