Editorial summary

The company is seeking a Head of Grains Desk to lead physical trading operations across key origin and destination markets. The role involves establishing and expanding trading flows, originating and negotiating transactions, and building sustainable relationships with suppliers and customers. The ideal candidate will have strong network leverage, experience in trade lifecycle management, and coordination with various internal departments. The position offers a salary of 25,000.

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Job description

[This job id 25983 first appeared in Job-Q.com on 18 Aug 2026]

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and grow physical trading flows across approved origin and destination markets.
• Leverage existing supplier and customer networks to generate new trading opportunities.
• Independently originate and negotiate both purchase and sales transactions.
• Build sustainable relationships with suppliers, customers and key trading counterparties.
• Manage the complete trade lifecycle, including pricing, contracts, financing, shipment, documentation, collections and claims.
• Coordinate with treasury, trade finance, logistics, legal, insurance, quality, accounts and risk functions.
• Monitor commodity markets, trading routes and new business opportunities aligned with the company’s risk appetite.
• Take ownership of desk P&L, product-level profitability, trading margins, working-capital and execution costs.
• Manage counterparty, credit, inventory, foreign-exchange and price risks within approved limits.
• Maintain effective working-capital management and monitor receivables, inventory, exposures and potential losses.
• Maintain accurate pipeline, position, exposure and profitability reporting.
• Ensure compliance with KYC, sanctions, credit, legal and risk-management requirements.
• Develop the desk progressively and recommend additional resources based on established trading volumes and profitability.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of agricultural commodity trading experience.

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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