Meal Merchant Trainee

Louisdreyfuscompany; Claypool (IN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Louisdreyfuscompany is seeking a trainee merchandiser for soybean meal at a large processing facility in Indiana. You will work with customers to outline logistics requirements and coordinate truck shipments from the plant, supporting SHP and SBM shipments.

You will maintain daily contact with buyers, assist with accounting, identify backhaul opportunities, monitor market outlook, and help settle quality claims while building supplier relationships and learning Compuweigh and the MyLDC portal.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Agricultural Economics, Finance, Business Administration or other business discipline.
• 1-3 years in the grain business in a merchandising capacity.
• Experience arranging freight logistics and dispatching trucks.

Responsibilities

• Merchandises soybean meal produced at a large soybean processing facility.
• Maintains daily communication with buyers to coordinate logistics services and assists with accounting issues.
• Works with soybean origination team to maximize backhaul opportunities.
• Defines and updates team regularly with merchandising and pricing strategy as well as SHP/SBM market outlook.
• Reviews the daily position to confirm accuracy & follows up with customers to ensure timely payment of invoices.
• Stays up to date on competitive landscape through regular engagement with peers & end users.
• Signs up new farmers with LDC using the MyLDC customer portal.
• Works with soybean meal and soy hull pellet customers to address, evaluate and settle quality claims.

Skills

Logistics coordination

Freight dispatching

Customer communication

Accounts receivable

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics

Tools

Compuweigh

MyLDC portal

Job description

Overall Purpose and Objective of Position

This position serves as a trainee merchandiser for soybean meal produced at a large soybean processing facility. Individual works with customers to outline logistics requirements and manages coordination of truck SBM shipments from the plant and supports the coordination of SHP shipments.

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Merchandises soybean meal produced at a large soybean processing facility
• Maintains daily communication with buyers to coordinate logistics services and assists with accounting issues
• Works with soybean origination team to maximize backhaul opportunities
• Defines and updates team regularly with merchandising and pricing strategy as well as SHP/SBM market outlook
• Reviews the daily position to confirm accuracy & follows up with customers to ensure timely payment of invoices
• Stays up to date on competitive landscape through regular engagement with peers & end users
• Signs up new farmers with LDC using the MyLDC customer portal
• Works with soybean meal and soy hull pellet customers to address, evaluate and settle quality claims

Additional Responsibilities

• Answer phone calls and provide merchandising services to farmers. Gathers news, statistics and information related to individual commodity supply and demand from customers and trade sources, and distributes that information to the remainder of the group to support overall strategic trading/positioning ( i.e. , contributes to research function).
• Helps manage receivables and facilitates innovative methods to keep accounts receivable and average number of days to pay at a minimum.
• Identifies, qualifies and captures new business; develops and contributes to customer/supplier list.
• Assists other team members when needed (soybean origination team, soybean meal merchandising team, etc.)
• Works closely with soybean receiving office, learns Compuweigh and probing / grading operations.
• Occasionally communicates with truckers/suppliers regarding quality.
• Weekend work.
• Customer visits.
• Crop tours.
• Other duties as assigned

Education/Professional Certifications/Licenses

Basic qualification:
Bachelor's degree in Economics, Agricultural Economics, Finance, Business Administration or other business discipline.

Experience

Basic qualifications:
1-3 years in the grain business in a merchandising capacity
Experience arranging freight logistics and dispatching trucks

Preferred

Experience with rail logistics and a familiarity with the eastern rail market

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (including any physical demands)

Basic qualifications