Senior Manager, Green Coffee Trading

The J.M. Smucker Co.; Orrville (OH); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The J.M. Smucker Co. is seeking a Senior Manager, Green Coffee Trading to lead trading, sourcing strategies, and supplier/origin portfolios across a global coffee portfolio. You will shape risk management, performance, and continuity while guiding cross-functional execution and talent development.

Located in Orrville, OH, this hybrid role requires domestic and international travel as needed and a track record of turning volatile markets into practical, value-adding decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, finance, economics, agriculture, food science, or related field.
• At least 7 years of progressive experience in commodity trading, purchasing, strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, finance, or related commercial discipline.
• Experience leading complex supplier portfolios, negotiations, sourcing decisions, and cross-functional initiatives in a global supply environment.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret commodity market, financial, supply, quality, regulatory, logistics, and operational inputs and convert them into sound business decisions.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing others, with the ability to set clear expectations and build organizational capability.
• Strong communication, analytical, negotiation, stakeholder management, and execution skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

Responsibilities

• Lead trading and sourcing strategy for assigned green coffee materials, origins, suppliers, and commercial portfolios, balancing cost, risk, quality, service, and continuity objectives.
• Develop and execute origin, supplier, and portfolio strategies that strengthen supply resilience, improve competitiveness, and create sustainable long-term value.
• Monitor commodity markets, differentials, currencies, crop conditions, export flows, logistics, regulation, supplier dynamics, and emerging risks; translate these inputs into clear recommendations and actions.
• Lead commercial execution including supplier selection, negotiations, contracting, position management, exposure awareness, performance management, issue resolution, and escalation within established governance and approval authorities.
• Provide leadership-ready market perspectives, sourcing recommendations, risk assessments, scenarios, and trade-off decisions that support business planning and financial outcomes.
• Build and maintain relationships with cooperatives, exporters, importers, dealers, brokers, and other strategic partners across key coffee origins.
• Identify and advance origin development, supplier capability, diversification, and business continuity opportunities, including contingency plans for market, quality, logistics, regulatory, or geopolitical disruption.
• Partner with Planning, Execution, Operations, Quality, Research and Development, Sustainability, Finance, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, and Risk teams to align demand, supply, inventory, quality, and financial objectives.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving supply assurance, cost savings, working capital, quality resolution, innovation, compliance, supplier development, and process improvement.
• Lead, coach, and develop Green Coffee trading talent; establish clear accountabilities, create intentional role overlap, and strengthen succession readiness and organizational depth.
• Create standard work, documentation, market intelligence routines, governance, and performance measures that improve decision quality, execution discipline, and continuity across the Green Coffee organization.
• Demonstrate integrity, sound judgment, proactive risk management, and an enterprise mindset while operating in a highly volatile global commodity environment.

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Execution

Education

Bachelor's degree (business/supply chain/finance/economics/agriculture/food science)

Job description

Your Opportunity as the Senior Manager, Green Coffee Trading

As a critical commercial and supply leadership role within the Green Coffee organization, you will be shaping and executing trading, sourcing, supplier, and origin strategies for a complex global coffee portfolio. This position combines commodity market expertise, disciplined risk management, supplier and origin leadership, and cross-functional execution to strengthen supply assurance, cost competitiveness, quality performance, and long-term business continuity. The Senior Manager will assist in developing trading talent, translate volatile market conditions into practical business decisions, and help align decision rights across the physical coffee system to improve execution speed, manage trade-offs deliberately, and drive stronger financial outcomes for the enterprise.

Location: Orrville, Corporate Offices

Work Arrangements: Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 9 days a month, primarily during core weeks as determined by the Company; additional onsite presence and domestic or international travel may be required based on business needs.

In This Role You Will

• Lead trading and sourcing strategy for assigned green coffee materials, origins, suppliers, and commercial portfolios, balancing cost, risk, quality, service, and continuity objectives.
• Develop and execute origin, supplier, and portfolio strategies that strengthen supply resilience, improve competitiveness, and create sustainable long-term value.
• Monitor commodity markets, differentials, currencies, crop conditions, export flows, logistics, regulation, supplier dynamics, and emerging risks; translate these inputs into clear recommendations and actions.
• Lead commercial execution including supplier selection, negotiations, contracting, position management, exposure awareness, performance management, issue resolution, and escalation within established governance and approval authorities.
• Provide leadership-ready market perspectives, sourcing recommendations, risk assessments, scenarios, and trade-off decisions that support business planning and financial outcomes.
• Build and maintain relationships with cooperatives, exporters, importers, dealers, brokers, and other strategic partners across key coffee origins.
• Identify and advance origin development, supplier capability, diversification, and business continuity opportunities, including contingency plans for market, quality, logistics, regulatory, or geopolitical disruption.
• Partner with Planning, Execution, Operations, Quality, Research and Development, Sustainability, Finance, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, and Risk teams to align demand, supply, inventory, quality, and financial objectives.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving supply assurance, cost savings, working capital, quality resolution, innovation, compliance, supplier development, and process improvement.
• Lead, coach, and develop Green Coffee trading talent; establish clear accountabilities, create intentional role overlap, and strengthen succession readiness and organizational depth.
• Create standard work, documentation, market intelligence routines, governance, and performance measures that improve decision quality, execution discipline, and continuity across the Green Coffee organization.
• Demonstrate integrity, sound judgment, proactive risk management, and an enterprise mindset while operating in a highly volatile global commodity environment.

Minimum Requirements

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, finance, economics, agriculture, food science, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of progressive experience in commodity trading, commodity purchasing, strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, finance, or a related commercial discipline.
• Experience leading complex supplier portfolios, negotiations, sourcing decisions, and cross-functional initiatives in a global supply environment.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret commodity market, financial, supply, quality, regulatory, logistics, and operational inputs and convert them into sound business decisions.
• Experience leading, coaching, or developing others, with the ability to set clear expectations and build organizational capability.
• Strong communication, analytical, negotiation, stakeholder management, and execution skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• Deep coffee industry knowledge, including experience with green coffee origins, suppliers, physical trading, quality considerations, and global logistics.
• Prior consumer packaged goods or food and beverage experience.
• Experience with commodity risk management, budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and executive-level decision support.
• Master of Business Administration or an advanced degree in business, supply chain, finance, economics, sustainability, food science, agriculture, or a quantitative field.
• Experience building supplier capability, origin strategies, business continuity plans, and cross-functional operating processes.
• Ability to influence outcomes across functions and external partners without relying solely on direct authority.
• Comfort operating with urgency and discipline while navigating ambiguity, market volatility, and competing business priorities.

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.