The Company
Golden Agri-Resources Europe & Americas (GAR) is part of Singapore based Golden-Agri Resources Ltd, which is one of the largest stock exchange listed global players in bulk commodity production and trading. The company was founded almost four decades ago, is family-owned and has pioneered in the field of sustainability years ahead of competition. Sustainability today has become a core business on itself, feeding populations globally whilst safeguarding the environment.
The group opened their European offices in 2015, making it still a young, ambitious and entrepreneurial company which has established year on year solid growth since the start. We are active in the trading of bulk commodities and oleochemicals in Europe and Americas.
GAR has offices in the Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, USA. Italy has been the newest brand office in Milan. We pride ourselves for being a well-established employer with competitive compensation and an entrepreneurial work environment. Our professionals are valued for being resourceful and finding opportunities to develop and grow the company further.
At GAR Europe & Americas we cherish and live up to our cultural of Integrity, Positive Attitude, Commitment, Continuous Improvement, Innovation and Loyalty.
We want to provide sustainable and superior quality agribusiness and consumer products, solutions and services to create value for all our stakeholders. Our main goal is to become a partner of choice in our markets as the best, fully-integrated, global agribusiness and consumer product company.
We have a driven team of approximately 110 people across Europe and the Americas and are now looking for a pro-active, positive-minded and entrepreneurial professional to join our team and help us further professionalize our company and grow our business.
Are you ready to join us on our mission? If so, please read further!
Profile
We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague with a broad scope of interests that is willing and able to support our current business; we are a young, ambitious and rapid growing company, active in the trading of various commodities and Oleo chemicals across the globe. We have offices in Singapore, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, USA and we are part of an international group, headquartered and stock exchange listed in Singapore.
GAR Brazil is looking for a Junior Trader with about 3 to 5 years’ experience in sugar trading and operations, as well as managing sugar positions. This team is responsible for origination, trade and distribution of agricultural commodities, mainly sugar. You will work in close cooperation with GAR sugar teams in Brazil, Singapore and the Netherlands. It will be your key responsibility to coordinate various reporting, financial and operational matters.
Tasks and responsibilities
* Create value for the company, take daily commercial decisions in line with the agreed trading game-plan.
* Support and assist senior traders on origination in Brazil and Central America
* Be in contact with global teams, especially in the Netherlands and Singapore, to ensure relevant information flows on commercial and operational levels
* Support and report futures hedging in NY and LDN futures exchanges on a daily basis
* Eventually execute and control FX hedges through NDF contracts
* Control provisional price payments with suppliers and buyers. Reconcile provisional price position with the trade control and management
* Prospect new clients and do cold calls to new potential buyers and suppliers
* Sell sugar with a focus on an assigned region/customer portfolio, ensuring adequate margins
* Create a long lasting and profitable relationship with customers and suppliers
* Proactively develop new customer relationship helping the company to increase volume of sales
* Manage and report the risk of your customers’ positions
* Have close contact with GAI market risk team in order to keep GAR’s counterparty risk controlled
* Liaise with counterparties on contract’s terms and conditions, verifying payments and coordinating claims; issue and control invoices and eventually NF’s (notas fiscais)
* Manage the received invoices and NF’s from suppliers in the system and organize the filing
* Prepare export memos (memorandos de exportaçao)
* Update commercial cash flow controls and eventually input payments in the system, prepare payment requests
* If required, assist logistics team in any export procedure/routines needed
* Coordinate in obtaining necessary approvals, follow-up on signatures and hard/soft copy document for filing afterwards. Develop and carry out an efficient documentation and filing system
* Prepare courier (DHL) packages and dispatch to clients worldwide, when required
* Managing relationships with various service providers
* Prepare management reports requested by local and international offices
* Be ready to learn international trade routines - execution and logistics - to prepare controls, issue international documents, helping colleagues working in those areas and to be able to cover them during vacation periods in the future.
Job requirements
* Bachelor/Master Degree in Business or equivalent with specialization in International Business, Economics or Supply Chain
* Relevant working experience in sugar trading is a pre or at least working experience in the commodity industry
* Proven skills in value creation / margin development
* Excellent English skills. Other language skills, such as French, Mandarin, Hindi are of great advantage
* Self-driven and results-oriented, able to evaluate risks and come up with concrete solutions
* Interest in international trade & agricultural markets
* Customer-oriented with strong networking skills
* Good analytical and negotiation skills
* PC literate in MS Office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Personality
* Good communication & interpersonal skills; ability to communicate professionally, verbally and in writing
* Humble approach, hands-on and curious
* Ability to execute in a fast-paced environment
* Ability to set priorities, handle tight deadlines and work well under pressure
* A team player and independent thinker
* Meticulous, accurate and hands-on
* Need to fit within a small, dedicated and committed team
* Self-starter, strong desire to create results, entrepreneurial
* Ability to learn with creativity/imagination
* Ability to adapt and work on a wider scope of tasks and challenges
* Good on working under pressure, Proactive and versatile.
What we offer
* We offer an entrepreneurial and international environment where developing opportunities for growth is valued
* Professional development of our employees is important to us, therefore we offer several training and development opportunities both locally as well as globally.
Please note that we often incorporate an assessment and reference checks in our selection procedures.