Junior Trader

The incumbent will be responsible for primarily delivering the IVC origination, imports and export strategy in the West Africa region, engaging closely with customers, internal commercial and research teams, to drive LDC's markets shares and insights in the region. Primary Responsibilities: • Perform physical trade operations with a focus on origination of palm oil products (CPO, CPKO) and identifying and optimizing trade opportunities based on import and export parity in West Africa. • Assist senior traders with bulk CIF Business flows into multiple West African countries and sales of packed products from downstream business. • Liaise with the sustainability team to ensure suppliers provide relative traceability info and comply with LDC's Global sustainability policy. • Ensure trade to cash process is implemented (validation of contracts, exchanges of futures, FX hedge for sales, collection of funds, collection of cargo in case of prepayment). • Follow execution of the program and assist in solving daily issues (interface with execution, freight team, STF and destination teams). • Conduct market analysis under Senior Trader's guidance, in coordination with the research team, develop and operate intelligence/trading tools (Price arb/competitiveness analysis, price analyses…). • Support prices analysis and S&D modeling, send out key market information, analysis, and updates to the platform (import and export line-ups for key origins, ad-hoc analyses, and reports). • Participate, under Senior Trader's supervision, in all the in-house and external commercial interactions. • Identifying trends and market developments, ensuring the exchange of information and the production of market and other reports.

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.