Editorial summary

The company is seeking a Head of Fertilizers to lead international physical fertilizer trading operations, focusing on establishing and expanding trading flows across approved markets. The role involves leveraging existing networks to identify new purchase and sales opportunities, building relationships with industry stakeholders, and managing the full trade lifecycle, including negotiations, contracts, logistics, and claims. The candidate should have strong expertise in fertilizer market trends, supply-demand dynamics, and transaction management across various shipping methods. The position offers a salary of 25,000.

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Job description

[This job id 26015 first appeared in Job-Q.com on 18 Aug 2026]

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and grow international physical fertilizer trading flows across approved markets.
• Leverage existing supplier and customer networks to originate new purchase and sales opportunities.
• Build and maintain relationships with producers, exporters, importers, distributors, blenders and institutional buyers.
• Negotiate and manage the full trade lifecycle, including pricing, contracts, financing, shipment, documentation, delivery, collections and claims.
• Manage bulk, break-bulk and containerised fertilizer transactions.
• Monitor fertilizer market trends, supply-demand conditions, seasonality, tenders, regulations, production costs and freight movements.
• Take ownership of desk P&L, trading margins, financing and working-capital costs, logistics costs, claims, credit losses and overall profitability.
• Manage counterparty, credit, inventory, price, freight and foreign-exchange risks within approved limits.
• Ensure efficient working-capital management and timely monitoring of receivables, inventory and trade exposures.
• Maintain accurate pipeline, position, exposure and profitability reporting.
• Ensure compliance with KYC, sanctions, anti-bribery, legal, credit and risk-management requirements.
• Build the desk progressively and recommend additional resources based on proven business volumes and profitability.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of fertilizer trading and merchandising experience.
• Strong understanding of fertilizer specifications, pricing, seasonality, freight, port operations, trade finance, documentation, insurance, quality claims and regulatory requirements.
• Strong understanding of commodity price, counterparty, credit, foreign-exchange, freight, inventory and execution risks.
• Experience in African or other import-dependent emerging markets would be advantage.

Applicants who possess for the above responsibilities are most welcome to apply. If you do not possess the above experience, your application will still be considered on individual merits and you may be contacted for other opportunities.

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