Position Summary
We are seeking an institutional-grade Senior Proprietary Grains Trader. This position is strictly focused on financial proprietary trading across global grains and oilseeds markets; there is no physical asset management, operational logistics, or commercial merchandising involved. The successful candidate will leverage deep fundamental knowledge gained from the ABCD trading houses and a proven track record of discretionary risk-taking to capture absolute return alpha. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, managing financial futures, options, and OTC derivatives curves within established risk parameters.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy Financial Capital Mandate: Formulate and independently execute high-conviction, directional, relative value, and cross-commodity spread strategies across global agricultural derivatives (e.g., CBOT, Matif).
- Translate Physical Insights into Financial Alpha: Utilize your deep understanding of global cash markets, freight dynamics, basis, and trade flows to anticipate dislocations in the futures curves ahead of the broader market.
- Macro & Micro Fundamental Modelling: Conduct along with our research team rigorous analysis of global balance sheets, regional supply/demand fundamentals, weather models, and macroeconomic factors impacting agricultural commodities.
- Portfolio & Risk Management: Own the end-to-end portfolio construction, managing capital allocation, daily Value-at-Risk (VaR), stress testing, and trailing drawdown limits.
- Market Intelligence Integration: Maintain and expand a premier institutional network of brokers, industry analysts, and commercial contacts to synthesize actionable real-time market insights.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of 7 years of successful trading experience within the grains and oilseeds space.
- Background: Must have foundational career experience working within large international trading houses (ABCDs or equivalents) managing cash books, coupled with subsequent or concurrent proprietary trading experience at a major trading house or hedge fund.
- Proven Track Record: A verifiable, consistent history of generating absolute returns (PnL) with an institutional-grade Sharpe/Sortino ratio and strict risk-mitigation discipline.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Agricultural Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
Preferred Attributes
- Absolute risk-management discipline with a proven history of managing capital through extreme commodity market volatility.
- Analytical capabilities with the ability to synthesize complex data points into cohesive, high-conviction trading opportunities.
- Strong professional reputation and impeccable compliance record.
