Posted on: 09 June 2024
ID 916508

Agricultural Trader

Job Description

Agricultural Trader - To grow and optimize desk performance and profitability through integrated and innovative product optimization, risk mitigation and enabling processes and technologies.

  • Macro Environment
    • Understand key competitors, global trends, industry dynamics and key macro environmental forces to analyze and identify desk opportunities and threats
    • Understand the impact of economic and fundamental indicators (Local and international Supply & Demand, Import & Export parity, exchange rates, emerging markets and global influences) to establish a best-fit position for the desk to effectively trade risk
  • Desk Profitability
    • Manage desk profitability in line with the desk mandates (including all relevant limits). This includes ensuring that profit and loss (P&L) positioning is reviewed and that submitted predictions are reliable
    • Develop and explore new markets and products to expand the current product offering to clients within the desks mandate
  • Client
    • Understand and stay close to the needs, wants, motivational perceptions and trading behaviors of desk client groups to ensure solution relevance
    • Provide new product offering according to clients needs where possible
    • Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints
    • Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
  • Internal stakeholders
    • Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue listen advise influence and negotiate to achieve win win outcomes
    • Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress manage expectations and ensure stakeholders requirements are delivered
    • Preserve relationships despite airing conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
  • Personal
    • Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
    • Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
    • Plan and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time frames and according to quality standards
    • Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities
    • Act in an ethical transparent and morally defensible manner including highlighting unethical practices
    • Share debate and communicate learnings
    • Flag and debate issues constructively
    • Promote a friendly cooperative climate
    • Requirements:
    • Minimum Qualification
    • Degree - BSc, BCom, with mathematics, agricultural economics, economics, or stats
    • Completion of required legal registrations - registered persons and JSE/SAFEX exams
    • Minimum years of experience: 5 - 10 years minimum in a similar role
    • Preferred Industry
    • Multinational agricultural companies
    Co-operations

    Banking

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    Job Details

    Application Closing Date

    18/06/24

    All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Groups Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

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