Trade Analyst (Coffee) at Epic Business Resources Ltd ( April 2024) : Open Jobs

TRADE ANALYST [ COFFEE ]

Sector: Agriculture /Coffee Trading

Job Purpose

Man trading desk, providing trade support, tracking records and risks in sourcing and sales; this include contract administration, execution, and monitoring of performance of internal department that affect the results achievement

Responsibilities

• Provide coffee trading support covering a wide range of activities including commercial, accounting, financial, quality, legal and logistics activities
• Establish strong relationships with existing customers and industry contacts.
• Alongside the Trader, manage the sourcing, sales and sales administration, contract entering, price fixations, daily position management and any other duty assigned by the manager
• Closely monitor crop and ensure adequate communication with customers and suppliers to ensure adequate execution of our sales, purchases and overall strategy
• Assist on the cost monitoring of our sourcing strategy and to proactively suggest adjustments and creatively suggest ways to improve the way we manage, report, and monitor our sourcing risk
• Work closely with the quality department to ensure sourcing and sale strategy is executed properly
• Work closely with the logistics department to ensure smooth contract execution and monitoring. Additionally provide them with adequate resources and information to execute our contracts
• Work closely with the sustainability team and data analyst to ensure all reports needed by the GM, the research team and clients are done on time to support overall trade strategy
• Prepare and deliver daily, monthly, and ad hoc reports including the position and fixations and other reports as requested by the management
• Assist with preparation of coffee trading budgets as well at the monthly follow up as requested
• Monitor our inventory and risk matrix items that generate a PnL and report them across the organization
• Ensure ultimate integrity of the system we operate and ensure adequate approvals prior performing sensitive adjustments to the system to ensure adequate position management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or related
• 3+ years’ work experience in a commercial, trading commodities or financial services organization
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Confident and articulate, able to communicate ideas clearly to a diverse audience (written & verbal)
• Commercially minded and able to identify business improvements and/ot opportunities
• Career focused and committed
• Clear thinker and an effective planner who can organize themselves and others
• Sets high personal standards, goal oriented, ambitious and able to maintain performance under pressure
• Collaborative and Inclusive while actively engage stakeholders, colleagues, and peers
• Determined, resilient and committed

APPLICATION

Submit well written CV to jobs@epicbr.co.tz before 20th Apr 2024