Agricultural Trader

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa FirstRand Full time
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 bestfit 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 desk's 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: years minimum in a similar role
  • Preferred Industry
  • Multinational agricultural companies
  • Cooperations
  • Banking
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Job Details

Application Closing Date

18/06/24
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