Associate Trader

Summary:

Join a collaborative and innovative team of entrepreneurial individuals transacting in both physical and financial markets with a common goal to supply customers with low-cost products and generate EBITDA in a challenging, fast paced environment.

Core Responsibilities:

* Participate in physical trading strategies, both spot and term, in pursuit of both optimal system supply and trading profits.

* Develop trading strategies, initiate and manage physical and financial positions for profit, focus on supply portfolio, manage price exposure for system and trading positions, and proposes relevant risk management and hedging strategies.

* Accountable for optimization of supply for retail system requirements and for book trading positions profit/loss.

* Collaborates with commercial operations to manage physical inventories consistent with supply requirements and financial market structure. Represents the company externally and requires an extensive network of 3rd party contacts.

* Seeks out and identifies trading opportunities. Embeds optionality to reduce exposure in trading positions and trade books, interprets financial information, integrates information from a variety of sources, detects trends, associations, and cause/effect outcomes.

* Negotiates contracts both short and long-term. Builds relationships, manages third parties and internal relationships, develops contacts and gathers relevant market information.

* Participates in setting strategic plan for supply & trading team and provides leadership role to other commercial functions.