Senior Commodity Trader — Cross-Country Truck Freight

Scoular; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans from day one

Incentive opportunities

401k match

Paid holidays

Wellbeing time off

Volunteer time off

Annual incentive

Job summary

Scoular in Overland Park, KS is seeking a Senior Merchant to interpret markets, formulate market opinions, and take risk/reward positions to generate revenue for the trade unit. The role focuses on building deep customer relationships with buyers and sellers, origin elevators, and end users.

The Senior Merchant mentors other Merchants, leads logistics planning, and ensures compliance with risk policies while managing positions and P&L inputs for the team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years merchandising experience.
• College degree in business related field or equivalent experience.
• Proven critical thinking skills and ability to drive strategy forward.
• Demonstrated exceptional customer service skills and relationship building capability.
• Proven ability to perform in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated aptitude in accounting and financial practices and procedures.
• Highly skilled in problem solving techniques

Responsibilities

• Assure that the trade unit is in compliance with all risk management policies.
• Assess market trends, key leading indicators and is proficient in the market.
• Review product supply and demand and formulate opinions related to the market to make trade decisions that create revenue for the trade unit.
• Manage a position or subset of the overall position for the business.
• Expected to have opinion on market everyday.
• Maintains Local/State/Country level S&D and utilize details to forecast & communicate changes to the broader team.
• Lead execution logistics planning and strategy. Includes fundamental knowledge of truck/rail execution and commodity arbitrage.
• Manage relationships with the freight providers.
• Arbitrage the position for optimal execution.
• Expected to problem solve in midst of execution and day to day execution issues.
• Engaged in our Organic SOP’s and report monitoring for compliance.
• Recruit customers and business that support the business unit’s business strategy.
• Develop and maintain the extensive and varied business relationships in the marketplace.
• Provide customers with accurate market information and answers to questions about their business transactions, such as settlements.
• Build effective, on-going interaction with both current and potential customers.
• Act as a front line negotiator for handling trading conflicts.
• Responsible for customer experience to ensure Scoular delivers a favourable customer experience (supplier, end user, carrier).
• Assist Trade Unit Manager in preparing monthly, quarterly, annual P&L estimates and forecasts for the trade unit.
• Manage daily position report for the trade unit.
• Accountable to maintain position limits, credit limits and in store inventories as defined by division leadership and trade finance.
• Coach/mentor Merchants on the team and give Merchandiser Assistants daily direction.
• Create/drive collaboration within the division and company.

Skills

Merchandising experience

Critical thinking

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Education

College degree in business related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Scoular in Overland Park, KS is seeking a Senior Merchant to interpret markets, formulate market opinions, and take risk/reward positions to generate revenue for the trade unit. The role focuses on building deep customer relationships with buyers and sellers, origin elevators, and end users.

The Senior Merchant mentors other Merchants, leads logistics planning, and ensures compliance with risk policies while managing positions and P&L inputs for the team.