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Scope
The candidate’s role is to provide support to the team in establishing the Fertilizer Trade business in RtMI and to be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the new desk. The candidate would be reporting to the Senior Fertilizer Trading Manager, Corporate Development.
Responsibilities
- Physical Fertilizer Trading (30%)
- Develop relationships with fertilizer producers in China and Southeast Asia (SEA) to identify trading opportunities.
- Maintain customer relationships and manage existing business, including contract flows.
- Understand customer’s needs and develop solutions and strategies to address them effectively.
- Gain a detailed understanding of the fertilizer supply chain, including identifying challenges and concerns of customers across the value chain.
- Acquire strong knowledge of the raw material value in use, and the production process of intermediate and end products.
- Develop a deep understanding of the fertilizer raw material market and product market fundamentals, including trade flows.
- Business Development (30%)
- Engage with industry players, consultants and develop leads for strategic, structured investment and trading opportunities
- Conduct due diligence of assets and potential opportunities
- Work with corporate counterparties to understand their business and build financial models to evaluate assets and opportunities
- Work with internal colleagues to develop structured transaction solutions
- Travel regularly to meet with market participants and to industry conferences
- Conduct site visits of mine, end users for due diligence purposes
- Prepare explanation material, including reports and presentations to management and clients
- Market Research (20%)
- Build fundamental supply and demand model for fertilizer products
- Build up database of trade flow, mine supply and end demand
- Conduct research on including pricing, supply/demand forecasting, VIU, cost models, working
- Provide daily/weekly market reports
- Write monthly market analysis to management and senior management
- Prepare presentations for management on market conditions
- Conduct market analysis based on robust information and networks, to effectively provide market reports to the stakeholders.
- Develop multiple analytical models as well as databases by capturing information and insights from daily activities.
- Book Management (20%)
- Act as secondary support for the Senior Manager on fertilizer books.
- Execute derivatives execution when required.
- Contribute insights into cargo pricing considerations.
- Assist in managing derivatives operations.
- Maintain broker counterparty relationships.
- Provide analytical support to inform trading decisions.
- Assist in the management and refinement of the physical pricing database and models.
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business and international trade or relevant major.
- 3-5 Years of work experience in the finance industry, ideally in equity research, sales or corporate finance roles
- Experience working with corporate clients, preferably in China
- Good communication skills (Native/Fluent English and Native Chinese)
- Strong work ethics, ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects / deals.
- Collaborates well with others and possess strong interpersonal skills.
- Detail-oriented, systematic and organized.
Personal Attributes
- Team player, supportive and inclusive. Listen to feedback from others.
- Flexible and able to thrive in dynamic work environments.
- Honesty, integrity, and ability to accept critical feedback
- Logical
- Entrepreneurial
- Forward Thinking
- Strong work ethic
- Resourceful thinker
- Assertive
- Inclusive and a good team player
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Good listener
Environment / Working Conditions
- The candidate is based in an Office Environment but will be expected to travel often for business purposes.
- The candidate will be required to manage a few projects at one time.
- The candidate may be interrupted frequently to meet the needs and requests of employees.
Seniority level
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Mid-Senior level
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Finance and SalesIndustries
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